{"id":1477,"date":"2014-06-23T20:12:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2016-01-25T18:45:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T18:45:17","slug":"plant-of-the-month-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/plant-of-the-month-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant of the Month &#8211; April &#8211; Pulmonaria Blue Ensign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To me, in the garden at Lewis Cottage this plant, <a title=\"Pulmonaria Blue Ensign\" href=\"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/product\/pulmonaria-blue-ensign\/\">Pulmonaria Blue Ensign<\/a> along with the wild primrose is the embodiment of <a title=\"Spring\" href=\"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/product-category\/seasonal_plants_for_sale\/spring_plants\/\">Spring<\/a>. Its delightful, large blue-violet flowers almost of an unnatural hue are borne in spring above unspotted, dark green foliage.<a href=\"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pulmonaria-blue-ensign-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1457\" alt=\"pulmonaria-blue-ensign-2\" src=\"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pulmonaria-blue-ensign-2-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pulmonaria-blue-ensign-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pulmonaria-blue-ensign-2-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pulmonaria-blue-ensign-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pulmonaria-blue-ensign-2-109x109.jpg 109w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pulmonaria-blue-ensign-2-44x44.jpg 44w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pulmonaria-blue-ensign-2-184x184.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is an excellent groundcover plant for a shady spot (though ours thrive in dappled shade). Choose a place where the soil retains moisture over the summer and where the bright flowers can be fully appreciated.\u2028Encourage plant growth by taking off the flowers when they&#8217;ve gone over. H&amp;S 45cm x 35cm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me, in the garden at Lewis Cottage this plant, Pulmonaria Blue Ensign along with the wild primrose is the embodiment of Spring. Its delightful, large blue-violet flowers almost of an unnatural hue are borne in spring above unspotted, dark green foliage. It is an excellent groundcover plant for a shady spot (though ours thrive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plant-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}