{"id":5882,"date":"2013-12-29T06:58:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T13:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2013-12-29T09:21:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T16:21:14","slug":"polygala-chamaebuxus-grandiflora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/polygala-chamaebuxus-grandiflora\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bastard box has colourful scented flowers and dubious parentage.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora in snow on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4285123287\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4043\/4285123287_490ccc0cbb.jpg\" alt=\"Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora\" width=\"467\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora is a low maintenance, hardy, evergreen sub-shrub also known as Creeping Milkwort, Chapparal Pea or Bastard Box. It bears racemes of purple-pink and yellow, pea-like flowers. Flowering is fragrant and profuse in late winter to very early spring, often with  further blooms in summer. <\/p>\n<p>Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora  is capable of forming a hump up to ten inches tall, but  is generally flat to the ground and only two or three inches tall.  Spread is\u00c2\u00a0 slow up to 2 feet but not fast enough for serious ground cover. This makes it useful in an Alpine garden setting.<\/p>\n<p>They are underutilized plants for flowering early in the new year.  It is worth finding some of these small plants and looking closely at the <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.co.uk\/images?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;hs=x0n&amp;resnum=0&amp;q=Polygala%20chamaebuxus%20grandiflora&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi\">flowers as shown here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nPolygala calcarea is a British native suitable for ppot culture. Other pot varieties include Polygala vaytredae and Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora purpurea.<br \/>\nPolygala paucifolia is evregreen and shruby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bastard box has colourful scented flowers and dubious parentage. Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora is a low maintenance, hardy, evergreen sub-shrub also known as Creeping Milkwort, Chapparal Pea or Bastard Box. It bears racemes of purple-pink and yellow, pea-like flowers. Flowering is fragrant and profuse in late winter to very early spring, often with further blooms in summer. Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora is capable of forming a hump up to ten inches tall, but is generally flat to the ground and only two&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/polygala-chamaebuxus-grandiflora\/\"> 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":[188,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","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=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}