{"id":9042,"date":"2013-06-22T07:24:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T14:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9042"},"modified":"2013-06-20T09:44:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:44:33","slug":"growing-a-burning-bush-dictamnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-a-burning-bush-dictamnus\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing a Burning Bush &#8211; Dictamnus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/ by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5187006759\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1035\/5187006759_a455fcf1d4.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/ by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5187006759\/\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe volatile oils from Dictamnus have a lemon scent and are quite flammable. The fumes are said to be capable of being ignited on a calm summer evening giving rise to its popular names Burning Bush or Gas Plant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Growing a Burning Bush<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dictamnus is also called False Dittany but unlike Dittany it is inedible and has few herbal properties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dictamnus albus is a long lived perennial that grows 2-3 feet high. It flowers in late spring on a pyramid of spires in pink, purple and white.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Plants grow best in full sun but will tolerate some light shade. Grow in any well drained garden soil with added\u00c2\u00a0 lime . <!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Well established plants resent transplanting but should live for a longtime given sheltered conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Plants can be grown from seed but take several years to flower. I remember being disappointed by Cuthberts Seeds from &#8216;Woolies&#8217; when I was a kid but 50 years on perhaps I will try again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There is only a single species Dictamnus albus but variety purpueus (shown below) has an RHS award of garden merit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/ by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5187011105\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4104\/5187011105_0b681e228b.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other plants are sometimes referred to as Burning bush including Kochia tricopphylla and Euonymus alatus (alta)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The volatile oils from Dictamnus have a lemon scent and are quite flammable. The fumes are said to be capable of being ignited on a calm summer evening giving rise to its popular names Burning Bush or Gas Plant. Growing a Burning Bush Dictamnus is also called False Dittany but unlike Dittany it is inedible and has few herbal properties. Dictamnus albus is a long lived perennial that grows 2-3 feet high. It flowers in late spring on a pyramid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-a-burning-bush-dictamnus\/\"> 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-9042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042","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=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}