{"id":8739,"date":"2017-04-13T00:12:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T23:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8739"},"modified":"2017-04-10T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:36:07","slug":"cushion-plants-growing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/cushion-plants-growing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Cushion Plant  Growing Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"gypsophillia aretiodes by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4282855138\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2705\/4282855138_9b1ac7394b.jpg\" alt=\"gypsophillia aretiodes\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What are Cushion Plants<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Surprise!\u00c2\u00a0 Cushion plants look like cushions although they may be firmer.<\/li>\n<li>Cushion plants grow very slowly and\u00c2\u00a0 evenly. They grow rosettes of leaves all at once so that no one part of the plant is more exposed than others.<\/li>\n<li>The flowers are small and often massed closely nestled in the leaves for protection.<\/li>\n<li>The low growing, dense foliage of a cushion plant acts as a layer of insulation, protecting the roots and stems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Saxifraga by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4458923533\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2729\/4458923533_66ddd17465.jpg\" alt=\"Saxifraga\" width=\"500\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Where to Find Cushion Plants<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cushion plants\u00c2\u00a0 grow in rapidly draining rocky or sandy soils<\/li>\n<li>They grow in exposed and windy conditions such as alpine, arctic and arid areas.<\/li>\n<li>A cushion plant\u00c2\u00a0 can thrive because it insulates itself\u00c2\u00a0 and has time to develop very deep\u00c2\u00a0 taproots .<\/li>\n<li>Cushion plants in several families can be found all over the world.<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Draba mollissima by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4282174593\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2689\/4282174593_378b32868a.jpg\" alt=\"Draba mollissima\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Cushion Plant Facts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Flowers are so numerous so they can attract pollinators (that may be in short supply) from far and wide.<\/li>\n<li>Plants are generally long lived. Some plants in the Arctic are over 300 years old.<\/li>\n<li>Cushion Plants for the Rock Garden by Duncan Lowe is available from <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0713474254\/richardpettin-21\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androsace.org.uk\/\">Androsacea Group <\/a> specialise in these mainly cushion plant species<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Saxifraga by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4459703436\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4013\/4459703436_d0655f8b39.jpg\" alt=\"Saxifraga\" width=\"474\" height=\"473\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Some other Cushion Plants<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Juniperours maritima<\/li>\n<li>Dianthus erinaceus<\/li>\n<li>Silene aculis the Moss Campion<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androsaceworld.com\/fotogallerij\/photogallery.htm\">Androsace selago <\/a>pictures<\/li>\n<li>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/images?q=Cushion%20Plants&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=LL8&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;prmd=is&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi&amp;biw=1584&amp;bih=733\">photographs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Cushion Plants Surprise!\u00c2\u00a0 Cushion plants look like cushions although they may be firmer. Cushion plants grow very slowly and\u00c2\u00a0 evenly. They grow rosettes of leaves all at once so that no one part of the plant is more exposed than others. The flowers are small and often massed closely nestled in the leaves for protection. The low growing, dense foliage of a cushion plant acts as a layer of insulation, protecting the roots and stems. Where to Find&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/cushion-plants-growing-tips\/\"> 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739","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=8739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}