{"id":59063,"date":"2019-11-15T12:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/?p=59063"},"modified":"2019-11-15T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:42:43","slug":"whats-beautiful-now-needles-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2019\/11\/around-the-garden\/whats-beautiful-now\/whats-beautiful-now-needles-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Beautiful Now: Needles &#038; Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shift your focus to the conifers. As we make our way through fall, the vibrant red and orange leaves falling from the deciduous trees give way to the rich, deep hues of the evergreens. Some of them, like <em>Cupressus nootkatensis<\/em> &#8216;Sparkling Arrow&#8217;, show fascinating variegated (the white scales lack chlorophyll) foliage, while the needles on <em>Pinus strobus<\/em> &#8216;Contorta&#8217; take on unique, swirling forms you might not expect.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-imagebrowser\" id=\"ngg-imagebrowser-13e3862a3a2e3fd9e1d8b12b4b34a4da-59063\" data-nextgen-gallery-id=\"13e3862a3a2e3fd9e1d8b12b4b34a4da\">\n\n\t<h3><em>Cupressus nootkatensis<\/em> 'Sparkling Arrow'<\/h3>\n\n\t<div class=\"pic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/gallery\/wbn-11-15-19\/MCOB5979.jpg\" title=\" \" class=\"shutterset_13e3862a3a2e3fd9e1d8b12b4b34a4da\" data-image-id=\"2011\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/gallery\/wbn-11-15-19\/MCOB5979.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/gallery\/wbn-11-15-19\/thumbs\/thumbs_MCOB5979.jpg\" data-title=\"&lt;em&gt;Cupressus nootkatensis&lt;\/em&gt; &#039;Sparkling Arrow&#039;\" data-description=\" \"><img alt=\"<em>Cupressus nootkatensis<\/em> 'Sparkling Arrow'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/gallery\/wbn-11-15-19\/MCOB5979.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"ngg-imagebrowser-nav\"> \n\t\t<div class=\"back\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"ngg-browser-prev\" id=\"ngg-prev-2010\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2019\/11\/around-the-garden\/whats-beautiful-now\/whats-beautiful-now-needles-scales\/nggallery\/image\/mcob5905\/\">&#9668; Back<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"next\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"ngg-browser-next\" id=\"ngg-next-2010\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2019\/11\/around-the-garden\/whats-beautiful-now\/whats-beautiful-now-needles-scales\/nggallery\/image\/mcob5905\/\">Next &#9658;<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"counter\">Picture 1 of 2<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-imagebrowser-desc\"><p> <\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\t\n\n<\/div>\t\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shift your focus to the conifers. As we make our way through fall, the vibrant red and orange leaves falling from the deciduous trees give way to the rich, deep hues of the evergreens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1439],"tags":[1940,955,449,4682],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-fmD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59071,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59063\/revisions\/59071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}