{"id":53,"date":"2017-04-28T04:21:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T04:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/?p=53"},"modified":"2018-10-02T04:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T04:23:31","slug":"hesperaloe-parviflora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/hesperaloe-parviflora\/","title":{"rendered":"Hesperaloe parviflora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not an aloe and not a yucca, it\u2019s grass-like succulent in the <em>Agavaceae<\/em> family about four feet tall and wide, native to the Southwest U.S. and Mexico. What I like about the <em>Hesperaloe<\/em> is its structural rigidness of its leaves and the red inflorescence that towers over seven and eight feet on mature plants.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-54\" src=\"http:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dudleyaLS_38-223x300_Hesperaloe-parviflora-Yellow-Sun-223x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Hesperaloe parviflora 'Yellow Sun'\" width=\"250\" height=\"337\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hesperaloe parviflora &#8216;Yellow Sun&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a desert succulent, it\u2019s one of the few succulents I would recommend no supplemental irrigation. In my experience it performs better when it is placed off of the irrigation grid on sunny locations. And as most succulents, its growth is slow, but it will not disappoint because the bloom stalks are strikingly spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>With the occasional desiccation of leaves, it literally requires no pruning. It\u2019s relatively free of pests\/diseases unless placed on shade or over-watered. \u00a0It is easy to propagate by seed or by clump division. Whether the red or yellow blooming <em>H<\/em>. <em>parviflora<\/em>, it\u2019s absolutely one of my favorite succulents for full sun and limited irrigation areas in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not an aloe and not a yucca, it\u2019s grass-like succulent in the Agavaceae family about four feet tall and wide, native to the Southwest U.S. and Mexico. What I like &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-succulents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dudleyagardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}