{"id":7232,"date":"2010-05-07T08:14:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2011-06-29T05:26:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T12:26:36","slug":"grow-ericaceous-cassiope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/grow-ericaceous-cassiope\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow Ericaceous Cassiope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cassiope Badenoch \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4583081701\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4060\/4583081701_6077e4a6ba.jpg\" alt=\"Cassiope Badenoch\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cassiope are a valuable group of small  wiry stemmed ericaceous perennials with  white bell-like flowers blooming in spring. Leaves are unstalked and densely overlap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips for Growing Cassiope<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grow in lime free sandy or mossy soil. Very hardy if given good drainage.<\/li>\n<li>The smaller varieties are good alpine house and pot plants growing below 12&#8243; high.<\/li>\n<li>Plants are cheap to buy and can be propagated from cuttings or by pegging down.<\/li>\n<li>Plants hybridise quite easily.<\/li>\n<li>Grow in a cool shady or semi-shady places in the rock garden or shrub border.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hybrids and Species to Grow<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cassiope Randle Cooke is a super little Cassiope with deep green leaves closely clasping the stems.<\/li>\n<li>Cassiope Badenoch shown above has a mass of off-white bell shaped flowers<\/li>\n<li>Cassiope Edinburgh another wiry stemmed ericaceous perennial with tightly packed deep green leaves and larger white bell-like flowers in spring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><!--more-->Cassiope mertensiana is a  shrubby dwarf evergreen perennial with pale green glossy leaves<\/li>\n<li>Cassiope tetragona (common names include Arctic bell-heather,<\/li>\n<li>Cassiope ericoides<\/li>\n<li>Cassiope fastigiata<\/li>\n<li>Cassiope hypnoides<\/li>\n<li>Cassiope selaginoides<\/li>\n<li>Cassiope stelle Riana<\/li>\n<li>Cassiope wardii are all part of the 11 species of Cassiope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have difficulty finding plants try Alpine specialists or The Plant Finder.<\/p>\n<p>For something a bit different read <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-calceolaria\/\">Growing Calceolaria<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassiope are a valuable group of small wiry stemmed ericaceous perennials with white bell-like flowers blooming in spring. Leaves are unstalked and densely overlap. Tips for Growing Cassiope Grow in lime free sandy or mossy soil. Very hardy if given good drainage. The smaller varieties are good alpine house and pot plants growing below 12&#8243; high. Plants are cheap to buy and can be propagated from cuttings or by pegging down. Plants hybridise quite easily. Grow in a cool shady&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/grow-ericaceous-cassiope\/\"> 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":[188,233],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-7232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery","category-growing-easy-plants","tag-perennial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232","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=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}