{"id":1027,"date":"2019-08-16T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2019-08-08T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:28:34","slug":"odorous-weed-or-welcome-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/2019\/08\/16\/odorous-weed-or-welcome-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Odorous  Weed or Welcome Friend?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><br>Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ~Walt Whitman<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"958\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/american-beauty-berry-2-958x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/american-beauty-berry-2-958x1024.jpg 958w, https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/american-beauty-berry-2-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/american-beauty-berry-2-768x821.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption><strong>American Beautyberry<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Callicarpa americana or American beautyberry,  a southern U.S. native, makes frequent appearances in coastal gardens. Many gardeners quickly remove these visitors, equating them to troublesome weeds. However, some welcome these natives, finding their large serrated leaves and unusual odor a benefit to their gardens. The magenta colored berries also add color and provide food for wildlife. Learn more about this odorous native shrub at the following websites.  <a href=\"https:\/\/plants.ces.ncsu.edu\/plants\/callicarpa-americana\/\">NC Extension Gardener Toolbox<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Callicarpa_americana#Distribution\">Wikipedia  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildflower.org\/plants\/result.php?id_plant=CAAM2\">Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ~Walt Whitman Callicarpa americana or American beautyberry, a southern U.S. native, makes frequent appearances in coastal gardens. Many gardeners quickly remove these visitors, equating them to troublesome weeds. However, some welcome these natives, finding their large serrated leaves and unusual &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/2019\/08\/16\/odorous-weed-or-welcome-friend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Odorous  Weed or Welcome Friend?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beautification","category-educational","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}