{"id":8351,"date":"2010-11-01T06:05:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T13:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2010-11-01T12:30:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T19:30:32","slug":"growing-tiger-plants-or-tigridia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-tiger-plants-or-tigridia\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Tigridia or Tiger Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tigridia canariensis\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4101\/4820596219_b9584554eb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tigridia <\/strong>is also called the Mexican shell flower or the Tiger Flower due to its shape and spotted petals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts about Tigridia<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This exotic Mexican bulb is also sometimes called the Peacock flower, an appropriate name in view of its quite startling colour combinations.<\/li>\n<li>Tigridia Pavonia flowers are short lived but often several flowers will bloom from the same stalk.<\/li>\n<li>Many colour combinations are available including scarlet, orange, pink, yellow, mauve and white, usually with contrasting markings.<\/li>\n<li>Tigridia is not very hardy and is grown as a tender summer bulb planted in spring and dug up again in autumn for storing in a dry frost-free place.<\/li>\n<li>Tigridia needs all the sun it can get to encourage flowering and   ripen the bulb to ensure a similar display the following year.<\/li>\n<li>Tigridia makes a good greenhouse potted bulb.<\/li>\n<li>Leaves are long and pointe with colour variation that looks like stripes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; font-size: x-small;\">The leaves are long and pleated, tapering to a point<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More coloured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/images?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=6BY&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;q=tigridia&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi&amp;biw=1566&amp;bih=702\">Tigridia<\/a> photographs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3742492796\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2479\/3742492796_41daa99a39.jpg\" alt=\"039\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Read more on the Pacific Bulb Society <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificbulbsociety.org\/pbswiki\/index.php\/Tigridia\">site<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips on Growing Tigridia<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The Tigridia pavonia is a half-hardy bulbous plant from South America.<\/li>\n<li> Tigridia flowers   with full sun, any time between June and September. At the end of the day it closes and shrivels.<\/li>\n<li> Do not cut the stem as it may flower again from another bud lower down.<\/li>\n<li> The corms should to be dug up in the autumn and stored   dry and frost-free until the following spring.<\/li>\n<li> Propagate by cormlets, removing them to be grown separately. They should be big enough to produce flowers in a couple of years.<\/li>\n<li>Beware of snails who love the juicy flesh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4081\/4821214762_e680bd777b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><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=tigridia\"> Thompson Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tigridia is also called the Mexican shell flower or the Tiger Flower due to its shape and spotted petals. Facts about Tigridia This exotic Mexican bulb is also sometimes called the Peacock flower, an appropriate name in view of its quite startling colour combinations. Tigridia Pavonia flowers are short lived but often several flowers will bloom from the same stalk. Many colour combinations are available including scarlet, orange, pink, yellow, mauve and white, usually with contrasting markings. Tigridia is not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-tiger-plants-or-tigridia\/\"> 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-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","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=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}