{"id":9218,"date":"2020-11-10T04:04:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T04:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9218"},"modified":"2020-11-10T04:04:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T04:04:14","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-292-fraxinus-cuspidata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/10\/plant-a-day-2020-day-292-fraxinus-cuspidata\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 292) Fraxinus cuspidata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have bittersweet memories of this plant.\u00a0 About twenty years ago I harvested seed from the ground outside Amy Yee tennis center and started a few seedlings. They did well and I moved a group of them to a large bonsai pot where I grew them for about ten years.\u00a0 They grew as one plant that was very attractive, if not up to exacting bonsai standards.\u00a0 The plant even bloomed a few times and the flowers were surprisingly showy and sweetly fragrant.\u00a0 And it colored a purple maroon in the autumn before dropping its leaves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one year, the plant didn\u2019t leaf out in spring.\u00a0 It was dead.\u00a0 I have no idea why.\u00a0 Sudden ash death syndrome. SADS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years ago, I was at Amy Yee again and the same trees had shed seeds all over the sidewalk.\u00a0 How could I resist?\u00a0 Now I have about ten ash seedlings growing in small pots on the shelves outside the greenhouse.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These plants lend themselves to larger forms of bonsai since the leaves are rather large and coarse.\u00a0 I will keep them growing well and move some to training pots in the spring.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have bittersweet memories of this plant.\u00a0 About twenty years ago I harvested seed from the ground outside Amy Yee tennis center and started a few seedlings. They did well and I moved a group of them to a large bonsai pot where I grew them for about ten years.\u00a0 They grew as one plant … Continue reading Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 292) Fraxinus cuspidata<\/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-9218","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\/9218","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=9218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9222,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}