{"id":11177,"date":"2017-01-15T08:34:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T08:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11177"},"modified":"2016-12-31T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T11:27:28","slug":"autumn-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/novice-gardeners\/autumn-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6240751147\/\" title=\"Lister Park 067 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6230\/6240751147_06b87be60f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Lister Park 067\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every colour has its day and for blue that is often in Autumn. This is a selection of our blue to purple plants showing off during mid to late October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6240735987\/\" title=\"Blue conifer by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6108\/6240735987_e834e1cb22.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Blue conifer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are not too many plants that form a blue leaf or needles in this case. Eventually this Firs young needles will turn green.<br \/>\nSome Hostas are said to have blue leaves or blue\/green.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6240760833\/\" title=\"Aster by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6050\/6240760833_0567649cb5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Aster\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michaelmas daisies are one of our favourites on Gardeners Tips as you <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/michaelmas-daisies-and-asters-from-seed\/\">may have noticed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3792340635\/\" title=\"Geranium  Rozane Gerwat by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3600\/3792340635_2f90a58900.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Geranium  Rozane Gerwat\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue is a tough colour to get right in the garden. Roses, Dahlia and Narcissus are renown for not having blue varieties. I have cheated with this hard Geranium that was in flower earlier in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every colour has its day and for blue that is often in Autumn. This is a selection of our blue to purple plants showing off during mid to late October. If you &#8216;have the blues&#8217; go out into a garden and inspect growing plants of whatever colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novice-gardeners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177","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=11177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}