{"id":2213,"date":"2013-05-16T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2013-05-20T19:30:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T11:30:49","slug":"holly-leaved-hovea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/16\/holly-leaved-hovea\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Leaved Hovea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2273\" alt=\"20130513 008\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-008-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-008-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-008.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There are purple splashes throughout the forest with the early flowering of this prickly perennial plant. \u00a0According to the Western Australian <a href=\"http:\/\/florabase.dec.wa.gov.au\/browse\/profile\/3964\" target=\"_blank\">Herbarium<\/a> it is not threatened. \u00a0Dr Eddy Wajon describes the holly leaved hovea as &#8220;uncommon&#8221; in his wonderful\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boffinsbookshop.com.au\/books\/9780957781702\/colour-guide-to-spring-wildflowers-of-western-australia\" target=\"_blank\">Colour Guide to Spring Wildflowers of Western Australian: Part 2 Perth and the Southwest<\/a>&#8221; \u00a0so you don&#8217;t normally see lots of them together.<\/p>\n<p>His book groups the flowers by colour rather than by species which makes it easy to find the right one. \u00a0Each plant has a great photograph and is described in very simple, clear, non-technical terms and it has been invaluable in learning about <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/category\/wildlife\/flowers\/\">the flowers<\/a> on the property.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2404 alignright\" alt=\"20130519 020\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-020-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-020-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-020.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Eddy Wajon is an amateur botanist and photographer. \u00a0In addition to publishing \u00a04 \u00a0geographical colour guides, he has also contributed wildflower, landscape and tourist photographs to a range of calendars. \u00a0He is an environmental chemist and consults in the area of environmental management. \u00a0He is also a colleague and has been to the property to photograph our wildflowers and orchids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are purple splashes throughout the forest with the early flowering of this prickly perennial plant. \u00a0According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21,19,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-008.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}