{"id":467,"date":"2013-02-12T00:06:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T07:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2013-02-12T01:52:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T08:52:33","slug":"august-wild-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/august-wild-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"August Wild Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/august-wild-flowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-468\" title=\"august-wild-flowers\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/august-wild-flowers.jpg\" alt=\"Augyst Wild Flower Garden\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/august-wild-flowers.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/august-wild-flowers-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wild flower gardens are generally thought to be at their best in spring but this colourful patch was a riot of colour in the middle of August.<\/p>\n<h3>Gardeners Tips for Wild Flowers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Poor soil conditions encourage flowering. Do not fertilise wild flower gardens<\/li>\n<li>Group flowers with similar flowering times together. it would look to thin and patchy to have a mix of spring and Autumn flowers together.<\/li>\n<li>Do not be too quick to tidy up. Let the seeds develop and drop so that annual plants renew themselves for next season.<\/li>\n<li>If possible avoid competition from grass particularly for autumn wild flower gardens as they can choke off the flowering plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4834247435\/\" title=\"wild flowers by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4150\/4834247435_dc18eba50f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"394\" alt=\"wild flowers\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Flower Mixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General; purpose meadow mixtures may contain, cowslip, oxeye daisy, knapweed, buttercup, campion, vetch and yarrow amongst others.<\/li>\n<li>Hedgerow mixtures may have wood avens, plantains, agrimony, cowslip, oxeye daisy and knapweed,<\/li>\n<li>Cornfield mixture as above  will have corn cockle, cornflower and poppy and Forget-me-not<\/li>\n<li>You can also get mixtures for sowing in wet marshes or for pond edges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild flower gardens are generally thought to be at their best in spring but this colourful patch was a riot of colour in the middle of August. Gardeners Tips for Wild Flowers Poor soil conditions encourage flowering. Do not fertilise wild flower gardens Group flowers with similar flowering times together. it would look to thin and patchy to have a mix of spring and Autumn flowers together. Do not be too quick to tidy up. Let the seeds develop and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/august-wild-flowers\/\"> 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":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}