{"id":11234,"date":"2014-10-17T05:54:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T12:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2014-10-11T03:59:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T10:59:16","slug":"help-with-growing-persicaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/help-with-growing-persicaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Help with Growing Persicaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Persicaria by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6253501240\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6151\/6253501240_19f9e75d49.jpg\" alt=\"Persicaria\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAvailable in Red Pink and Mauve shades there are many versions of Persicaria to grow in your garden.<\/p>\n<h3>Help Chosing Places for Growing Persicaria<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>As moisture loving plants Persicaria are used in boggy areas or near water.<\/li>\n<li>Most Persicaria have creeping stems and bottle brush flowers that form good ground cover.<\/li>\n<li>There varieties suitable for the rock garden and even aquatic ones for the pond.<\/li>\n<li>Some varieties look good in a cottage garden or as part of a mixed border.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Help Selecting and Growing Persicaria<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dead head spent blooms by pulling off the flowering stem at its base to encourage further flowers throughout the summer.<\/li>\n<li>Whilst Persicaria prefer moist soil most will tolerate dry conditions but won&#8217;t spread in those circumstances.<\/li>\n<li>Propagate by division, splitting larger clumps in autumn or spring.<\/li>\n<li>Persicaria nepalensis is low creeping ground cover for shade. Boldly patterned leaves turn redder in the sun.<\/li>\n<li>Persicaria amplexicaulis &#8220;Blackfield&#8221; has slender flowers in very deep red.<\/li>\n<li>Persicaria virginiana Variegata is grown for its variegated leaves<\/li>\n<li>Persicaria polymorpha has large pointed leaves and white heads of frothy flowers in May.<\/li>\n<li>Persicaria affinis &#8220;Superba&#8221; or Dimity AGM has pink flowers and leaves that turn red in autumn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Persicaria bistorta by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5739218741\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5306\/5739218741_a9517ed648.jpg\" alt=\"Persicaria bistorta\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPersicaria are from the family Polygonaceae which includes the weed like Polygonums. However the herbaceous species named above make good garden plants.<\/p>\n<p>Like many flowers Persicari bistorta repays close attention. From afar the flowers look small and unexceptional but close too they are frilly and delightful tubes of flower power.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Persicaria bistorta by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5739218911\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5185\/5739218911_be9b5de04e.jpg\" alt=\"Persicaria bistorta\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The RHS says &#8216;Persicaria can be annuals, herbaceous or evergreen perennials or sub-shrubs with simple leaves and small bell-shaped white or pink flowers in long-lasting spikes or panicles&#8217; and have awarded an AGM to Polygonum amplexicaule &#8216;Fire Tail&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available in Red Pink and Mauve shades there are many versions of Persicaria to grow in your garden. The RHS says &#8216;Persicaria can be annuals, herbaceous or evergreen perennials&#8230;&#8217; For help choosing Places for Growing Persicaria read the full post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11234","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\/11234","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=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}