{"id":346,"date":"2013-02-04T01:13:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T08:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2013-02-04T01:49:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T08:49:59","slug":"cornflower-double-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/cornflower-double-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornflower Double Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/black-ball-cornflower-comp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-345\" title=\"black-ball-cornflower-comp\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/black-ball-cornflower-comp.jpg\" alt=\"Cornflower Centaurea cyanus\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/black-ball-cornflower-comp.jpg 983w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/black-ball-cornflower-comp-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This old garden favourite is an easy annual to grow from seed. Cornflower blue is the common form sometimes called &#8216;Bluebottle&#8217; with its fluffy ball like heads and a strong clear blue colour.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This plant is Black boy and grows up too three feet tall.<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li>The flowers are good for cutting or for growing in a pot for the cold greenhouse<\/li>\n<li>Dwarf varieties come in a polkadot of colours including blue,maroon, purple, red, lilac pink, and white.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of plant and fun for \u00c2\u00a31.50 or so. Good for children to grow. Easy to collect the seed for next year<\/li>\n<li>Grow with other plants for support or put in a few hazel sticks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4010712187\/\" title=\"Cornflower by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3486\/4010712187_0c575722e5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Cornflower\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cornflower is also available in pink as can be seen above. It is interesting how the bees make a bee line for these nectar rich flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This old garden favourite is an easy annual to grow from seed. Cornflower blue is the common form sometimes called &#8216;Bluebottle&#8217; with its fluffy ball like heads and a strong clear blue colour. This plant is Black boy and grows up too three feet tall.<\/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-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}