{"id":10139,"date":"2016-04-22T00:40:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T07:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10139"},"modified":"2018-05-16T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T09:37:58","slug":"big-purple-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/big-purple-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Purple Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"021 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5661852389\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5145\/5661852389_75dc848ded.jpg\" alt=\"021\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is purple and where do you draw the line between dark pink and dirty red? How much blue should be included to make a purple plant? Does it really matter anyway?<\/p>\n<p>My selection starts with a small<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/lewisia-growing-tips\/\"> Lewisia <\/a>flowering freely in my garden wall.<br \/>\nAs we have said before Lewisia is a &#8216;trendy&#8217; plant flowering in a range of bright almost neon colours. Give them a try, they thrive in the dry.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Peony by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5661851141\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5149\/5661851141_0d2707907f.jpg\" alt=\"Peony\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This tree peony flower is 10&#8243; across and too stunning to leave out of this picture post. The petals are very thin and the flower will only last a few days but it is worth the garden space as it is one of the first of my Peonies to flower.<br \/>\nAs often happens the colour in the flower is more intense at the base of the petals where this <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/peony-pictures-and-suppliers\/\">Peony <\/a>is almost a black\/purple.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14963 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Cornwall-151-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Cornwall 151\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Cornwall-151-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Cornwall-151-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Cornwall-151.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The flowering Currant is a garden favourite as one of the early purple flowering shrubs that takes over from the spring abundance of yellow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17576 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/g-001-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"g 001\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/g-001-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/g-001-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is purple and where do you draw the line between dark pink and dirty red? How much blue should be included to make a purple plant? Does it really matter anyway? My selection starts with a small Lewisia flowering freely in my garden wall. As we have said before Lewisia is a &#8216;trendy&#8217; plant flowering in a range of bright almost neon colours. Give them a try, they thrive in the dry. This tree peony flower is 10&#8243; across&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/big-purple-plants\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19277,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions\/19277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}