{"id":291,"date":"2012-08-27T01:06:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T08:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2012-08-27T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T13:38:11","slug":"oxalis-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/oxalis-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxalis bulbs and Rhizomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/oxalis1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nGrown from bulbs, rhizomes or tubers the Wood Sorrel and many of it&#8217;s relative in the Oxalis family are easy to grow.<br \/>\nThe shamrock shaped leaves of this low growing Oxalis flower in red, white, yellow, blue and pink. I bought 70 bulbs for \u00c2\u00a31 at Focus at the end of May and they have grown well already.<\/p>\n<h3>Cultivation Tips and Varieties to Grow<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Many varieties have a dark purple centre to the leaves  or a patterned purple cross as in O. Deppei.<\/li>\n<li>O. trangularis has white flowers and dark purple leaves.<\/li>\n<li>The lime green of the leaves O. Ironcross is a fresh bright green in spring and this can show off the edges of a border.<\/li>\n<li>Most hardy varieties make excellent ground cover or rock plants and flower even in dry shade and poor soil.<\/li>\n<li>Oxalis Adenophylla has pale lilac flowers and neat parasol like leaves<\/li>\n<li>Better flowering may occur with a bit of high phosphate fertilizer<\/li>\n<li>Flowers are sensitive to light levels and often close early in the day<\/li>\n<li>Tender varieties need to be dug up and stored like begonia tubers<\/li>\n<li>A new red and white funnel shaped flower is now available O Versicolour<\/li>\n<li>Many varieties self sow and get into nooks and crannies needing to be weeded out when they become too rampant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4282097673\/\" title=\"Oxalis cameaphylla rosea by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4052\/4282097673_5e5dfc5643.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Oxalis cameaphylla rosea\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Oxalis cameaphylla rosea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oxalis  roots can be fibrous or woody and be either bulbs, tubers, or rhizomes.<br \/>\nFor more information particularly about potted plants from South Africa and America visit the Oxalis web site<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5410413845\/\" title=\"Oxalis speciosa by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4136\/5410413845_af3ecc892b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Oxalis speciosa\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Oxalis speciosa <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do not need to be lucky to grow four leaved clover but green fingers will help grow Oxalis.<br \/>\nGrown from bulbs, rhizomes or tubers the Wood Sorrel and many of it&#8217;s relative in the Oxalis family are easy to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}