{"id":1100,"date":"2012-09-01T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T07:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2012-09-01T01:19:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T08:19:17","slug":"bergenia-winter-foliage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/bergenia-winter-foliage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergenia for Winter Foliage &#038; Spring Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bergenia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1101 aligncenter\" title=\"bergenia\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bergenia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bergenia.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bergenia-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The best Bergenias have leaves that turn\u00c2\u00a0 a strong colour in Autumn. These purple leaves look good in the December garden when compared to the &#8216;Elephant Ear&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 green varieties of Bergenia. These plants tend to be lusty and the rampant, leathery leaves may need cutting back to keep the plant in control.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Easy Bergenia Growing<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Bergenia <em>ciliata<\/em> make good ground cover plants 1 -2 foot tall depending on the variety.<\/li>\n<li>Bergenia <em>cordifolia<\/em> varieties have smaller leaved varieties that appeal to me for this red and purple winter leaf colouring.<\/li>\n<li>Cuttings from the rhizomes are easy to root and plants spread naturally in most conditions including shade.<\/li>\n<li>The lime green varieties may be larger leaved and more robust if you wish to cover large areas.<\/li>\n<li>They flower on stems of pink bells in clusters. Begenia Eroica is said to flower for longer.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Dead head the flowers for a continuation of flowering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/bergenia-winter-foliage\/attachment\/white-berginia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2327\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2327\" title=\"white-berginia\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/white-berginia.jpg\" alt=\"white-berginia\" width=\"378\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/white-berginia.jpg 378w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/white-berginia-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>This flower is clear white but the buds are a rose pink.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Bergenia have large succulent stalks and like a dampish shady spot<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The rhizomes spread and the plant is useful for covering large difficult areas like scree banks. It is too large to sit well in all but the largest rockeries.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Bergenia varieties including Bressingham White, Baby Doll, Rotblum and Bergenia cordifolia are shade tolerant although better sun means better flowers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/bergenia-winter-foliage\/attachment\/pink-berginia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2328\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2328 aligncenter\" title=\"pink-berginia\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/pink-berginia.jpg\" alt=\"pink-berginia\" width=\"432\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/pink-berginia.jpg 432w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/pink-berginia-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bergenia has some medicinal properties and<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/elephant-ears\/\"> uses see<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bergenia from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&#038;field-keywords=bergenia&#038;x=15&#038;y=24\">amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best Bergenias have leaves that turn  a strong colour in Autumn. These purple leaves look good in the December garden when compared to the &#8216;Elephant Ear&#8217;  green varieties of Bergenia. These plants tend to be lusty and the rampant, leathery leaves may need cutting back to keep the plant in control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,13],"tags":[77,75,76,144],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-gardening","category-tips","tag-colour","tag-perennials","tag-rhizomes","tag-succulent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","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=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}