{"id":15420,"date":"2017-02-09T00:51:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15420"},"modified":"2017-01-25T10:51:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:51:59","slug":"favourite-summer-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/bulb\/favourite-summer-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparkling Summer Bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reliable flowering can be expected from summer bulbs and tubers.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Allium by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7467595964\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7271\/7467595964_9d187ba3fa.jpg\" alt=\"Allium\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Early Summer Flowering<\/strong><br \/>\nAlliums flower May-July, I like those that look like a burst of stars<br \/>\nAnemone start in April with the woodland varieties then come the blousy De Caen and larger corm types through summer<\/p>\n<p>Dutch Iris look good for a short while in midsummer but I find I get poor results in containers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a title=\"St Just Truro Begonia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7551794208\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8160\/7551794208_eb3bd12c04.jpg\" alt=\"St Just Truro Begonia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Summer Tubers and Corms<\/strong><br \/>\nBegonia tubers include trailing varieties or large dinner-plate blooms through to first frosts.<br \/>\nDahlias vary in height upto 6 feet. In autumn lift and store with about 6 inches of stem left on the tubers<br \/>\nGladioli are colourful additions to your garden and make excellent cut flowers.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Jedburgh begonia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7649313074\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7132\/7649313074_0d54fbfdcc.jpg\" alt=\"Jedburgh begonia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Personal Favourites<\/strong><br \/>\nIn addition to the above I currently love Lilies. I have planted over 150 of the Oriental varieties this year.<br \/>\nFreesias would be a favourite for the scent alone if only they were easier to grow &#8211; this year I am not bothering!<br \/>\nSparaxis can be quite vivid if they get enough sun and are protected from winter frost.<br \/>\nChincherinchee are late spring flowers also sold under the latin name of Ornitogalum thyrsoides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliable flowering can be expected from summer bulbs and tubers. Early Summer Flowering Alliums flower May-July, I like those that look like a burst of stars Anemone start in April with the woodland varieties then come the blousy De Caen and larger corm types through summer Dutch Iris look good for a short while in midsummer but I find I get poor results in containers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420","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=15420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}