{"id":5239,"date":"2016-04-09T09:59:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T16:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2016-04-08T07:40:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:40:18","slug":"saxifraga-fortunei-cherry-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/saxifraga-fortunei-cherry-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Saxifraga Fortunei Cherry Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Saxifraga Fortunei Cherry Pie by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4062060796\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2673\/4062060796_5159c09d14.jpg\" alt=\"Saxifrage Fortunei Cherry Pie\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saxifraga Fortunei &#8216;Cherry Pie&#8217; looks good from late August through Autumn with these cherry coloured flowers. It is recommended as a good plant for moist woodland as it is happy with partial shade. Grows 8-10&#8243; tall with flowering spikes above bright palmate, green leaves.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saxifraga.org\/default.asp\">Saxifrage society<\/a> modestly claims to be &#8216;the only international organization dedicated to the best plants in the world; the genus Saxifraga or Rockfoils and its relatives.&#8217; They have 480 species to go at in three groups or sections the &#8220;mossies&#8221; (Saxifraga), the &#8220;silvers&#8221; ( Ligulatae) and the Kabschia and Engleria subsections ( Porphyrion).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0881928801\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0881928801.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am just getting interested in growing some of these plants and I will see how I get on. The Saxifrage Society is to be represented with a display stand at the RHS Harlow Carr Alpine weekend 15-17 April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>For some it becomes a consuming passion or so I am told. Many saxifrages come from mountain habitats that make them well-suited to rock gardens, troughs, and containers.<\/p>\n<p>The increasing interest in Alpines and rock-gardening has resulted in the introduction of countless new varieties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saxifraga Fortunei &#8216;Cherry Pie&#8217; looks good from late August through Autumn with these cherry coloured flowers. It is recommended as a good plant for moist woodland as it is happy with partial shade. Grows 8-10&#8243; tall with flowering spikes above bright palmate, green leaves. The Saxifrage society modestly claims to be &#8216;the only international organization dedicated to the best plants in the world; the genus Saxifraga or Rockfoils and its relatives.&#8217; They have 480 species to go at in three&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/saxifraga-fortunei-cherry-pie\/\"> 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":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239","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=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}