{"id":10743,"date":"2012-09-30T07:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10743"},"modified":"2012-09-26T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:15:06","slug":"hosta-flower-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/hosta-flower-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosta Flower Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hosta flowers by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3786220322\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3480\/3786220322_79f5a5bc22.jpg\" alt=\"Hosta flowers\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA mass of purple flowers show that Hosta can produce the goods. They are also <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/hosta-flower-arranging-gardeners-tips\/\">good for flower arranging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hosta slug fest by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7747726466\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8436\/7747726466_2ac72e4c29.jpg\" alt=\"Hosta slug fest\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These flowers stand proud of the leaves which are just beginning to suffer slug damage.  Flowers from June to October with funnel or bell shapes.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hosta flower slugged by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3734439725\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2464\/3734439725_ff0314d88d.jpg\" alt=\"Hosta flower slugged\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>White flowers on this larger leafed Hosta are shown off by the blue-green leaves.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jedburgh hosta by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7649273060\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8008\/7649273060_e5183e850e.jpg\" alt=\"Jedburgh hosta\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another clear white flower &#8211; I am thinking I should consider Hostas for flowers not just the shape, form and colouring of the leaves. White flowering Hosta\u00c2\u00a0 plantaginea is strongly scented.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Old Hosta by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4920169887\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4093\/4920169887_0726d808a1.jpg\" alt=\"Old Hosta\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flowers are not as succulent as the leaves and snails and slugs go for the easy meal. Hosta flowers\u00c2\u00a0 are \u00c2\u00a0 members of the lily family and some folk say they are edible (but I will leave them for the slugs).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hosta slug fest by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7747692114\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8448\/7747692114_fc89256da1.jpg\" alt=\"Hosta slug fest\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not as floriferous as many varieties the stems are shorter and few in number.<br \/>\nHostas can be worth growing for the flowers alone &#8211; look at these flowers and see if the leaves are just useful extra features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostas can be worth growing for the flowers alone &#8211; look at these flowers and see if the leaves are just useful extra features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743","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=10743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}