{"id":12595,"date":"2012-04-01T07:08:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12595"},"modified":"2012-04-01T07:08:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T14:08:26","slug":"herbaceous-helenium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/herbaceous-helenium\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbaceous Helenium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marylise-doctrinal\/3704370737\/\" title=\"H\u00c3\u2030L\u00c3\u2030NIUM by Mary.Do, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2638\/3704370737_d000ccd7fc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"H\u00c3\u2030L\u00c3\u2030NIUM\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Helenium are a mainstay of the herbaceous border generally flowering from late summer into late autumn.<br \/>\nThe colour range is warm and at times fiery with reds, browns, oranges, yellows and bi-colours. Very appropriate for the season and easy to grow from seed.<\/p>\n<h3>Common Names<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Commonly known as Helen&#8217;s flower as they are believed to have been watered by Helen of Troys tears.<\/li>\n<li>Some species are also known as Sneezeweed as the dried ground leaves were used in USA as a form of snuff.<\/li>\n<li>There are  39 accepted species with over 220 known names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/e3000\/3952878191\/\" title=\"Impression, Helenium &quot;Waltraut&quot; by e\u00c2\u00b3\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00b0, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2240\/3952878191_b0e8c67c08.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Impression, Helenium &quot;Waltraut&quot;\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Specific Varieties and Cultivars<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Helenium Sahin&#8217;s Early Flowerer (agm) opens with rich golden ray-florets and a central brown disc-floret. It fades to burnt orange over time.<\/li>\n<li>Helenium Ruby Thuesday is a new compact introduction with rich red florets<\/li>\n<li>Helenium Wyndley grows to about 32&#8243; with yellow florets overlayed with brown and orange.<\/li>\n<li>Helenium autumnale &#8216;Sunshine Hybrids&#8217; is a mixture of seed offering a dazzling colour range of flowers Height: 2-4ft.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kingsbraegarden\/236324173\/\" title=\"Helenium autumnale, Sneezeweed by KingsbraeGarden, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/82\/236324173_f24cffba47.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Helenium autumnale, Sneezeweed\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Growing from Seed<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sow February to June or September to October. <\/li>\n<li>Germinate at  55-59F on the surface of a good free draining, damp seed compost. <\/li>\n<li>Place in a propagator or seal container inside a polythene bag until after germination which usually takes 14-21 days. <\/li>\n<li>Do not exclude light at any stage, as this helps germination.<\/li>\n<li>Grow on in moist well drained soil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Credits<\/strong><br \/>\nH\u00c3\u2030L\u00c3\u2030NIUM by Mary.Do CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<br \/>\nImpression, Helenium &quot;Waltraut&quot; by e\u00c2\u00b3\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00b0 CC BY-SA 2.0<br \/>\nHelenium autumnale, Sneezeweed by KingsbraeGarden CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helenium have appropriate colouring for the season and are easy to grow from seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595","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=12595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}