{"id":1530,"date":"2019-05-18T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2019-06-13T15:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T14:42:49","slug":"alliums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/alliums\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliums"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1530 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/allium_f1_20190518.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/allium_f1_20190518-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/allium_f1_20190518-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/allium_f1_20190518-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/allium_f1_20190518-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/allium_f1_20190518-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/allium_f1_20190518.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1515'>\n\t\t\t\tAlliums in F1\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>There are only about 3 allium plants left from the 10 pots of sprouting bulbs I planted 3 years ago, which did really well in the first year. This is partly due to other plants overwhelming them &#8211; fair enough. Also, I let the plants go to seed, because the seed heads look very attractive. A gardener at the National Botanic Garden said they will become weaker if you don&#8217;t dead head. The solution is to plant fresh each year. I&#8217;ll try planting some bulbs myself in pots or troughs this summer, and plant them out next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are only about 3 allium plants left from the 10 pots of sprouting bulbs I planted 3 years ago, which did really well in the first year. This is partly due to other plants overwhelming them &#8211; fair enough. Also, I let the plants go to seed, because the seed heads look very attractive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beds","category-maintenance","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}