{"id":261,"date":"2016-01-16T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2016-01-13T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T19:54:04","slug":"hebe-aka-veronica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/hebe-aka-veronica\/","title":{"rendered":"Hebe also known as Veronica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hebe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float-left aligncenter\" title=\"hebe\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hebe-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hebe\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong> Horticultural Points for Hebe<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Evergreen shrubs keeping shape and form through winter<\/li>\n<li>Ornamental planting invaluable at the seaside and as an ornamental hedge.<\/li>\n<li>Easy to grow from cuttings<\/li>\n<li>Varieties available that grow in many sizes.<\/li>\n<li>Useful for low maintenance areas as the larger varieties fill the space quickly.<\/li>\n<li>White and purple flowering varieties more popular and floriferous than the red flowers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Aesthetic Qualities<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Long racemes or spikes of flowers\u00c2\u00a0 attract bees and hoverfly<\/li>\n<li>Colour range from purple, lavender, blue and stunning white due to the volume of flower from June to late summer depending on variety.<\/li>\n<li>Dwarf varieties and shrublets, H. &#8216;gibbsii&#8217; and H. &#8216;subsimilis astonii&#8217; upto six foot specimens with H. &#8216;cupressoides&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Purple leaved varieties including H. Midsummer Beauty<\/li>\n<li>Hebes in flower attract insects particularly bees and hoverflies<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horticultural Points for Hebe Evergreen shrubs keeping shape and form through winter Ornamental planting invaluable at the seaside and as an ornamental hedge. Easy to grow from cuttings Varieties available that grow in many sizes. Useful for low maintenance areas as the larger varieties fill the space quickly. White and purple flowering varieties more popular and floriferous than the red flowers. Aesthetic Qualities Long racemes or spikes of flowers\u00c2\u00a0 attract bees and hoverfly Colour range from purple, lavender, blue and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/hebe-aka-veronica\/\"> 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":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}