{"id":8184,"date":"2015-07-17T06:39:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T13:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8184"},"modified":"2015-07-13T07:05:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:05:28","slug":"growing-aubretia-from-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-aubretia-from-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Aubretia from Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Aubretia \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4516869761\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2737\/4516869761_850ae37cc0.jpg\" alt=\"Aubretia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aubretia<\/strong> is an excellent, 6&#8243; high perennial that is almost smothered with flowers in early spring.<br \/>\nAubretia is suitable for rockeries, walls, borders, edging paths, planters and window boxes. Spread is 12-18in and flower colours include blue, rich purple and pink shades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sowing Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sow by just covering the seed, from late winter to early summer, in a good free draining seed compost.<\/li>\n<li>Add some grit or sharp sand to ordinary compost as Aubretia doesn&#8217;t like wet feet.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure the compost is moist and not wet and seal in a polythene bag.<\/li>\n<li>Germination usually takes 14-21 days at 65F .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Growing Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transplant, when large enough to handle, into boxes or 3in pots.<\/li>\n<li>Later plant out 12in apart into a sunny, well drained garden soil preferably containing lime.<\/li>\n<li>Trim with shears after flowering to keep plants tidy. Allow to trail if you like the unkempt look.<\/li>\n<li>Desirable plants can be increased by cuttings or layering in late spring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Old Hybrids to Look Out For<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Doctor Muller &#8211; deep violet-blue<\/li>\n<li>Mrs Rodewald &#8211; larger red flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Bridesmaid &#8211; pale pink\u00c2\u00a0 with a deeper eye.<\/li>\n<li>Barker&#8217;s Double -\u00c2\u00a0 a pink mix with semi and double flowers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can<strong> buy seeds <\/strong>or plants from Thompson &amp; Morgan and other seed suppliers<\/p>\n<p>Aubretia deltoidea Variegata has white edged leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Aubretia deltoidea Aurea has gold edged leaves. Aubretia is also in books with the spelling Aubrieta and Aubrietia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aubretia is an excellent, 6&#8243; high perennial that is almost smothered with flowers in early spring. Aubretia is suitable for rockeries, walls, borders, edging paths, planters and window boxes. Spread is 12-18in and flower colours include blue, rich purple and pink shades. Sowing Instructions Sow by just covering the seed, from late winter to early summer, in a good free draining seed compost. Add some grit or sharp sand to ordinary compost as Aubretia doesn&#8217;t like wet feet. Make sure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-aubretia-from-seed\/\"> 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":[],"class_list":["post-8184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184","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=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}