{"id":657,"date":"2010-07-19T13:08:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2013-05-24T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T21:42:04","slug":"bartrams-garden-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/bartrams-garden-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartram&#8217;s Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartramsgarden.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bartram&#8217;s Garden<\/a>. Very hot but a nice breeze, took two tours, one of the grounds and one of the house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/bartrams\/figs.jpg\" alt=\"Fig tree\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I didn&#8217;t know Fig trees would grow in Philadelphia!.<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Born in 1699, John Bartram became America&#8217;s first great botanist and with his son William identified and cultivated over 200 new plant species. In 1765 King George III appointed John as Royal Botanist, a position he held until his death in 1777.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/bartrams\/storm.jpg\" alt=\"1790 Yellowwood tree\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>July 2010 storm damage of Historic 1790&#8217;s Yellowwood Tree.<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Research has shown that this tree planted by John Bartram, has been damaged in previous storms and hopefully will recover.<\/p>\n<p>Many plants are direct descendents of ones he cultivated, including one of his most well known, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartramsgarden.org\/?page_id=32\" target=\"_blank\">Franklinia, (Franklinia alatamaha)<\/a>, he named it after his friend, Benjamin Franklin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to Bartram&#8217;s Garden. Very hot but a nice breeze, took two tours, one of the grounds and one of the house. I didn&#8217;t know Fig trees would grow in Philadelphia!. Born in 1699, John Bartram became America&#8217;s first great botanist and with his son William identified and cultivated over 200 new plant species. In&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/bartrams-garden-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,2],"tags":[140,141,142],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips","category-garden-chat","tag-bartrams-garden","tag-fig-tree","tag-john-bartram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}