{"id":2502,"date":"2009-12-21T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2019-10-20T14:08:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T13:08:58","slug":"types-of-plants-bedding-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/types-of-plants-bedding-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Plants &#8211; Bedding Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bedding Plants are usually used to fill gaps in the borders for a temporary affect. Once flowering is complete they can be disposed of on the compost heap. They mainly consist of Half Hardy Annuals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Care<\/strong>: Buy plants during early Summer once all risk of frost has passed. <strong>Clear the ground of all weeds<\/strong> and keep the plants well watered. Add plenty of well-rotted organic matter when planting and stake tall plants. It is important that the soil is not too rich or it will encourage leafy growth instead of lots of flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Deadheading regularly throughout the growing season will encourage more flowers although you may want to leave some flowers to allow them self-seed around the garden and save you some work.<\/p>\n<p>In autumn once the plants begin to die down pull them up and put on the compost heap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bedding Plants are usually used to fill gaps in the borders for a temporary affect. Once flowering is complete they can be disposed of on the compost heap. They mainly consist of Half Hardy Annuals.<\/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":{"0":"post-2502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-flowers-and-plants","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","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=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13866,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/13866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}