{"id":119,"date":"2010-04-19T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T21:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=119"},"modified":"2010-04-19T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T21:08:06","slug":"natives-and-exotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Natives and Exotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Diana, who lives in New Zealand, has a wonderful piece in <a title=\"Diana's journal\" href=\"http:\/\/diana-neutze.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/exotic.html\" target=\"_blank\">her journal <\/a>today about the &#8220;exotic&#8221; species in her garden. It set me thinking about where I live. The English sparrows and starlings that  forage in town don&#8217;t have much chance here at the edge of the forest, where  the native birds are so dominant. Our resident Red-Shouldered Hawk argues noisily with the  ravens, an American Robin sings his heart out from the top of the tallest fir. A  dozen quail putter through the garden, and the returning Violet-Green Swallows inspect their  nest site in the porch.<\/p>\n<p>Of plants my garden is a mixture: some natives, but more  Mediterranean and Australian dry-summer species. My little apple tree is in  glorious blossom. But the tree I treasure is a young and flourishing <a title=\"Pohutukawa image \" href=\"http:\/\/webspace.webring.com\/people\/lz\/zuhair\/pohutukawaflowers.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Pohutukawa<\/a>, a New Zealand native  that reminds me of the beaches of my childhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Diana, who lives in New Zealand, has a wonderful piece in her journal today about the &#8220;exotic&#8221; species in her garden. It set me thinking about where I live. The English sparrows and starlings that forage in town don&#8217;t have much chance here at the edge of the forest, where the native birds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,59,8,91],"tags":[96,98,417,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}