{"id":105623,"date":"2019-03-31T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/say-hello-to-aloes-that-will-thrive-outdoors-james-wong\/"},"modified":"2019-03-31T15:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T08:03:37","slug":"say-hello-to-aloes-that-will-thrive-outdoors-james-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/say-hello-to-aloes-that-will-thrive-outdoors-james-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Say hello to aloes that will thrive outdoors | James Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWith good drainage, many succulents grow well outsideAs a lifelong lover of succulents, it\u2019s exciting for me to see that they are suddenly back in vogue. Driven in large part by social media, sales of these wonderfully low-maintenance houseplants have seen a sharp increase in recent years. But despite their incredibly exotic appearance, many succulents will grow perfectly well outdoors. If you have run out of windowsills for your growing army of desert plants, here are some of my favourite aloes that will let you increase your collection outside.We tend to think of aloes as larger, statement plants when grown indoors, but if you have a sunny spot outside, the low-growing, bunching rosettes of Aloe aristata make a wonderfully effective ground cover. They help green up the bare patches of gravel between bigger specimens in dry or Mediterranean-style borders, where they will also suppress weed growth, and even reward you with spikes of bright orange tubular flowers held on elegant stalks each summer. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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With good drainage, many succulents grow well outsideAs a lifelong lover of succulents, it\u2019s exciting...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-rtB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":113315,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-care-for-cacti-james-wong\/","url_meta":{"origin":105623,"position":0},"title":"How to care for cacti | James Wong","date":"December 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Keep your desert dwellers alive and give your succulents succourA man is met by the devil at the gates of hell with a greeting: \u201cYou killed 30 succulents. 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