{"id":7129,"date":"2010-04-27T00:27:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T07:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2010-04-26T06:07:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:07:47","slug":"the-power-of-a-giant-flower-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/the-power-of-a-giant-flower-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of a Giant Flower Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thompson-morgan.com\/res\/images\/flower-tower.jpg\" title=\"Flower Tower\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Public gardens are building more towers of flowers using bedding plants like Busy Lizzy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Own Edifice<\/strong><br \/>\nOn a small scale you can grow mound for pounds by buying mini plugs.<br \/>\nBuild a shape using chicken wire or proper units and incorporate containers at varying levels.<br \/>\nInstal a watering or irrigation method as you build.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nPlants to Use<\/strong><br \/>\nBusy Lizzie are a great start as the have a loose habit and will flower in some shade and that will be important if the structure is 360 degrees around<br \/>\nTrailing petunias will aslo do well at covering the structure quickly.<br \/>\nTyrolean window boxes should also provide the idea of using red trailing geraniums<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thompson-morgan.com\/info\/plants\/maxi-tower\">Thompson Morgan <\/a> supplied the photograph and have an advisory service for those interested in the &#8216;Maxi Tower&#8217; large structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public gardens are building more towers of flowers using bedding plants like Busy Lizzy. Your Own Edifice On a small scale you can grow mound for pounds by buying mini plugs. Build a shape using chicken wire or proper units and incorporate containers at varying levels. Instal a watering or irrigation method as you build. Plants to Use Busy Lizzie are a great start as the have a loose habit and will flower in some shade and that will be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/the-power-of-a-giant-flower-tower\/\"> 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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129","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=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}