{"id":13712,"date":"2024-05-14T06:26:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T13:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=13712"},"modified":"2024-05-14T06:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T13:26:18","slug":"shadbush-shadblow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2024\/05\/shadbush-shadblow\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadbush, shadblow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This shrub makes my heart sing. I\u2019ve been seeing a lot of it lately, the white blooms gleaming in the woods. Some things I know (or would like to know) about it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It\u2019s native, so much more suited for this region than forsythia (also in bloom and much more gaudy). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The reddish bronze leaves give it a colorful tinge, especially noticeable when next to a tree with white bloom and green leaves. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It\u2019s in the rose family! Rosaceae. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It has a lot of names. When I lived in Connecticut we called it serviceberry, but here in Maine shadbush comes to mind more readily. Shadblow is another one. Juneberry is another. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The tree blooms around the same time as the shad run, thus the name. I don&#8217;t know if the shad run anymore around here. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The name Serviceberry is said to come from the recognition that when the blooms came, the ground was soft enough to bury bodies. So funeral services could be held at the time of the blooms. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ve never seen the berries. I&#8217;ll have to make note of a nearby tree so I can examine it later. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I planted one in the yard because I thought we didn&#8217;t have one. Later I noticed we do have one growing, in the copse where the driveway starts its turnaround. Much bigger and healthier looking. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_8471-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_8471-2-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_8471-2-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shadbush <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_8472-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_8472-2-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_8472-2-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_8472-2-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_8472-2-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_8472-2-1-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Close-up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This shrub makes my heart sing. I\u2019ve been seeing a lot of it lately, the white blooms gleaming in the woods. Some things I know (or would like to know) about it:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13714,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712\/revisions\/13714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}