{"id":136,"date":"2017-06-13T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T18:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starhillforest.com\/wp1\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2017-07-14T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:51:20","slug":"plants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/starhillforest.com\/wp1\/plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The living collections are the primary focus of the Arboretum, including hardy woody plants, herbaceous plants, non-hardy (conservatory) plants, and natural habitat communities. All collections in the Arboretum are displayed within an aesthetically pleasing informal garden context and\/or a natural-appearing, ecologically sound habitat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New plants are added to the living collection annually. These plants come from a variety of sources: trades with fellow arboreta, botanical institutions, and plant collectors, seed collected and grown by Arboretum staff, and various nurseries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plants in the landscape were initially documented with carefully plotted hand-drawn maps and a card file system. With the hiring of a full-time staff member, the collection records went digital, moving thousands of records into a spreadsheet and mapping every planted tree or shrub with GIS coordinates. Most plants are labeled in the field with a metal identification tag that notes the botanical name, lot number (precursor to discrete accession numbers), and abbreviated source information. Tags have been known to disappear, whether via wind, a lost branch, or occasionally nibbled by a deer with a taste for shiny things, so GIS coordinates are truly essential to keeping track of all 2500 woody plants in the scientific collection at Starhill Forest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The living collections are the primary focus of the Arboretum, including hardy woody plants, herbaceous plants, non-hardy (conservatory) plants, and natural habitat communities. All collections in the Arboretum are displayed within an aesthetically pleasing informal garden context and\/or a natural-appearing,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starhillforest.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starhillforest.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starhillforest.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starhillforest.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starhillforest.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starhillforest.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/starhillforest.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starhillforest.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}