{"id":2094,"date":"2009-10-02T12:37:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T11:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T14:44:43","slug":"flower-carpet-red-velvet-cynara-scolymus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/flower-carpet-red-velvet-cynara-scolymus\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Carpet Red Velvet and Cynara scolymus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2095\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"RedVelvet\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/RedVelvet.jpg\" alt=\"RedVelvet\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>My garden has reached the stage where there is no more room left to plant anything! So you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d stop going to the garden centre wouldn&#8217;t you? But no &#8230;.. this week I came across a lovely red rose (yes, red again!).<\/p>\n<p>This is Flower Carpet Red Velvet a ground cover rose.<\/p>\n<p>It is a lovely bright red with a yellow centre with glossy, rich green foliage and it really catches the eye; I liked it so much I&#8217;ve bought mum one too, she&#8217;ll love it.<\/p>\n<p>As I don&#8217;t have any room in the ground I have put it in a pot in the hope that it will flow over the top and give a trailing affect. There are lots of buds on both plants so hopefully we&#8217;ll get flowers until the frost; I&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is naturally disease resistant<\/li>\n<li>It has a long flowering season<\/li>\n<li>It grows to 50cm (20ins) high and you will need 2-3 plants per square metre (yard)<\/li>\n<li>Plant in a sunny spot in any soil type or plant it in a container in a good quality compost, water well and keep moist<\/li>\n<li>Add a quality rose food to the soil \/ compost<\/li>\n<li>In early spring cut back to 15cm (6ins) from the base and add more rose food<\/li>\n<li>Trim off any spent blooms as this will encourage more prolific flowering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While I was at the garden centre I found a bargain in the Sale section.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2096\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"cynara\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cynara.jpg\" alt=\"cynara\" width=\"140\" height=\"138\" \/>It is a Cynara scolymus or Cardoon.<\/p>\n<p>It is a very architectural plant growing up to 180cm (6ft) tall and producing these wonderful purple-mauve, thistle-like flowers in late summer; keep them on for the winter for an extra show of interest. The foliage is jagged and greyish green which will make a change for my garden.<\/p>\n<p>I have managed to find a small spot at the back of my main border I just hope it gets enough sun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flower Carpet Red Velvet a ground cover rose; a lovely bright red with a yellow centre with glossy, rich green foliage and it really catches the eye. Cynara scolymus or Cardoon an architectural plant growing up to 180cm (6ft) tall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5474],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-our-garden","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","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=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15781,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/15781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}