{"id":691,"date":"2007-09-10T04:28:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T02:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/10\/conifers\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T04:28:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T02:28:27","slug":"conifers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/conifers\/","title":{"rendered":"Conifers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Conifers are a large and diverse group of plants,  mainly from the colder northern hemisphere. They are fully evergreen,  frost hardy, drought tolerant and generally unfussy about soil, aspect  and the amount of sunshine they receive. Add to this an enormous  diversity in shape, height, colour and texture and it is clear that they  are extremely valuable ornamental plants.<\/p>\n<p>Most conifers change  colour with the season, particularly in winter and the cold often  brightens and intensifies colour and adds deep oranges to golden green  and dark purple to silvery- grey foliage. The range of colours and  shapes is used to best advantage in bold landscape designs, allowing  plenty of space for light and air around each specimen and for the  plants to develop to their mature forms.<\/p>\n<p>Conifers also provide  dependable form and colour in mixed shrubberies where they offset  different foliage and flowers. Further uses for conifers are as topiary  subjects and informal gardens where their fine foliage is ideal for  shaping as quick growing screens and hedges, ground covers for banks, as  container subjects and as bosai subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Best position:<\/p>\n<p>An  open sunny position although grey varieties tolerate partial shade ,  Allow plenty of space for the plant to matyre, average, well-draining  slightly acid soil <\/p>\n<p>Planting:<\/p>\n<p>Any time of the year, dig  holes +- 60 x 60 x 60cm, add plenty of compost &amp; a small handful of  bonemeal or superphosphate ensure soil level is the same as it was in  the plant bag mulch with bag chips or commercial mulch create a basin  around the hole to aid watering. <\/p>\n<p>courtesy of lifestyle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conifers are a large and diverse group of plants, mainly from the colder northern hemisphere. They are fully evergreen, frost hardy, drought tolerant and generally unfussy about soil, aspect and the amount of sunshine they receive. Add to this an enormous diversity in shape, height, colour and texture and it is clear that they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[959,843,955],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants-and-flowers","tag-conifers","tag-gardening","tag-plants-and-flowers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sc0QIf-conifers","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 13:18:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}