{"id":7911,"date":"2010-06-23T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T17:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2010-06-23T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T08:35:00","slug":"patriotic-perennials-in-red-white-and-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/patriotic-perennials-in-red-white-and-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriotic Perennials in Red, White and Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"everlasting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4706245567\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4066\/4706245567_d4a5991afe.jpg\" alt=\"sedbergh\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This selection of perennials are easy to grow and produce summer colours in a range of patriotic  blues, reds and whites.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-centaurea\/\">Centaurea<\/a><\/strong> shown above  has many varieties in different shades and is a good cottage garden plant. It grows2-3 feet tall and needs some support. It&#8217;s red colour is much more pink but the blue is strong and long lasting.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Geranium  \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3792340635\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3600\/3792340635_2f90a58900.jpg\" alt=\"Geranium  Rozane Gerwat\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hardy Geraniums<\/strong> are attractive and easy to grow. The colour range includes the purple to blue or pink and Splish-Splash<em> below<\/em> which is a white with occassional blue patch. My <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/black-geranium-cranesbill\/\">black geranium<\/a> has very poor flowers and rampant foliage.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pink  lupins \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4666543791\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4666543791_9f9ffc0cb1.jpg\" alt=\"lupins\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/grow-lupins-growing-lupinus-polyphyllus\/\">Lupins <\/a><\/strong>flowering above are another easy perennial. In addition to red, white and blue there are <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/russell-lupin-and-lupin-origins\/\">bi-coloured Lupins <\/a>with a white eye that can be very attractive. This pink looks a bit wishy washy in the photo but in real life it was a stunner.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Oriental Poppy r\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3856658348\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2601\/3856658348_b969b212da.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oriental Poppies are strongly coloured perennials but I have yet to see a blue one which is not a <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/tips-for-growing-meconopsis-the-blue-poppy\/\">Meconopsis.<\/a> There are many other <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-garden-poppies\/\">poppy<\/a> varieties to consider growing<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Geranium Splish Splash\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4706831110\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4058\/4706831110_2a155b95b0.jpg\" alt=\"Geranium\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This selection of perennials are easy to grow and produce summer colours in a range of patriotic blues, reds and whites. Centaurea shown above has many varieties in different shades and is a good cottage garden plant. It grows2-3 feet tall and needs some support. It&#8217;s red colour is much more pink but the blue is strong and long lasting. Hardy Geraniums are attractive and easy to grow. The colour range includes the purple to blue or pink and Splish-Splash&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/patriotic-perennials-in-red-white-and-blue\/\"> 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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911","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=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}