{"id":686,"date":"2018-02-06T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/journal\/?p=686"},"modified":"2019-05-15T18:07:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:07:54","slug":"nepeta-in-b2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/nepeta-in-b2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepeta in B2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-686 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\/2018\/02\/b2_nepeta_20180206.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/b2_nepeta_20180206-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Nepeta in F2 in late winter\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/b2_nepeta_20180206-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/b2_nepeta_20180206-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/b2_nepeta_20180206-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/b2_nepeta_20180206-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" 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-1-677'>\n\t\t\t\tNepeta in F2 in late winter\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Ideally I should cut these back and remove the cat protection to reveal the glorious bulbs underneath, but of course there aren&#8217;t any because when they should have been planted the nepeta were in full song. Solution: raise bulbs in pots and plant these out now? Supermarket bulbs in pots are not really big enough, but they may be better than nothing this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>9 Feb 18<\/em><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-686 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\/2018\/02\/b2_gap_20180211.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/b2_gap_20180211-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Gap around nepeta in B2\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/b2_gap_20180211-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/b2_gap_20180211-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/b2_gap_20180211-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/b2_gap_20180211-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" 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-2-688'>\n\t\t\t\tGap around nepeta in B2\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I planted 6 sprouting plants each of &#8216;T\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate&#8217;, &#8216;Minnow&#8217; and &#8216;Jetfire&#8217; from Homebase. Each plant consisted of at least two bulbs. Also some dwarf viola bedding.<\/p>\n<p><em>30 Mch 18<\/em><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-686 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\/2018\/03\/bulbs_from_pots_f2_20180330_01.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bulbs_from_pots_f2_20180330_01-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Late March 2018\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bulbs_from_pots_f2_20180330_01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bulbs_from_pots_f2_20180330_01-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bulbs_from_pots_f2_20180330_01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bulbs_from_pots_f2_20180330_01-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" 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-3-767'>\n\t\t\t\tLate March 2018\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Very good result, particularly considering all the frost and snow we&#8217;ve had this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideally I should cut these back and remove the cat protection to reveal the glorious bulbs underneath, but of course there aren&#8217;t any because when they should have been planted the nepeta were in full song. Solution: raise bulbs in pots and plant these out now? Supermarket bulbs in pots are not really big enough, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulbs","category-gaps","category-pots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}