{"id":9729,"date":"2015-02-01T07:03:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9729"},"modified":"2015-01-29T14:47:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T21:47:49","slug":"growing-pulmonaria-lungworts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-pulmonaria-lungworts\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Pulmonaria and Lungworts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"pulmonaria officinalis by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/5467743699\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5091\/5467743699_f613bb03bd.jpg\" alt=\"pulmonaria officinalis\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Pulmonaria Officianalis Red Start has been in flower since mid-January in my Yorkshire garden. The colour is a but special for this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>The lungworts are the genus Pulmonaria of flowering plants \/ herbs in the family Boraginaceae, native to Europe and western Asia. The name is derived from the Latin pulmo (the lung). There was a time when Lungworts were used to treat pulmonary infections and that is how they got their name.<\/p>\n<h3>Features of Pulmonaria<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>There are many different varieties and can easily set seed. If you want to keep track of names and varieties, prevent setting seed and propagate by division.<\/li>\n<li>Good companion plants include Helleborus Orientalis, Snowdrops and winter aconite.<\/li>\n<li>Flowers in blue or red arrive as early as February<\/li>\n<li>Makes excellent ground cover in <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/top-ten\/shade-loving-perennials-a-top-ten\/\">shady spots<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Pulmonaria are liked by <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/environmental-gardening\/bee-survival-2010-style\/\">bees<\/a> for their nectar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Tips for Growing Pulmonaria<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cool shady spots. Dislikes drying out in winter.<\/li>\n<li>To avoid mildewed leaves, keep well watered, and remove any infected leaves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"pulmonaria officinalis by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/5468341400\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5137\/5468341400_362b8e662e.jpg\" alt=\"pulmonaria officinalis\" width=\"500\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Pulmonaria Officianalis Red Start has been in flower since mid-January in my Yorkshire garden. The colour is a but special for this time of year. The lungworts are the genus Pulmonaria of flowering plants \/ herbs in the family Boraginaceae, native to Europe and western Asia. The name is derived from the Latin pulmo (the lung). There was a time when Lungworts were used to treat pulmonary infections and that is how they got their name. Features of Pulmonaria There&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-pulmonaria-lungworts\/\"> 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-9729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729","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=9729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}