{"id":8234,"date":"2020-07-09T05:29:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T05:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2020-07-09T05:29:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T05:29:49","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-189-cornus-sericea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/09\/plant-a-day-2020-day-189-cornus-sericea\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 189) Cornus sericea"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Native to this area, I was happy to realize that one of the volunteer shrubs growing in the Douglas fir bed that I had pruned back each year, but hadn\u2019t eradicated, was this beautiful species.  This plant has beautiful leaves with intricate veins, subtle flower umbels, and white berries in the fall.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My plant first appeared six or so years ago, but I pruned it very heavily until this year.  It is showing its potential now, as I embrace it as a native Seattle shrub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cornus-2.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8235\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cornus-2.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8235\" class=\"wp-image-8235\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cornus-2.jpg?w=693 693w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cornus-2.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cornus-1.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8236\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cornus-1.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8236\" class=\"wp-image-8236\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cornus-1.jpg?w=693 693w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cornus-1.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I may have to make more room for this robust grower in 2020.  Likely, in the fall, I\u2019ll rearrange my native plants to give them all more room to spread out.  I\u2019ve also taken cuttings in late June that appear to be doing well\u2013I expect they\u2019ll root and be ready for potting on in another month.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native to this area, I was happy to realize that one of the volunteer shrubs growing in the Douglas fir bed that I had pruned back each year, but hadn\u2019t eradicated, was this beautiful species. This plant has beautiful leaves with intricate veins, subtle flower umbels, and white berries in the fall. My plant first &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/09\/plant-a-day-2020-day-189-cornus-sericea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 189) Cornus sericea<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-8234","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\/8234","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=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8237,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions\/8237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}