{"id":1323,"date":"2013-06-02T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2023-09-04T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:02:06","slug":"plant-of-the-month-for-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/plant-of-the-month-for-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant of the Month for June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">Our Plant of the Month Papaver orientale or Oriental Poppy produces delicate flowers from May to July above bristly, grey-green leaves. The flower colours vary from white, through pink to red.<\/p>\n<p>They are a fast-growing plant and easy to grow, the pale papery flowers contrast especially well with purple foliage plants such as Heuchera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">Try it alongside grasses or late summer-flowering perennials, such as dahlias, which will provide interest when the plant has died back.<\/p>\n<p>They take little care just cut back to ground level after flowering and lift and divide large clumps in autumn.<\/p>\n<p>They prefer full sun and moist, well-drained soil and are fully hardy. If you don&#8217;t want them to take over the whole border, dead head before the plant sets seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Plant of the Month Papaver orientale or Oriental Poppy produces delicate flowers from May to July above bristly, grey-green leaves. The flower colours vary from white, through pink to red. They are a fast-growing plant and easy to grow, the pale papery flowers contrast especially well with purple foliage plants such as Heuchera. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-flowers-and-plants","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16181,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/16181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}