{"id":4921,"date":"2013-09-06T12:50:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T19:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2013-09-05T10:54:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:54:26","slug":"front-garden-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/front-garden-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Garden Dahlia Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3444\/3966095870_05e4514085.jpg\" alt=\"garden\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I spotted this front garden on Herschel Crescent, Oxford. It wins our Gardeners Tips  &#8216;Front garden competition of the year award&#8217;. I loved the riot of colour. Every inch of ground is used to create a stunning display.<\/p>\n<p>It illustrates what great value Dahlias can be. The best thing about Dahlias is the length of flowering season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2516\/3966102190_ce5cdab97f.jpg\" alt=\"garden\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dahlias on display<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2448\/3966097908_fa1964df34.jpg\" alt=\"garden\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hanging baskets everywhere<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2444\/3965319949_d80b8cca1c.jpg\" alt=\"garden\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A riot of colour<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2458\/3966104236_efacd5736e.jpg\" alt=\"garden\" \/><br \/>\nGreat Value plants &#8211; from seed they grow smaller as annuals but from tubers they vary from dinner plate size to the more refined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7442937254\/\" title=\"Dahlia X Hortensis Lubega by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7137\/7442937254_6edffe5773.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"468\" alt=\"Dahlia X Hortensis Lubega\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And my Dad&#8217;s favourite dahlia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3942370450\/\" title=\"Dahlia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2601\/3942370450_aa9743f714.jpg\" width=\"488\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Dahlia\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this front garden on Herschel Crescent, Oxford. It wins our Gardeners Tips &#8216;Front garden competition of the year award&#8217;. I loved the riot of colour. Every inch of ground is used to create a stunning display. It illustrates what great value Dahlias can be. The best thing about Dahlias is the length of flowering season. Dahlias on display Hanging baskets everywhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}