{"id":13528,"date":"2015-06-22T00:36:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T07:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13528"},"modified":"2015-06-17T01:02:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T08:02:48","slug":"growing-your-gerbera-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-your-gerbera-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Your Gerbera Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New varieties, aggressive marketing or clever breeding are encouraging UK gardeners to grow Gerberas outdoors. The two photographs below are of plants on sale at a local garden centre.<br \/>\nBeware these outdoor Gerberas do not produce flowers as big or robust as the charming florists varieties of <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-gerbera\/\">Gerbera<\/a>. Global warming may help but a sheltered sunny spot will have to do for the time being.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gerbera outdoor by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7181422673\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7078\/7181422673_1fe839804f.jpg\" alt=\"Gerbera outdoor\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a nice red Gerbera but the flowers are only about an inch across. I think these plants are being marketed as Gerbera Garvinea or &#8216;Forever Daisies&#8217;. As regular readers will know I think any plant that needs <strong>&#8216;marketing&#8217;<\/strong> is very suspect.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gerbera outdoor by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7181420751\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7100\/7181420751_2460577099.jpg\" alt=\"Gerbera outdoor\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe golden coloured flower was bigger than its red cousin but still looked smaller than traditional Gerbera flowers. Traditionally these would be Gerbera jamesonii and Gerbera viridifolia or a cross between.<\/p>\n<p>If you still wish to try your green fingers with outdoor Gerbera <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=gerbera\">Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a> supply plants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New varieties, agressive marketing or clever breeding are encouraging UK gardeners to grow Gerberas outdoors. The two photographs below are of plants on sale at a local garden centre.<br \/>\nBeware these outdoor Gerberas do not produce flowers as big or robust as the charming florists varieties of <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-gerbera\/\">Gerbera<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13528","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\/13528","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=13528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}