The native cypress spurge gets its name from its fine, needle-like foliage, which resembles conifer seedlings and looks incredibly decorative when paired with other stress-tolerant sun-loving perennials. The \u2018Fens Ruby\u2019 cultivar also delights with its gorgeous red spring foliage, which contrasts beautifully with the lime-green flower clusters. The countless spring blooms have a sweet, honey-like scent and offer a bountiful feast for pollinators. In sunny, barren garden locations, the species spreads vigorously through a network of fast-growing root runners. That\u2019s why I always pair this spring gem with other hardy rock garden perennials, such as Geranium macrorrhizum, tall sedum, and white asphodel (Asphodelus albus). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The native cypress spurge gets its name from its fine, needle-like foliage, which resembles conifer seedlings and looks incredibly decorative when paired with other stress-tolerant sun-loving perennials. The \u2018Fens Ruby\u2019 cultivar also delights with its gorgeous red spring foliage, which contrasts beautifully with the lime-green flower clusters. The countless spring blooms have a sweet, honey-like scent and offer a bountiful feast for pollinators. In sunny, barren garden locations, the species spreads vigorously through a network of fast-growing root runners. That\u2019s why I always pair this spring gem with other hardy rock garden perennials, such as Geranium macrorrhizum, tall sedum, and white asphodel (Asphodelus albus). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plant-of-the-week","tag-kw-18"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3850,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/3850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peter-janke-gartenkonzepte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}