{"id":1795,"date":"2014-02-08T00:04:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T07:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2014-02-08T02:35:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T09:35:05","slug":"signs-spring-is-arriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/signs-spring-is-arriving\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of a new Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days are getting longer, light is getting brighter and my green fingers are twitching.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1796\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/signs-spring-is-arriving\/attachment\/back-garden\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1796\" title=\"back-garden\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/back-garden.jpg\" alt=\"back-garden\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/back-garden.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/back-garden-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have many signs that the sap is rising and spring is arriving in the near future. This is just a few of those signs that may or may not be familiar to you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My allocation of <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/nearly-free-seeds\/\">free seeds <\/a>from the Royal Horticultural Society  and AGS arrived this week with a germination guide. This is always a Spring treat for me as it is very tactile opening an envelope of 20 packets of unusual seeds.<\/li>\n<li>Seed potatoes are on sale loose in the garden centres at least in the ones near me.<\/li>\n<li>Longer days are a sure sign of better things to come even though one of those things may be more snow.<\/li>\n<li>Specialist catalogues arrive almost daily from Woolmans for Chrysanthemums, Dibleys for Streptocarpus and Parkers for a mix of wholesale bulbs and plants.<\/li>\n<li>I nearly\u00c2\u00a0 forgot to mention Aconites, Snowdrops and Hellebores now in flower.<\/li>\n<li>My Christmas garden tokens are all spent up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days are getting longer, light is getting brighter and my green fingers are twitching. I have many signs that the sap is rising and spring is arriving in the near future. This is just a few of those signs that may or may not be familiar to you. My allocation of free seeds from the Royal Horticultural Society and AGS arrived this week with a germination guide. This is always a Spring treat for me as it is very tactile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/signs-spring-is-arriving\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","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=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}