{"id":9655,"date":"2011-02-12T09:39:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T16:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9655"},"modified":"2011-02-10T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:00:27","slug":"growing-phragmipedium-slipper-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-phragmipedium-slipper-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Phragmipedium Slipper Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Phragmipedium Don Wimber by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4394353025\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4022\/4394353025_e4086db441.jpg\" alt=\"Phragmipedium Dom Wimber\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Phragmipedium <\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Phragmipediums are   ladyslipper orchids that originate from Mexico  and northern parts of South America.<\/li>\n<li>Their flowering season is heaviest in the spring but some species can bloom for 6-10 months at a time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phragmipedium Don Wimber<\/strong> (shown) is a cross between a the orange flowering starburst Eric Young &#8216;Rocket Fire&#8217; and the red flowering besseae.<\/li>\n<li>They are strong, fast growers producing large handsome leaves (Eh? not here ed.) with tall flower spikes.<\/li>\n<li>The 3 petals are  3 to 4 inches across and are colored in a medium orange with a deep pouch or slipper.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phragmipedium are<\/strong> easy to grow in good strong light given plenty of water and moderate temperatures.<\/li>\n<li>Slipper Orchids can bloom for several months and will flower on a single growth .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See Orchids<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/paphiopedilum-at-orchid-shows-2010\/\"> at the shows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phragmipedium Phragmipediums are ladyslipper orchids that originate from Mexico and northern parts of South America. Their flowering season is heaviest in the spring but some species can bloom for 6-10 months at a time. Phragmipedium Don Wimber (shown) is a cross between a the orange flowering starburst Eric Young &#8216;Rocket Fire&#8217; and the red flowering besseae. They are strong, fast growers producing large handsome leaves (Eh? not here ed.) with tall flower spikes. The 3 petals are 3 to 4&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-phragmipedium-slipper-orchids\/\"> 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-9655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655","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=9655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}