{"id":13741,"date":"2015-07-11T02:37:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T09:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13741"},"modified":"2015-06-30T00:44:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T07:44:35","slug":"growing-ixora-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-ixora-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Ixora in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Ixora 'Peter Rapsey' by Kew on Flickr, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kewonflickr\/7514019306\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8431\/7514019306_1950701f02.jpg\" alt=\"Ixora 'Peter Rapsey'\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This updates my earlier post on Ixora with a new photograph from Kew Garden of the variety Peter Rapsey. <em>CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I liked the look of the Ixora &#8216;Super King&#8217; (below) although I am unlikely to be able to grow a flowering specimen with my limited heat. That photo was taken at Kew Garden in March 2011.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Ixora<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ixora are tropical evergreen trees and shrubs. There are said to be around 500 species.<\/li>\n<li>Ixora can flower in red, orange and white with 4 petals but are arranged in a profuse ball shape to make a fine display<\/li>\n<li>Other names for Ixora coccinea include Flame of the Woods, Needle flower, Jungle Flame, Jungle Geranium.<\/li>\n<li>Red ixora flowers are used in Hindu worship as well as in Indian folk medicine.<\/li>\n<li>More Photos of Ixora <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=ixora&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hl=en&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi&amp;biw=1584&amp;bih=734&amp;sei=xALITvKoIsGZ8QOtsKV7\">from Google<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The variety photographed above was Ixora Super King but there are 3 species with this name Ixora casei &#8216;Super King&#8217;, Ixora duffii &#8216;Super King&#8217; and Ixora macrothyrsa &#8216;Super King&#8217; or &#8216;Malay&#8217; so I am still in a quandary.<\/li>\n<li>Ixoras do best in full sun in a moist, organic, well drained acid soil .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Ixora 'Super King' by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4406619946\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2774\/4406619946_58f8fb5499.jpg\" alt=\"Ixora 'Super King'\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Uses of Ixora<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ixora in the wild are often used as hedging and can endure some salt spray on the wind.<\/li>\n<li>Ixora are available to grow as bonsai and flower when quite short.<\/li>\n<li>As sun lovers Ixora need plenty of light and protection all year round so they only make exotic conservatory plants in the UK.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ixora are tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with around 500 species. Ixora can flower in red, orange and white with 4 petals but are arranged in a profuse ball shape to make a fine display in tropical climates or as conservatory specimens in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13741","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=13741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}