{"id":14465,"date":"2013-03-23T00:46:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T07:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14465"},"modified":"2013-03-23T03:29:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T10:29:27","slug":"titanic-garden-icebergs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/titanic-garden-icebergs\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanic Garden Icebergs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your autumn garden may still contain Ice Plants but how many Icebergs have you grown. Before global warming addles everyone&#8217;s brains why not grow roses and lettuce that even the kids will think are cool.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-650\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/iceberg-late-flowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-650\" title=\"iceberg-late-flowers\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/iceberg-late-flowers.jpg\" alt=\"Rose Iceberg\" width=\"448\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/iceberg-late-flowers.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/iceberg-late-flowers-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Iceberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Global warming has not made my Iceberg Rose melt or disappear. On the contrary it is doing very well despite the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the <strong>top picks<\/strong> for many rose enthusiast this is one shrub that can look after itself. Any floribunda rose should have lots of buds and blossom and <strong>Iceberg doesn&#8217;t disappoint<\/strong>. These buds are slightly pink, opening regularly through summer and autumn to display classic white roses.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to other roses this plant is disease resistant, feeds some aphids and has sharp thorns but all is forgiven in lieu of its great display.<\/p>\n<h3>Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Icebergs bloom on new wood so prune before Easter to get good growth.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage your Iceberg to grow tall (4 foot) in a &#8216;White Garden&#8217; &#8211; you can also get Iceberg as a climber sport<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/calliope\/446450818\/\" title=\"miniature iceberg lettuce by Muffet, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/168\/446450818_39b86dcff5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" alt=\"miniature iceberg lettuce\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iceberg Two<\/strong><br \/>\nVegetable gardeners will think of the Iceberg lettuce before roses.<br \/>\nTo me they are not big on taste but great on texture. Crisp and juiciest of the many Lettuce varieties the Iceberg is a household favourite.<br \/>\nDue to the high water content Iceberg lettuce are not much good once the frost arrives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aquariawintersoul\/5693041486\/\" title=\"iceberg lettuce 2 by wintersoul1, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5307\/5693041486_fc1dd37f45.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" alt=\"iceberg lettuce 2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Photo credits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>miniature iceberg lettuce by MuffetCC BY 2.0<br \/>\niceberg lettuce 2 by wintersoul 1 CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your autumn garden may still contain Ice Plants but how many Icebergs have you grown. Before global warming addles everyone&#8217;s brains why not grow roses and lettuce that even the kids will think are cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14465","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=14465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}