{"id":12565,"date":"2022-11-21T03:54:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T03:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=12565"},"modified":"2022-11-21T03:54:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T03:54:25","slug":"arboretum-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/21\/arboretum-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Arboretum Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brother Tim and I renewed our family autumn arboretum walk tradition last weekend. We had a glorious, sunny day and there was a lot to see and many seeds followed us home.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tim surprised by hardy palm trees!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Gorgeous Stewartia trunk and leaves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Camellia flower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Camellia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Camellia in full bloom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Camellia flower close-up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Styrax obassia\u2013very cool trunk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Lots of fall foliage colors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Stewartia flower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Fantastic Cyclamen leaves and pretty flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I think Nerine sarniensis, the Guernsey Lily.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Lovely view of maples and others.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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As we left, we spotted this hardy Scheflerra, usually a tropical species, blooming late and spectacularly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The light was beautiful on the autumn-flushed leaves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I planted all the seeds that followed me home in pots this weekend to scarify them and see what comes up in the next year or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of my tonsai starts came from similar annual trips. And this rose, with which I have a love\/hate relationship, came from an arboretum seed decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a robust and maleficent marauder, seeding around my garden and likely others, but it has beautiful, cheerful hips in the fall.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brother Tim and I renewed our family autumn arboretum walk tradition last weekend. We had a glorious, sunny day and there was a lot to see and many seeds followed us home. I planted all the seeds that followed me home in pots this weekend to scarify them and see what comes up in the … Continue reading Arboretum Walk<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12590,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12565\/revisions\/12590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}