{"id":6934,"date":"2010-04-15T02:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T09:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2010-04-14T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T20:32:38","slug":"small-is-beautiful-particularly-amongst-alpines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/small-is-beautiful-particularly-amongst-alpines\/","title":{"rendered":"Small is Beautiful Particularly amongst Alpines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4458922517\/\" title=\"Saxifraga cranbourne \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2802\/4458922517_5822fd42fe.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Saxifraga cranbourne\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You do not need a large garden to grow a massive range of interesting plants and flowers. The 2p coin gives some impression of scale to this <strong>Saxfraga cranbourne<\/strong> which is about the same size as the coin. <\/p>\n<p>Note how it needs the protection of grit plus a sand and grit plunge bed as these small plants can easily be washed away and generally do not like damp roots.<br \/>\nMany alpines dislike wet foliage and would rot so I always water from below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4459704076\/\" title=\"Primula allianii Joan Hughes \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4003\/4459704076_6b5fd64495.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Primula allianii Joan Hughes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are many species of <strong>Primula<\/strong> that could form the basis of an interesting miniature collection. This photo is of Primula allianii Joan Hughes. There is a National Auricula and Primula <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auriculaandprimula.org.uk\/\">Society<\/a> if you get keenly interested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4521643594\/\" title=\"Androsace carnea pyrenaica \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4036\/4521643594_71f64aa1d4.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Androsace carnea pyrenaica\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Similarly there are many Androsace to collect and experiment with. This display, in a 4 inch pot, requires several plants of Androsace carnea pyrenaica together to make the interesting shoe.<br \/>\nThere is a specialist society within AGS for these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androsace.org.uk\/\">small plants<\/a> Androsace.org.<br \/>\nSee a range of other <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.co.uk\/images?q=Androsace&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&#038;um=1&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;sa=N&#038;hl=en&#038;tab=wi\">pictures here <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do not need a large garden to grow a massive range of interesting plants and flowers. The 2p coin gives some impression of scale to this Saxfraga cranbourne which is about the same size as the coin. Note how it needs the protection of grit plus a sand and grit plunge bed as these small plants can easily be washed away and generally do not like damp roots. Many alpines dislike wet foliage and would rot so I always&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/small-is-beautiful-particularly-amongst-alpines\/\"> 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934","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=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}