{"id":7462,"date":"2010-05-24T00:33:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T07:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7462"},"modified":"2011-02-08T02:27:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T09:27:49","slug":"growing-camassia-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-camassia-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Camassia Bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Camassia Clump\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4622538172\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3362\/4622538172_3eafa0cc55.jpg\" alt=\"cha\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCamassia is a genus of summer flowering bulbs that naturalises well in gardens. The leafless flower spikes have blue and occasionally violet or white star shaped flowers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Culture and Growing Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The plant thrives in moist conditions in meadows, alongside streams and near ponds.<\/li>\n<li> The soil needs to be high in humus, not waterlogged and otherwise the plant is easy to grow \u00c2\u00a0 forming\u00c2\u00a0 big clumps.<\/li>\n<li> Camassia may be divided in autumn after the leaves have withered.<\/li>\n<li> Bulbs should be planted 4&#8243; deep in the autumn. Additionally the plant spreads by seed.<\/li>\n<li> Leaves are slow to die down when grown in grass.<\/li>\n<li>Flower spikes range from 1&#8242; to 5&#8242; tall dependent on variety.<\/li>\n<li>Grow nfrom fresh seed or offsets from around the main bulb<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Camassia \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4607093908\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1428\/4607093908_9c55997481.jpg\" alt=\"Camassia\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Camassia Varieties <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Camassia cusickii produces clumps of long, linear, wavy-margined, ridged  leaves.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Camassia leichtlinii subsp. suksdorfii is taller, with deep  violet-blue flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Camassia quamash is much shorter than other Camassias<\/li>\n<li>Semiplena has\u00c2\u00a0 a dense spike of double, creamy white flowers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Plant Companions<\/strong><br \/>\nPlant with forget-me-nots, bleeding heartor solomon&#8217;s seal. If naturalised in  a meadow they look good with buttercups, cowslips and Pheasant&#8217;s eyed narcissus.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camassia\">Wikipedia<\/a> species lists<\/p>\n<p>* Camassia angusta &#8211; Prairie Camas<br \/>\n* Camassia cusickii &#8211; Cusick&#8217;s Camas (occurs in eastern Oregon)<br \/>\n* Camassia howellii &#8211; Howell&#8217;s Camas<br \/>\n* Camassia leichtlinii &#8211; Large Camas, Great Camas (occurs west of the Cascade Mountains from British Columbia to the Sierra Nevada).<br \/>\no Camassia leichtlinii ssp. leichtlinii : Large Camas<br \/>\no Camassia leichtlinii ssp. suksdorfii : Suksdorf&#8217;s Large Camas<br \/>\n* Camassia quamash &#8211; Quamash, Indian Camas, Small Camas.<br \/>\n* Camassia scilloides &#8211; Atlantic Camas, Bear grass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camassia is a genus of summer flowering bulbs that naturalises well in gardens. The leafless flower spikes have blue and occasionally violet or white star shaped flowers. Culture and Growing Tips The plant thrives in moist conditions in meadows, alongside streams and near ponds. The soil needs to be high in humus, not waterlogged and otherwise the plant is easy to grow \u00c2\u00a0 forming\u00c2\u00a0 big clumps. Camassia may be divided in autumn after the leaves have withered. Bulbs should be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-camassia-bulbs\/\"> 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":[233],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-7462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-easy-plants","tag-bulbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462","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=7462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}