{"id":9029,"date":"2014-10-19T06:15:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T13:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9029"},"modified":"2014-10-11T03:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T10:58:30","slug":"echium-candicans-an-exotic-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/echium-candicans-an-exotic-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Echium candicans an Exotic to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of 60 species in the borage family Echium candicans can be a stunning flower in the right location and that is probably not the North of England.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Echium candicans by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4535162941\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2741\/4535162941_472a5c6ac4.jpg\" alt=\"Echium candicans\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8216;The Pride of Maderia&#8217; is an Echium named candicans. It is more photogenic than my photograph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/images?q=Echium%20candicans&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi&amp;biw=1584&amp;bih=733\">indicates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Echium candicans<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Echium candicans is an evergreen perennial that may act as a biennial but can grow quite bushy if it likes the conditions.<\/li>\n<li>In the first year Echium candicans produces a broad rosette of leaves then in subsequent years blue or purple-blue spires of flowers on short stalks.<\/li>\n<li>It grows in dry sunny positions and is very drought tolerant.<\/li>\n<li>Echium candicans is not frost tolerant so cover it in fleece when frost threatens and hope for the best.<\/li>\n<li>Flowers attract insects and birds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of 60 species in the borage family Echium candicans can be a stunning flower in the right location and that is probably not the North of England. &#8216;The Pride of Maderia&#8217; is an Echium named candicans. It is more photogenic than my photograph indicates. Growing Echium candicans Echium candicans is an evergreen perennial that may act as a biennial but can grow quite bushy if it likes the conditions. In the first year Echium candicans produces a broad rosette&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/echium-candicans-an-exotic-to-grow\/\"> 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-9029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029","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=9029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}