{"id":18286,"date":"2017-05-06T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18286"},"modified":"2017-05-06T15:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T14:03:49","slug":"camassia-flowers-and-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/bulb\/camassia-flowers-and-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Camassia Flowers and Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18289 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/first-test-026a-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/first-test-026a-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/first-test-026a-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some Camassia species were an important food staple for Native Americans and settlers in parts of North American<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Camassia quamash or wild hyacinth will naturalise in grass and is happy in moist ground.<\/li>\n<li>These bulbs have a reputation of being tough and hardy and thrive in less than perfect soils.<\/li>\n<li>Camassia leichtlinii is a spring flowering bulb with spires of creamy-white flowers although the more normal powder blue varieties are more often planted.<\/li>\n<li>Camassia prefer to grow undisturbed and are not ideal for containers.<\/li>\n<li>Flowers open in spring and attract bees for their nectar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Death Camases are liliaceous, perennial herbs and are not edible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18292 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/first-test-030-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/first-test-030-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/first-test-030-1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/first-test-030-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/first-test-030-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Camassia species were an important food staple for Native Americans and settlers in parts of North American Camassia quamash or wild hyacinth will naturalise in grass and is happy in moist ground. These bulbs have a reputation of being tough and hardy and thrive in less than perfect soils. Camassia leichtlinii is a spring flowering bulb with spires of creamy-white flowers although the more normal powder blue varieties are more often planted. Camassia prefer to grow undisturbed and are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/bulb\/camassia-flowers-and-food\/\"> 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":[265],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-18286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulb","tag-bulbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286","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=18286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}