{"id":5849,"date":"2012-01-26T05:21:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T12:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:02:29","slug":"euphorbia-rigida-in-a-succulent-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/euphorbia-rigida-in-a-succulent-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Euphorbia rigida in a Succulent Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Euphorbia rigidia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4285166741\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2774\/4285166741_1a5601af08.jpg\" alt=\"Euphorbia rigidia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Recognise Euphorbia rigida<\/h3>\n<p>Euphorbia rigida is a choice evergreen Euphorbia with blue\/green fleshy leaves arranged in spiralled whorls around the stem. It has a lax habit with several stems up to 2 feet long.<br \/>\nThe flower buds are pink opening to an acid yellow in spring or early summer. This specimen was photographed in the new alpine house at the RHS garden Harlow Carr.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kewonflickr\/5553154290\/\" title=\"Euphoriba rigida by Kew on Flickr, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5138\/5553154290_096a6fafee.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Euphoriba rigida\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Euphorbia rigida Cultivation Tips<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Euphorbia rigida prefers light, well-drained soil in full sun, but tolerates a wide variety of habitats.<br \/>\nBeth Chatto grows them in her &#8216;Dry Garden&#8217; near Colchester.<br \/>\nPropagate from seed or by stem cuttings but let the cut surface to callous over before planting.<br \/>\nEuphorbia collections can be created to display a wide variety of textures and architectural features.<br \/>\nEuphorbia rigida  blooms more reliably in poor soil. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kewonflickr\/5553152150\/\" title=\"Euphorbia rigida by Kew on Flickr, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5023\/5553152150_678db27e2d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Euphorbia rigida\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about top ten<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-top-ten-euphorbia\/\"> Euphorbia<\/a><br \/>\nMany plants are sold under the name Euphorbia rigida but all should have this spiky sort of appearance to the leaf.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1845333764\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1845333764.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Credits<br \/>\nTwo images of Euphorbia rigida by Kew CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euphorbia rigida is a choice evergreen with acid yellow flowers and blue\/green fleshy leaves arranged in spiralled whorls around the stem<\/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-5849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849","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=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}