{"id":652,"date":"2014-10-06T02:27:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T09:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2014-09-29T01:19:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T08:19:05","slug":"gerbera-us-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/gerbera-us-a-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerbera us a Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gerberas-a-smile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-653\" title=\"gerberas-a-smile\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gerberas-a-smile.jpg\" alt=\"Gerbera smile\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gerberas-a-smile.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gerberas-a-smile-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9610\">Gerberas<\/a><\/strong> often make us smile but this flower is trying to smile for us. Like my jokes it is nothing to laugh at.<\/p>\n<p>A popular house plant the Gerbera has radiant, single or double flowers. They look like their relatives the\u00c2\u00a0 daisy family. Best known for the range of strong colours you often see one stem in a vase. The flowers <strong>last well as cut flowers<\/strong> and are a regular feature in florists arrangements. They also make a colour full display on this web page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/salmon-gerbera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-654\" title=\"salmon-gerbera\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/salmon-gerbera-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/salmon-gerbera-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/salmon-gerbera.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> The ray floret petals are a pale salmon with a distinctive and typical centre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/double-double.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-655\" title=\"double-double\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/double-double-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/double-double-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/double-double.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> A couple of doubles, a doppleganger of a Gerbera<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/centre-of-attraction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-656\" title=\"centre-of-attraction\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/centre-of-attraction-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/centre-of-attraction-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/centre-of-attraction.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>All the central disc florets are open on this orange Gerbera<\/p>\n<p>For some more pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microscopy-uk.org.uk\/mag\/indexmag.html?http:\/\/www.microscopy-uk.org.uk\/mag\/artmar07\/bj-gerbera.html\">Gerbera try <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerberas often make us smile but this flower is trying to smile for us. Like my jokes it is nothing to laugh at. A popular house plant the Gerbera has radiant, single or double flowers. They look like their relatives the\u00c2\u00a0 daisy family. Best known for the range of strong colours you often see one stem in a vase. The flowers last well as cut flowers and are a regular feature in florists arrangements. They also make a colour full&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/gerbera-us-a-smile\/\"> 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":[10,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-house-greenhouse-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}