{"id":11655,"date":"2011-11-09T02:59:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T09:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11655"},"modified":"2011-11-09T02:59:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T09:59:48","slug":"pentas-the-plant-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/pentas-the-plant-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentas the Plant for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6322543309\/\" title=\"Pentas by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6037\/6322543309_1a0f4cab4d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Pentas\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally I spot a plant that I think is going to be popular in the years to come. Pentas are now appearing as pot plants and I think they will be popular as showy annuals in 2012 and the near future.<br \/>\nAmerican breeders are going to help the introduction to the UK with a wide range of colours and varieties to choose from.<\/p>\n<h2>What are Pentas<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Pentas are African in origin and are best treated as annuals in the UK although they may be perennial in the right conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Pentas have dark green, lance-shaped, furry veined leaves as shown above. <\/li>\n<li>Plants can grow up to 3 feet high and wide but new F1 seeds are more compact.<\/li>\n<li>The prolific clusters of five-petaled star shaped flowers bloom all summer.<\/li>\n<li>Flowers are available in red, white, lavender, purple, and shades of pink.<\/li>\n<li>Pentas can be grown in Containers,Beds &#038; Borders, or as Groundcover.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Attraction of Pentas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pentas will flourish in high heat\/humidity. <\/li>\n<li>Butterflies are very attracted to the Pentas flower and combine well with Buddleia<\/li>\n<li>The flowers grow on terminal clusters and self-deadhead. <\/li>\n<li> Pentas can be produced in 12-13 weeks from seed.<\/li>\n<li>Full sized Pentas are often sprawling, as tall stems will topple over. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I spot a plant that I think is going to be popular in the years to come. Pentas are now appearing as pot plants and I think they will be popular as showy annuals in the near future.<br \/>\nAmerican breeders are going to help the introduction to the UK with a wide range of colours and varieties to choose from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11655","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\/11655","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=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}