{"id":1476,"date":"2021-05-14T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2021-05-14T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:52:11","slug":"pacific-dogwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/pacific-dogwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Dogwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1478\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33001.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The official flower symbol for our province of British Columbia is the <em><strong>Pacific Dogwood.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em>It is our floral emblem.\u00a0 The Dogwood tree flowers in April and May.\u00a0 In the autumn, it is known for its cluster of bright red berries and colourful leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Students in Division 10 have been observing Pacific Dogwood trees in the Clinton School neighbourhood.\u00a0 <em>We have learned that the wood was used for making knitting needles by the Cowichan people and the deep brown bark was used for dye by the Salish.\u00a0 The wood has also been used for piano keys.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The branches provide shelter for land and water animals.\u00a0 The flowers provide nectar to pollinating insects.\u00a0 The fruit becomes food for birds and mammals.\u00a0 The buds, twigs and leaves are munched on by local wildlife.\u00a0 Bears and beavers enjoy the leaves and the twigs are food for deers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We have been observing the white flowered Pacific Dogwood.\u00a0<\/strong> We have also seen the Pink Dogwood tree which is used as an ornamental tree in gardens.<a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1477\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33041-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33041-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33041.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1480\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33091-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33091-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33091.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1479\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33051-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33051-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/files\/2021\/05\/IMG_33051.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official flower symbol for our province of British Columbia is the Pacific Dogwood.\u00a0 It is our floral emblem.\u00a0 The Dogwood tree flowers in April and May.\u00a0 In the autumn, it is known for its cluster of bright red berries and colourful leaves. Students in<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/pacific-dogwood\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/enchelmaierj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}