{"id":18425,"date":"2017-06-05T17:31:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18425"},"modified":"2017-06-05T18:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T17:56:32","slug":"alstroemeria-interesting-facts-aka-peruvian-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alstroemeria-interesting-facts-aka-peruvian-lily\/","title":{"rendered":"Alstroemeria Interesting Facts  AKA Peruvian Lily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18426\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Peruvian-lily-1024x710.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Peruvian-lily-1024x710.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Peruvian-lily-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Peruvian-lily-768x532.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">Alstroemeria are a herbaceous perennial with mid-green, lance-shaped leaves and terminal clusters. Petals often have distinctive markings. They originate from Peru, Brazil and mainly Chile which also earned them the name &#8216;Lily of the Incas&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Interesting facts about <span class=\"st\">Alstroemeria<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"st\">They are well known as a cut flower due to the bright colours and long vase life often of over 2 weeks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>When picking the flowers do not cut the stems but pull them vertically with a bit of white subsoil stem. This encourages more flowers through the year.<\/li>\n<li>Species and varieties can vary from 12 inches high to 6 feet tall.<\/li>\n<li>After extensive breeding there are many new varieties in colour, petal shape and style.<\/li>\n<li>The genus has 50 species of tuberous rooted perennials only a few of which are hardy in the UK<\/li>\n<li>Sap from the foliage may cause skin irritation<\/li>\n<li>Grown in a large deep pot the plants bulk up successfully providing a good display and flowers for the house.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Alstromeria in large Vase\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4549966143\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4059\/4549966143_fd26d403df.jpg\" alt=\"Alstromeria\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alstromeria are available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=alstromeria\">Thompson &amp; Morgan\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alstroemeria are a herbaceous perennial with mid-green, lance-shaped leaves and terminal clusters. Petals often have distinctive markings. They originate from Peru, Brazil and mainly Chile which also earned them the name &#8216;Lily of the Incas&#8217; Interesting facts about Alstroemeria They are well known as a cut flower due to the bright colours and long vase life often of over 2 weeks. When picking the flowers do not cut the stems but pull them vertically with a bit of white subsoil&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alstroemeria-interesting-facts-aka-peruvian-lily\/\"> 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-18425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425","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=18425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}