{"id":58886,"date":"2017-06-24T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plant-of-the-week-carthusian-pink\/"},"modified":"2017-06-24T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T10:10:25","slug":"plant-of-the-week-carthusian-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plant-of-the-week-carthusian-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant of the week: Carthusian pink"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNot everyone likes bright pink flowers. But they\u2019re wrongThis plant may have been\u00a0named after an order of monks that dates back to the 11th century, but\u00a0Dianthus carthusianorum is a\u00a0particularly useful one for our small modern gardens. It has magenta flowers from now to late summer, held on slim stems around 40-50cm tall above a\u00a0nest of strap-like leaves, and works well amid grasses in gravel and prairie gardens. As garden writer Val Bourne has noted, it\u00a0has the same see-through quality that turned Verbena bonariensis into a garden favourite \u2013 only this is evergreen, so\u00a0you\u2019ll have foliage all winter, too. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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