{"id":6554,"date":"2013-10-21T09:50:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6554"},"modified":"2013-10-19T07:13:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T14:13:09","slug":"growing-scilla-mischtschenkoana-or-squills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-scilla-mischtschenkoana-or-squills\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Scilla mischtschenkoana or Squills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More spring bulbs to try on for size.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Scilla mischtschenkoana \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4406952016\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2770\/4406952016_44ddb7b52a.jpg\" alt=\"Scilla mischtschenkoana\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nScilla commonly know as Squills are a group of bulbs for outdoor and Alpine house growing. The ice-blue flowers of  Scilla mischtschenkoana open out almost flat, first appear in February and continue well into March. Sunshine and a well-drained soil will make them at home in a bed or in thin grass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other members of the family include<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scilla bifolia -one of the earliest bulbs to flower, often with the snowdrops. It has a raceme of small, intense blue starry flowers.<\/li>\n<li> Scilla sibirica \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSpring Beauty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is taller and has nodding flowers of intense royal blue during March or April.<\/li>\n<li> Scilla peruviana  has large heads of deep violet-blue flowers with strap like leaves.<\/li>\n<li> Scilla lilio-hyacinthus. prefers woodland habitats with broad, fleshy leaves and pyramidal heads of sky-blue excelling in a cool, humus rich soil.<\/li>\n<p><a title=\"Scillia bifolia \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4406950258\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4015\/4406950258_b6452602d7.jpg\" alt=\"Scillia bifolia\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scilla bifolia above and Scilla mischtschenkoana growing outdoors in a gravel bed below<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Scilla mischtschenkoana \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4406910734\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4058\/4406910734_0156226c1c.jpg\" alt=\"Scilla mischtschenkoana\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13447\">See <\/a> &#8216;Why don&#8217;t my Scilla look like this?&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More spring bulbs to try on for size. Scilla commonly know as Squills are a group of bulbs for outdoor and Alpine house growing. The ice-blue flowers of Scilla mischtschenkoana open out almost flat, first appear in February and continue well into March. Sunshine and a well-drained soil will make them at home in a bed or in thin grass. Other members of the family include Scilla bifolia -one of the earliest bulbs to flower, often with the snowdrops. It&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-scilla-mischtschenkoana-or-squills\/\"> 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":[10,233],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-6554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-growing-easy-plants","tag-bulbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554","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=6554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}