{"id":1059,"date":"2013-09-21T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2013-09-21T03:16:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T10:16:42","slug":"fastia-fastia-japonica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/fastia-fastia-japonica\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastia &#8211; Fastia Japonica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High five these palmate leaves of Fastia japonica<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fastia-in-bloom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1060 aligncenter\" title=\"fastia-in-bloom\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fastia-in-bloom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fastia-in-bloom.jpg 354w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fastia-in-bloom-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Fastia was grown indoors as a houseplant then planted in the garden where it thrives to the point where it is now flowering at the end of summer.<br \/>\nIt is several years old, 4 feet tall &amp; wide and is very happy in a shaded north facing position.<\/p>\n<p>When you have finished with some old <strong>house plants you can try to give them a new life outdoors<\/strong>. If they fail you have lost nothing. I have several former foliage house plants in a low maintenance area of the garden where I let plants get on with it for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The evergreen finger shaped leaves are larger than a hand and create <strong>a sculptural plant.<\/strong> I haven&#8217;t studied the flowers before but they are neat and simple spheres.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry this photograph has a blue cast from a near by wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High five these palmate leaves of Fastia japonica This Fastia was grown indoors as a houseplant then planted in the garden where it thrives to the point where it is now flowering at the end of summer. It is several years old, 4 feet tall &amp; wide and is very happy in a shaded north facing position. When you have finished with some old house plants you can try to give them a new life outdoors. If they fail you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/fastia-fastia-japonica\/\"> 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":[45],"tags":[66,65,67],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-greenhouse-plants","tag-evergreen","tag-perennial","tag-sculptural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","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=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}