{"id":10914,"date":"2016-02-11T03:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T10:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10914"},"modified":"2016-02-06T05:16:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:16:23","slug":"floral-vistas-need-planning-before-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/floral-vistas-need-planning-before-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Floral Vistas   Plan Before Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"floral vista \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3793143532\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2559\/3793143532_0068346994.jpg\" alt=\"floral vista\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greenery is all very well but I like to see swathes of colourful flowers.<br \/>\nI try to envisage how mixed planting will shape up in terms of colour but generally my minds eye falls short when it comes to the imagination department.<br \/>\nThe best tip is to keep it simple with only a very limited number of varieties chosen because they are due to flower around the same time.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast my wife, on the other hand, is wedded to green leafed houseplants, green conservatory plants and even green outdoors. (She is also wedded to me and I am not as green as I am cabbage looking so at least I get some colour into the garden)<br \/>\nPerhaps she should grow <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/house-greenhouse-plants\/grow-colourful-gloxinia-as-houseplants\/\">Gloxinia<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Meadow \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3785601450\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2626\/3785601450_a66a225cfc.jpg\" alt=\"Meadow\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do not mind seeing my colour in wild meadows or just as yellow in a field of buttercups. This photo looks like a pointillist painting rather than a snap shot but it was planned by RHS gardeners to look something like this when the ground was laid out.<\/p>\n<p>A friend at our village gardeners club insists she only grows flowers that avoid yellow &#8211; I guess she thinks it too garish and she misses out on some grand flowers.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Snowdrop park\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4395119244\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4039\/4395119244_abe8f1652f.jpg\" alt=\"Snowdrop park\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woodland walks in Spring would not be the same if it wasn&#8217;t for the Snowdrops, Aconites and Narcissus.<br \/>\nEven wild garlic is better when you can see the white flower.<br \/>\nIs white really a colour some folk ask &#8211; to me a resounding yes, just consider a rainbow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top pictures of floral vistas with planning tips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-10914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914","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=10914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}