{"id":8137,"date":"2016-06-07T02:27:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2016-06-03T08:45:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T07:45:18","slug":"growing-inula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-inula\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Inula and Inula Varieties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big, bold and brassy 3 reasons to love growing Inula<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Inula \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4801507302\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4095\/4801507302_3887dc18b1.jpg\" alt=\"Inula\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Inula<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is a yellow flowering, herbaceous, perennial that grows 3-4 feet tall in my garden. The leaves are large, gently serrated and light green.<\/li>\n<li>The flower stalks have up to seven daisy like flowers on firm stems. Support in high winds.<\/li>\n<li>Inula is very attractive to bees and hoverflies.<\/li>\n<li>The flowers go brown in the centre once they have been fertilized.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Inula Varieties<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inula magnifica grows in most soil conditions and is good near a pond.<\/li>\n<li>The pygmy Inula acaulis has rosettes of narrow 1.5&#8243; leaves and golden daisies 1&#8243; or more across.<\/li>\n<li>Inula hookeri is a clump-forming perennial with hairy self supporting stems and large, spidery, yellow, daisy flowers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Inula providing Bee food\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4800874329\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4121\/4800874329_e88b565410.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;b&gt;Inula\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Propagation and More<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Propagate by splitting the clumps<\/li>\n<li>Micropropagation of Inula racemosa is explained in this <a href=\"http:\/\/scialert.net\/fulltext\/?doi=ijb.2007.296.301&amp;org=11\">interesting article.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>More about <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/daisies-can-be-yellow\/\">yellow daisies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>See more<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/images?q=inula&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi\"> images<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big, bold and brassy 3 reasons to love growing Inula What is Inula This is a yellow flowering, herbaceous, perennial that grows 3-4 feet tall in my garden. The leaves are large, gently serrated and light green. The flower stalks have up to seven daisy like flowers on firm stems. Support in high winds. Inula is very attractive to bees and hoverflies. The flowers go brown in the centre once they have been fertilized. Inula Varieties Inula magnifica grows in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-inula\/\"> 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":[10,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137","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=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}