{"id":1483,"date":"2014-06-23T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2016-01-25T18:56:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T18:56:29","slug":"plant-of-the-month-may-phlomis-russeliana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/plant-of-the-month-may-phlomis-russeliana\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant of the Month &#8211; May &#8211; Phlomis Russeliana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tab-description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/phlomis-russeliana.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1485\" alt=\"phlomis russeliana\" src=\"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/phlomis-russeliana-150x150.jpeg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/phlomis-russeliana-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/phlomis-russeliana-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/phlomis-russeliana-90x90.jpeg 90w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/phlomis-russeliana-109x109.jpeg 109w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/phlomis-russeliana-44x44.jpeg 44w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/phlomis-russeliana-184x184.jpeg 184w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/phlomis-russeliana.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>One of my personal favourites and in my view a much underrated and underused plant, <a title=\"Phlomis russeliana\" href=\"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/product\/phlomis-russeliana\/\">Phlomis Russeliana<\/a> , is \u00a0bone-hardy with stout stems bearing tiered whorls of hooded, butter yellow flowers in summer, above rough heart-shaped basal leaves.Hailing from Syria it is a valuable and easy plant that thrives in almost any soil. We have it planted in dense shade right through to full sun and it thrives all over!<a href=\"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Phlomis-Russeliana1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-865\" alt=\"Phlomis-Russeliana1\" src=\"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Phlomis-Russeliana1-150x150.jpeg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Phlomis-Russeliana1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Phlomis-Russeliana1-90x90.jpeg 90w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Phlomis-Russeliana1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Phlomis-Russeliana1-109x109.jpeg 109w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Phlomis-Russeliana1-44x44.jpeg 44w, https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Phlomis-Russeliana1-184x184.jpeg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Rich buttery yellow flowers appear in <a href=\"http:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/product-category\/seasonal_plants_for_sale\/summer_plants\/\">June-Aug<\/a> but is in its element as soon as the mature plant sends up it flower spikes in May. Grey green heart shaped basal leaves act as a great foil to to the flowers and ultimately the impressive seedheads. Good ground cover too.H&amp;S 3ft x 2ft.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my personal favourites and in my view a much underrated and underused plant, Phlomis Russeliana , is \u00a0bone-hardy with stout stems bearing tiered whorls of hooded, butter yellow flowers in summer, above rough heart-shaped basal leaves.Hailing from Syria it is a valuable and easy plant that thrives in almost any soil. We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden_journal","category-plant-of-the-month","category-plants-that-should-be-better-known"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","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=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscottageplants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}