{"id":12492,"date":"2012-03-14T04:46:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12492"},"modified":"2012-05-27T09:57:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T16:57:39","slug":"dionysia-background-to-the-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/dionysia-background-to-the-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Dionysia  Background to the Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6981601407\/\" title=\"Dionysia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7042\/6981601407_c9665c3091.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Dionysia\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dionysus was the son of Zeus and the Greek god of fertility and wine.<br \/>\nThe Greeks need all the help they can get at the moment. Lending one of their gods to the name of these small cushion plants is a form of reciprocation I suppose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6981605649\/\" title=\"Dionysia monika by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7059\/6981605649_d5215d1f8e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" alt=\"Dionysia monika\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Dionysia  Background to the Plants<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The plant genus Dionysia has around 50 known species<\/li>\n<li>Dionysia are found in the high mountains of Iran and Afganistan.<\/li>\n<li>Dionysia species grow on limestone under overhanging rocks or in crevices.<\/li>\n<li>Plants prefer to face south to encourage flowering.<\/li>\n<li> Dionysia is in the family Primulaceae.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4406185295\/\" title=\"Dionysia  by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2793\/4406185295_038e635e94.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" alt=\"Dionysia \"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Study More Background on Dionysia<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dionysia curviflore tapetodes a species covered on <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/dionysia-curviflore-tapetodes-other-dionysia\/\">Gardeners tips<\/a><\/li>\n<li>There are lots of photographs on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dionysia4u.com\/index.htm\">Dionysia 4 You<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Genus Dionysia, written <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0900048514\/richardpettin-21\">by Chris Grey-Wilson<\/a> and published by the Alpine garden society.\t<\/li>\n<li>According to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/news\/kew-blogs\/alpine-rock-garden\/dionysia-flowering-cushions.htm\"> Kew<\/a>  &#8216;One way that alpine plants and Dionysia can cope with their harsh mountain environment is to form a low mound or cushion, hugging the stony ground or clinging to cliffs&#8217; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplantlist.org\/browse\/A\/Primulaceae\/Dionysia\/\">The Plant List <\/a> details 66 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Dionysia. Of these 54 are accepted species names by WCSP the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5410417273\/\" title=\"Dionysia curviflora by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4074\/5410417273_0fd039ced3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Dionysia curviflora\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dionysia are not easy to grow well but the mass of flower is very rewarding if you get the conditions just right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kewonflickr\/6946740249\/\" title=\"Dionysia curviflora x tapetodes by Kew on Flickr, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7178\/6946740249_51bb94e898.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Dionysia curviflora x tapetodes\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>Dionysia curviflora x tapetodes by Kew on Flickr <\/strong>CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/dionysia-curviflore-tapetodes-other-dionysia\/\">Dionysia curviflore tapetodes &#038; other Dionysia<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the background named after a Greek God, Dionysia are small cushion plants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12492","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=12492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}