{"id":9732,"date":"2014-04-27T08:35:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T15:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9732"},"modified":"2014-04-26T02:11:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T09:11:26","slug":"growing-puschkinia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-puschkinia\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Puschkinia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"puschkinia scilloides by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/5468345476\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5173\/5468345476_394843a2b0.jpg\" alt=\"puschkinia scilloides\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Puschkinia Schilloides comes from the \tHyacinthaceae family and are very similar to Scilla. They look like a mini Hyacinth.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are hardy and relatively easy to grow from bulbs.<\/li>\n<li>Growing in a raised alpine bed with gravel for top dressing helps give best display for flowers.<\/li>\n<li> They are fine in full sun or partial shade and flower in April.<\/li>\n<li> They grow from seed and may be naturalised in grass.<\/li>\n<li> After seeds ripen in summer, the plants go dormant until next spring, when flowers push through the soil between Feb and April.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Further Puschkinia Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n<li>Puschkinia grow in relatively high altitudes and are thought of as alpine plants<\/li>\n<li>AGS Alpine Gardener vol82 had an article about Puschkinias found in Turkey<\/li>\n<li>There are white and green forms of flower and even some with a faint blue stripe<\/li>\n<li>Cultivate in pots, plunged and protected during winter and as growth commences place on staging and give plenty of water.<\/li>\n<p><a title=\"puschkinia scilloides by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/5468346492\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5091\/5468346492_6bd72ef1b2.jpg\" alt=\"puschkinia scilloides\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puschkinia Schilloides comes from the Hyacinthaceae family and are very similar to Scilla. They look like a mini Hyacinth. They are hardy and relatively easy to grow from bulbs. Growing in a raised alpine bed with gravel for top dressing helps give best display for flowers. They are fine in full sun or partial shade and flower in April. They grow from seed and may be naturalised in grass. After seeds ripen in summer, the plants go dormant until next&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-puschkinia\/\"> 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-9732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732","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=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}