{"id":878,"date":"2016-11-07T02:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T02:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2016-10-17T16:10:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:10:58","slug":"spider-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/spider-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-picture.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-879\" title=\"new-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-picture.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>What you need to know about Spider plants<\/h3>\n<h3>Chlorophytum comosum variegatum<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Whilst Spider plants are common and oft forgotten houseplants a bit of LTC (tender loving care) will produce grand specimens.<\/li>\n<li>Spiders are voracious eaters and that is also true of Spider Plants so give them <strong>plenty of nitrogen based fertiliser.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Spider plants are also called Chlorophytum comosum variegatum &#8211; quite a mouthful or another name is St Bernards Lily. Or you could call it &#8216;Boris&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Healthy leaves look good. <strong>Keep plants moist<\/strong> for good foliage<\/li>\n<li>The flowers are small often insignificant white blossom.<\/li>\n<li>Happy plants produce off-spring in the form of baby plantlets at the end of runners.<\/li>\n<li>Runners are easy to put in a pot with compost to grow new plants.<\/li>\n<li>Repot in loam and feed the fleshy root system<\/li>\n<li><!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/click-shubd.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/spider-plant.html\">http:\/\/click-shubd.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/spider-plant.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you need to know about Spider plants Chlorophytum comosum variegatum Whilst Spider plants are common and oft forgotten houseplants a bit of LTC (tender loving care) will produce grand specimens. Spiders are voracious eaters and that is also true of Spider Plants so give them plenty of nitrogen based fertiliser. Spider plants are also called Chlorophytum comosum variegatum &#8211; quite a mouthful or another name is St Bernards Lily. Or you could call it &#8216;Boris&#8217; Healthy leaves look good&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/spider-plant\/\"> 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":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-greenhouse-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}