{"id":8898,"date":"2010-11-09T00:32:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T07:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2010-11-07T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T12:06:08","slug":"growing-late-flowering-gaura-lindheimeri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-late-flowering-gaura-lindheimeri\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Late Flowering Gaura Lindheimeri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Gaura by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5151847329\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1196\/5151847329_915f9dc56a.jpg\" alt=\"Gaura\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gaura Lindheimeri  is a short lived perennial herbaceous plant growing to 18&#8243;-36&#8243; tall from an underground rhizome. Gaura can be treated as a half hardy annual grown from <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=gaura\"> seed<\/a> and planted out\u00c2\u00a0 in mid summer. The plant has an AGM. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Gaura Lindheimeri <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gaura is a plant from the prairie and likes a dry sun baked soil.<\/li>\n<li>Gaura need space but looks light and airy when flowering after August.<\/li>\n<li>The  pinky-white flowers clustering on  thin hairy stems.<\/li>\n<li>Flowers go on appearing for months and\u00c2\u00a0 do not need dead-heading.<\/li>\n<li>Try the slightly smaller deep-pink form,  &#8216;Siskiyou Pink&#8217; which has stems that are crimson or Cherry Brandy, The Bride Summer Breeze or other named varieties.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Corrie&#8217;s Gold&#8217; is another Gaura with a gold leaf and white flower.<\/li>\n<li>Young plants need to be regularly pinched out to make bushy plants.<\/li>\n<li>Mature Gauras do not move well.<\/li>\n<li>Gaura Whirling Butterflies has slender stems and leaves are grey-green with ocassional black spots. The multitude of flowers  dance above the plant like a host of butterflies when  the breeze catches them.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Gaura-lindheimeri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8899\" title=\"Gaura lindheimeri\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Gaura-lindheimeri.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Gaura-lindheimeri.jpg 640w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Gaura-lindheimeri-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaura Lindheimeri is a short lived perennial herbaceous plant growing to 18&#8243;-36&#8243; tall from an underground rhizome. Gaura can be treated as a half hardy annual grown from seed and planted out\u00c2\u00a0 in mid summer. The plant has an AGM. Growing Gaura Lindheimeri Gaura is a plant from the prairie and likes a dry sun baked soil. Gaura need space but looks light and airy when flowering after August. The pinky-white flowers clustering on thin hairy stems. Flowers go on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-late-flowering-gaura-lindheimeri\/\"> 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":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898","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=8898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}