{"id":11076,"date":"2011-10-04T08:32:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11076"},"modified":"2011-10-04T08:32:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:32:48","slug":"mountain-plants-and-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/mountain-plants-and-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Plants and Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5874552900\/\" title=\"alpbach mountain flowers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5184\/5874552900_d74d4c078b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"alpbach 207\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Knowing where your plants grow naturally can give you many clues to growing in your garden. Woodland plants are likely to do best in shade, streamside plants will like moist soil and mountain plants are likely to be deep rooted and hardy.<\/p>\n<p>On the dry south side of a mountain you may find plants that can live in poor soil with very little water.  They may be evergreen, with leathery leaves and very deep roots or have sharp thorns. This photo has regular mist to irrigate the very short rhododendrons that grow like weeds.<\/p>\n<p>Some mountain plants only seem to live in these conditions because stronger plants eliminate them from elsewhere. Some mountain plants are relatively frost-sensitive and can only survive where snow builds up in winter to insulate them from the hardest frosts. <\/p>\n<p>Moss, grass, heath and heather can often thrive above the tree line on  mountain slopes. Many small but beautiful alpines grow on the mountains as the name implies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5485649951\/\" title=\"Alpine Dwarf Rhododendron\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5133\/5485649951_6215b0ea82.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Alpines in February\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ext.colostate.edu\/pubs\/garden\/07413.html\">Colorado State University<\/a> has a list of mountain plants to grow above 8,000 feet &#8211; Mmmm a bit higher than my garden then. It is interesting that so many of our successful garden plants come from high altitudes such as the Himalayas and the Alps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain plants pay for close study and you can learn more about your own garden even though you are not that far above sea level. Mountain plants adapt to the harsh surroundings often with deep tap roots and the ability to survive harsh and inhospitable soil conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076","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=11076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}