{"id":1659,"date":"2018-02-07T11:59:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T11:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/manipulation-of-flowering-times\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T11:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T11:59:28","slug":"manipulation-of-flowering-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/manipulation-of-flowering-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulation of flowering times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by <span class=\"hubmaster_faq_author\"><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>john waddington<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"hubmaster_faq_blockquote\"><p>Having seen your displays at several shows both early and late in the seasons it is evident that you have some experience of &#8216;timing&#8217; the flowering of certain cultivars. I am a keen grower of the lily (Orientals mainly) and also like to exhibit flowers at the local horticultural show, can you give any general advice regarding planting times\/how to stagger those times to achieve flowers in bloom &#8230;say for early September<br \/>\n-most of mine want to start flowering in mid July and have been and gone by the end of<br \/>\nAugust<br \/>\nregards John<br \/>\nps i&#8217;ll see you at Harrogate as usual<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hubmaster_faq_answer\">Hi John<br \/>\nWe would advise planting your lilies a lot later in the season for September flowering. Usually about 12 weeks before you wish to see them in flower, try planting yours early June and hopefully they will be ready for your display.<br \/>\nSee you at Harrogate!<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"hubmaster_faq_editor\">Loraine Hart<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi John<br \/>\nWe would advise planting your lilies a lot later in the season for September.. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/manipulation-of-flowering-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,106,24,101,56,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","category-lilies","category-lily-bulbs","category-lily-care","category-newsletter","category-pots"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}