{"id":445,"date":"2017-01-19T01:17:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T01:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2017-01-04T08:58:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T08:58:50","slug":"brash-colour-and-rudbeckia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/brash-colour-and-rudbeckia\/","title":{"rendered":"Colourful Rudbeckia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/rudbeckia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float-left\" title=\"rudbeckia\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/rudbeckia-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"rudbeckia\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am never all that confident about mixing such strong colours in my garden. Needless to say therefore this picture was taken in a public park on the Victoria Embankment Garden. I was chased off the grass before I could get a better picture.<\/p>\n<p>The tropical leaves provide green relief from the purples, reds and hot yellows. Somehow I am not convinced that this colour scheme would fit in my Northern garden.<\/p>\n<p>The Rubeckia hardy perennials do grow with other members of the Compositea clan in my garden. Although many varieties like the <strong>Rudbeckia hirtas<\/strong> are recommended as half hardy annuals.<\/p>\n<p>The AGM goes to the <strong>Rudbeckia speciosa<\/strong> for its large yellow flowers with a black centre and <strong>Rudbeckia triloba<\/strong> Brown Eyed Susan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am never all that confident about mixing such strong colours in my garden. Needless to say therefore this picture was taken in a public park on the Victoria Embankment Garden. I was chased off the grass before I could get a better picture. The tropical leaves provide green relief from the purples, reds and hot yellows. Somehow I am not convinced that this colour scheme would fit in my Northern garden. The Rubeckia hardy perennials do grow with other&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/brash-colour-and-rudbeckia\/\"> 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}