{"id":14254,"date":"2012-09-24T06:33:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14254"},"modified":"2012-09-24T06:51:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:51:30","slug":"silene-is-not-just-campion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/silene-is-not-just-campion\/","title":{"rendered":"Silene is Not Just Campion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"June garden silene by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7348379812\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7080\/7348379812_d45287762d.jpg\" alt=\"June garden silene\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silene is a genus of plants often called Campion. The &#8216;Catch fly&#8217;, red Campion and the white Campion, Silene latifolia, are quite well known and feature in many cottage gardens.<br \/>\nSiline acaulis is a variety that flowers much closer to the ground on short stems and is similar to Phlox . Some times referred to as the Cushion Pink it is a small mountain-dwelling wildflower<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"silene hookeri by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4282849242\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4027\/4282849242_c00d5423e1.jpg\" alt=\"silene hookeri\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silene Hookeri is grown as a North American rock plant and enjoys drier conditions. It has hairy gray leaves with many short spreading stems in a cluster. The flowers have deeply divided petals in white pink or purple.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Silene cambessedesii by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4535815942\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4005\/4535815942_ea4007321f.jpg\" alt=\"Silene cambessedesii\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silene cambessedesii is synonymous with Silene aegyptica and has darker purple flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Silene schafta agm is a mat-forming semi-evergreen perennial.<br \/>\nSilene Pendula Peach Blossom is a hardy annual also called Nodding Catchfly<br \/>\nSilene Laciniata Jack Flash is an orange flowered hardy perennial.<\/p>\n<p><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=silene\"> More Silene plants and seeds at Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many Silenes are mat forming and useful for rockeries and alpine gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silene is a genus of plants that can be annuals, biennials or herbaceous or evergreen perennials. They are  often called Campion or &#8216;Catch fly&#8217; and red Campion and the white Campion, Silene latifolia, are quite well known and feature in many cottage gardens.<br \/>\nSiline acaulis is a variety that flowers much closer to the ground on short stems and is similar to  pinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14254","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\/14254","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=14254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}