{"id":8732,"date":"2017-04-11T00:34:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T23:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2017-04-10T17:35:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:35:20","slug":"growing-triteleia-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/growing-triteleia-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Triteleia Bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Triteleia starlight by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4282084705\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2698\/4282084705_cf3c11f476.jpg\" alt=\"Triteleia starlight\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Tips for Growing Triteleia<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Triteleia ixioides Starlight is a straw coloured flowering bulb that is easy to grow.<\/li>\n<li>Flowers in umbels of up to 25 have 6 petals that open flat like wheel spokes and they can last for 8 weeks. they make good cut flowers.<\/li>\n<li>They like a light, well drained soil and are good pot subjects.<\/li>\n<li>Plants are 18-24&#8243; tall and spread about 4&#8243;.<\/li>\n<li>They can be grown from seed (flowers are pollinated by butterflies) or from cultivated 1-2cm &#8216;corms&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Names and Species<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Triteleia ixioides ssp. unifolia has a similar yellow colouring but the centre of each petal has a dark central line.<\/li>\n<li>Triteleia ixioides is also known in its native California as Coast Pretty Face or Golden brodiaea. The bulbs are often listed as Brodiaea<\/li>\n<li>Triteleia anilina is a mountain form that emerges in spring and blooms later than other Triteleia.<\/li>\n<li>Triteleia laxa are purple flowering varieties widely available as corms in the UK.<\/li>\n<li>Triteleia hyacinthina have many often white florets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Pacific Bulb Society has a large report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificbulbsociety.org\/pbswiki\/index.php\/TriteleiaSpeciesThree\">numerous species<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4361\">Growing Habranthus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing Triteleia can be easy and rewarding in pots or alpine gardens. The purple or yellow flowering heads are long lasting and are used in the USA as cut flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","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=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}