{"id":18471,"date":"2017-06-09T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18471"},"modified":"2017-06-09T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T09:51:10","slug":"quick-facts-about-allium-christophii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/quick-facts-about-allium-christophii\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Facts about Allium christophii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18473\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sq-allium-1024x958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sq-allium-1024x958.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sq-allium-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sq-allium-768x719.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Allium christophii, common name Star of Persia or Persian onion. Perhaps they have dropped the religious &#8216;h&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 to become Allium cristophii as a nod to the Iranian roots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Three Quick Facts about Allium christophii<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The clusters of &#8216;stary&#8217; flowers look good in a vase, dry beautifully and hold their form for years.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">This allium is attractive to butterflies but not pests.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Grow your own Allium christophii, by collecting seed sowing them when just ripe or\u00c2\u00a0 remove offsets in autumn. You get three seed capsules from each star flower.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7271\/7467595964_9d187ba3fa.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allium christophii, common name Star of Persia or Persian onion. Perhaps they have dropped the religious &#8216;h&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 to become Allium cristophii as a nod to the Iranian roots. Three Quick Facts about Allium christophii The clusters of &#8216;stary&#8217; flowers look good in a vase, dry beautifully and hold their form for years. This allium is attractive to butterflies but not pests. Grow your own Allium christophii, by collecting seed sowing them when just ripe or\u00c2\u00a0 remove offsets in autumn. You&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/quick-facts-about-allium-christophii\/\"> 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":[237,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floristry-house-greenhouse-plants","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18471","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=18471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}