{"id":4392,"date":"2010-11-24T22:36:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2023-09-04T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:05:39","slug":"plants-in-our-garden-hibiscus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/plants-in-our-garden-hibiscus\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants in Our Garden \u2013 Hibiscus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Hibiscus as they look so exotic and I still wonder at how they flower so well each year in my North facing garden.<\/p>\n<p>The variety I have is Hibiscus syriacus &#8216;Oiseau Bleu&#8217; which has amazing large deep purple\/blue coloured flowers with a bright magenta centre. It is a deciduous shrub but has lovely dark green foliage during late spring and summer.<\/p>\n<p>They like to be in full sun and planted in a rich, moist, well-drained soil, they are fully hardy and flower between August to October.<\/p>\n<p>Prune young plants in late spring to encourage a bushy habit but once established they need little care except to mulch well in autumn to help retain moisture and keep down weeds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>The photograph above is the property of Linda Peppin and must not be copied or used in any public work without her express permission.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The variety I have is Hibiscus syriacus &#8216;Oiseau Bleu&#8217; which has amazing large deep purple\/blue coloured flowers with a bright magenta centre. It is a deciduous shrub but has lovely dark green foliage during late spring and summer.<\/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-4392","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\/4392","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=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16192,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/16192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}