{"id":2335,"date":"2013-10-03T03:44:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T10:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2013-09-24T09:34:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T16:34:33","slug":"more-spring-shrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/more-spring-shrubs\/","title":{"rendered":"More Spring Shrubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the first shrubs to flower, each year, produce the best show<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5592375854\/\" title=\"Magnolia 11 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5223\/5592375854_5f731fc453.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Magnolia 11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnolia buds are just bursting on the top picture. This single Camellia has a vibrant colouring but has dropped some buds. The Rhododendron is a shocking pink for this time of year but what showy flowers.<\/p>\n<h3>Magnolia<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnoliasociety.org\/\">Magnolia society<\/a> promotes this astounding flowering shrub.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2337\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/more-spring-shrubs\/attachment\/camellia\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2337\" title=\"camellia\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/camellia.jpg\" alt=\"camellia\" width=\"447\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/camellia.jpg 447w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/camellia-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Camellia Bud Drop<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Unfortunately even healthy camellias particularly double flowered varieties may drop flower buds. When an excessively large number of buds have formed on the bush immature ones are shed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Very low winter temperatures may also be a cause of bud drop with tender cultivars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Some camellias bloom so late in certain areas that the new vigorous growth if shoots in spring causes many buds to abort.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Where plump apparently normal buds drop it is usually due to excessive feeding, applying nitrogen fertilisers too late in the season or the result of a period of drought particularly in summer as buds are forming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Container-grown camellias are particularly vulnerable to bud drop, as are camellias planted against walls or close to trees due to inconsistant watering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5592399722\/\" title=\"Camellia bicolour by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5026\/5592399722_b9bcf376c4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Camellia bicolour\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mahonia flower even earlier. They rely on a strong scent to attract what insects are around on sunny winter days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4578318899\/\" title=\"Mahonia 'Charity' by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4060\/4578318899_18d2f08190.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Mahonia 'Charity'\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the first shrubs to flower, each year, produce the best show Magnolia buds are just bursting on the top picture. This single Camellia has a vibrant colouring but has dropped some buds. The Rhododendron is a shocking pink for this time of year but what showy flowers. Magnolia The Magnolia society promotes this astounding flowering shrub. Camellia Bud Drop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,12],"tags":[146,145],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","category-pests-problems","tag-acid-lovers","tag-bud-drop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","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=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}