{"id":5838,"date":"2014-01-01T15:41:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2013-12-29T09:47:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T16:47:02","slug":"early-spring-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/early-spring-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Spring Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eye spy the first snowdrop of the year before the last rose is frozen to death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4024\/4301123948_681fb1b5e3.jpg\" alt=\"springflower\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The snow and exceptionally cold snap has delayed the first snowdrops, but, this weekend, I spotted the first snowdrops peeping through the soil. I love the way they suddenly just appear. You hardly have time to notice the leaves before they are in bloom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2693\/4300380069_c009f683df.jpg\" alt=\"springflower\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another great early spring flower is the yellow aconite. A low growing bulb, this looks great in mass planting and creates a great foil to the white snowdrops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4016\/4301129554_c12443e90b.jpg\" alt=\"springflower\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4046\/4300175123_b8b42afbea.jpg\" alt=\"springflower\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A single snowdrop<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4040\/4273586419_7d4d1d0841_o.jpg\" alt=\"springflower\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/yellow-snow-and-yellow-plants\/\">Yellow Witchazel <\/a>from our post &#8211; yellow plants<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4004\/4285917256_11b2230581.jpg\" alt=\"springflower\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hellebores &#8211; another excellent early season plant &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/gardening-with-hellebores\/\">Gardening with Hellebores<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/design\/top-ten-snowdrop-locations\/\">Best Snowdrop gardens in England<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eye spy the first snowdrop of the year before the last rose is frozen to death. The snow and exceptionally cold snap has delayed the first snowdrops, but, this weekend, I spotted the first snowdrops peeping through the soil. I love the way they suddenly just appear. You hardly have time to notice the leaves before they are in bloom. Another great early spring flower is the yellow aconite. A low growing bulb, this looks great in mass planting and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/early-spring-flowers\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/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-5838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838","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=5838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}