{"id":15370,"date":"2016-01-06T00:45:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T07:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15370"},"modified":"2015-12-26T04:21:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T11:21:45","slug":"gozo-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/garden-visits\/gozo-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Gozo Flower Photos in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malta, Gozo and Comino are Mediterranean island hot spots for early coastal flowers if these photos are anything to go by. Not a plant hunters paradise but a photographers opportunity to get some good shots.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Plants of  Gozo by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8658214638\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8104\/8658214638_df9e5162a5.jpg\" alt=\"Plants of  Gozo\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAgave and Aloe varieties seem to cope with the climate and the salt ladened air.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Plants of Malta  march by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8657106527\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8110\/8657106527_3d321b6212.jpg\" alt=\"Plants of Malta  march\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Aloe, aloe, aloe&#8217; as the botanic police may arrestingly say.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Euphorbia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8658214316\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8103\/8658214316_c610331c3f.jpg\" alt=\"Euphorbia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Euphorbias were in fine fettle almost two months before we will see them in Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Plants of Malta  march by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8658213070\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8104\/8658213070_eccb21b1cf.jpg\" alt=\"Plants of Malta  march\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When in Europe I try to buy packets of seed which have been subject to health checks. I do not want to import the next Knotweed or Ash die-back pathogen.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Plants of  Gozo by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8657107727\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8100\/8657107727_93cc8d41eb.jpg\" alt=\"Plants of  Gozo\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis&#8217;ll prick someones balloon.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Plants of  Gozo by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8658214104\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8106\/8658214104_20f498b0e4.jpg\" alt=\"Plants of  Gozo\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is not a lot of literature about these plants but I found one book &#8216;Wild Plants of Malta&#8217; by H.C. Weber regrettably out of print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malta, Gozo and Comino are Mediterranean island hot spots for early coastal flowers if these photos are anything to go by. Not a plant hunters paradise but a photographers opportunity to get some good shots. Agave and Aloe varieties seem to cope with the climate and the salt ladened air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370","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=15370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}