{"id":23,"date":"2003-04-29T21:58:59","date_gmt":"2003-04-30T04:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=22"},"modified":"2003-04-29T21:58:59","modified_gmt":"2003-04-30T04:58:59","slug":"remiss-on-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Remiss on trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, OK, I&#8217;ve really been remiss in blogging &#8216;the propagation of rare trees&#8217; part of my masthead.  I am particularly interested in growing some of the more unusual Asian species that seem hardy here on the West Coast of Canada.  One of my favorites is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salisbury.edu\/arboretum\/Idesia\/IdPo\/IdPoHM.html\">Idesia polycarpa<\/a> or &#8216;Wonder tree. They&#8217;ve got beautiful large leaves with a kind of  red veining. I&#8217;ve got four of them which I grew from seed I collected at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Another magnificent species is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnr.vt.edu\/dendro\/dendrology\/syllabus\/ptomentosa.htm\"> Paulownia tomentosa<\/a>, which has beautiful blue foxglove-shaped flowers and massive spade-like leaves, (when young). <a NAME =\"Paulownia\">The oldest one I grew from seed is growing at Cottonwood gardens in Vancouver (about 6 metres tall )  and is already flowering. I collected the seed from a beautiful old specimen growing in front of the VIA station in Thornton Park, Vancouver.<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/paulownia.long.jpg\"><br \/>\nPaulownia in Thornton Park, Vancouver, British Columbia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, OK, I&#8217;ve really been remiss in blogging &#8216;the propagation of rare trees&#8217; part of my masthead. I am particularly interested in growing some of the more unusual Asian species that seem hardy here on the West Coast of Canada. One of my favorites is Idesia polycarpa or &#8216;Wonder tree. They&#8217;ve got beautiful large leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}