{"id":3780,"date":"2016-06-24T16:24:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/?p=6"},"modified":"2016-06-24T16:24:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:24:25","slug":"plants-for-a-sensory-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/plants-for-a-sensory-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants For A Sensory Garden."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\">Question<\/a><br \/>\nPlease could you give me some advice on what plants to put in a Sensory Garden?.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\">Answer<\/a><br \/>\nYou need to consider the senses you would like to develop in the garden in basic terms this comes down to 4 which are as follows:<br \/>\n1. Touch &#8211; for this a number of plants can be used such as Euonymus Alatus for its corky bark, Betula Jaquemontii for the main stem,<br \/>\nStachys silver Carpet for its leaves.<br \/>\n2. Sight  &#8211; sight is in colour mainly but can be combined with movement by using such plants as Eucalytus Gunii  or salix trees which provide both colour and movement,<br \/>\n3. Sound &#8211; mainly comes from wind a few good plants to use are large leaved bamboos such as Phyllostachys Bissettii or Hornbeam grow as a tree or hedge<br \/>\n4. Smell &#8211; is best combined with a touching experience so using plants that has a scent in the leaves is a good idea such as Rosmarinus or other herbs such as lemon balm or mint. Lavender is another good plant to use.<br \/>\nMore information <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\"> click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question Please could you give me some advice on what plants to put in a Sensory Garden?. Answer You need to consider the senses you would like to develop in the garden in basic&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}