{"id":7678,"date":"2010-06-04T02:14:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T09:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7678"},"modified":"2010-06-04T02:14:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T09:14:54","slug":"growing-hesperis-matronalis-alba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-hesperis-matronalis-alba\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Hesperis matronalis Alba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hesperis matronalis Alba \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4666583527\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4014\/4666583527_3226de3d9e.jpg\" alt=\"Hesperis matronalis Alba\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hesperis is a hardy biennial that flowers in blue, purple or white. It is easy to grow from seed and flowers through summer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The main charm is the scent that you get in an evening from the masses of 18&#8243;-36&#8243; high plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Ideal for the middle of borders, Cottage\u00c2\u00a0Gardens, Wild\u00c2\u00a0Gardens or a Wildlife\u00c2\u00a0Garden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Charming large spikes of single  flowers attract hoverflies and insects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sowing and Growing Instructions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimum Germination Temperature: 60-65F (15-18C).<\/li>\n<li>Sowing Depth:  1\/8 Inch (3 mm).<\/li>\n<li>Sow in late spring\/early  summer\u00c2\u00a0 thin out or\u00c2\u00a0 plant  out in their flowering positions in early autumn.<\/li>\n<li>Space the plants 30cm (12in) apart in full sun or part shade.<\/li>\n<li>Plants self-sow freely in good soil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seeds are available to plant now from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=&lt;b&gt;hesperis&lt;\/b&gt;\"> Thompson Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hesperis is a hardy biennial that flowers in blue, purple or white. It is easy to grow from seed and flowers through summer. The main charm is the scent that you get in an evening from the masses of 18&#8243;-36&#8243; high plants. Ideal for the middle of borders, Cottage\u00c2\u00a0Gardens, Wild\u00c2\u00a0Gardens or a Wildlife\u00c2\u00a0Garden. Charming large spikes of single flowers attract hoverflies and insects. Sowing and Growing Instructions Optimum Germination Temperature: 60-65F (15-18C). Sowing Depth: 1\/8 Inch (3 mm). Sow in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-hesperis-matronalis-alba\/\"> 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":[131,38,99],"class_list":["post-7678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-easy-plants","tag-biennial","tag-fragrance-and-scent","tag-scent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678","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=7678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}