{"id":635,"date":"2021-11-19T13:56:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T12:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/?p=635"},"modified":"2021-11-19T13:56:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T12:56:33","slug":"growing-a-standard-photinia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/growing-a-standard-photinia\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing a standard photinia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9522.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9522.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9522-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9522-520x693.jpeg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9522-320x427.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first stage is to pick a photinia plant with a straight main stem. Tie the stem to a cane <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9523.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9523.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9523-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9523-520x693.jpeg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9523-320x427.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next remove all the side shoots to the required height of the underside of the head. The side shoots can be found in the between the stem and the pint the leaves join the stem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9527.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9527.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9527-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9527-520x693.jpeg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/IMG_9527-320x427.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As the shot hat have been left onto of the stem grow they should be lightly pruned back when they reach 100 to 150mm to produce more shoots to start to create a denser head. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first stage is to pick a photinia plant with a straight main stem. Tie the stem to a cane Next remove all the side shoots to the required height of the underside of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-gardening-tasks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}