{"id":9724,"date":"2015-02-03T06:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9724"},"modified":"2015-01-29T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T21:44:00","slug":"saxifraga-irvingii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/saxifraga-irvingii\/","title":{"rendered":"Saxifraga Irvingii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Saxifraga x irvingii 'Jenkinsiae' by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/5467741049\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5178\/5467741049_c7463ba49b.jpg\" alt=\"Saxifraga x irvingii 'Jenkinsiae'\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a lovely low growing alpine. It flowers in early spring (here pictured flowering in Feb).<\/p>\n<p>it goes without saying that like other alpines, this Saxifraga will benefit from a well drained position to avoid rotting away in a cold waterlogged soil.<\/p>\n<p>It is very low growing, though easily earns its place for its attractive foliage and one of the earliest &#8216;pink&#8217; flowers of the season.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Saxifraga x irvingii 'Jenkinsiae' by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/5468339068\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5013\/5468339068_fb6a4aab81.jpg\" alt=\"Saxifraga x irvingii 'Jenkinsiae'\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Companion plants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This saxifraga was being grown in rockery of Oxford Botanic Gardens. Nearby were Cyclamen coum, Iris reticulata and snowdrops. Also consider dwarf Alliums such as Allium cyaneum.<\/p>\n<p>An even earlier Saxifraga is Saxifraga burseriana.<\/p>\n<p>See also: &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/cushion-plants-growing-tips\/\">Growing Cushion plants<\/a>&#8216; Common name for some Saxifraga&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saxifraga.org\/plants\/saxbase\/taxon.asp?Taxon=1519\">Saxifraga Irvingii <\/a>at Saxifraga society<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/good-value-alpine-garden-society\/\">Alpine Garden society<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a lovely low growing alpine. It flowers in early spring (here pictured flowering in Feb). it goes without saying that like other alpines, this Saxifraga will benefit from a well drained position to avoid rotting away in a cold waterlogged soil. It is very low growing, though easily earns its place for its attractive foliage and one of the earliest &#8216;pink&#8217; flowers of the season. Companion plants This saxifraga was being grown in rockery of Oxford Botanic Gardens&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/saxifraga-irvingii\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}