{"id":7236,"date":"2010-05-08T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2010-05-07T08:40:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:40:59","slug":"growing-different-daisy-flowers-townsendia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-different-daisy-flowers-townsendia\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Different Daisy Flowers &#8220;Townsendia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Townsendia formosa \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4583711292\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4023\/4583711292_95bbbddde7.jpg\" alt=\"Townsendia formosa\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This genus of conspicuous Aster like flowers deserves to be better known.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Habits of Townsendia<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> This perennial genus comes from North America and Mexico.<\/li>\n<li>Some Townsendia are tall, erect plants, like typical daisies, others form small,  leafy rosettes, or have a sprawling, prostrate appearance.<\/li>\n<li>The plants like a sunny well drained spot or they will be short lived.<\/li>\n<li>Sow seed in gritty compost and surround plants with grit or gravel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some Species of Townsendia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Townsendia formosa shown above has lilac coloured flowers above thin narrow foliage.<\/li>\n<li>Townsedia grandiflora has large violet flowers 1-2&#8243; wide on 5-10&#8243; stems in summer.<\/li>\n<li>Townsendia exscapa has white or pale pink flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Information on the other 20+ species by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/nwx7115p88741405\/\">L M Shultz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This genus of conspicuous Aster like flowers deserves to be better known. Growing Habits of Townsendia This perennial genus comes from North America and Mexico. Some Townsendia are tall, erect plants, like typical daisies, others form small, leafy rosettes, or have a sprawling, prostrate appearance. The plants like a sunny well drained spot or they will be short lived. Sow seed in gritty compost and surround plants with grit or gravel. Some Species of Townsendia. Townsendia formosa shown above has&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-different-daisy-flowers-townsendia\/\"> 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":[188,10],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery","category-flowers","tag-perennial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236","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=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}