{"id":1124,"date":"2011-05-19T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2011-05-10T17:56:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T21:56:47","slug":"summer-wine%e2%84%a2-the-taming-of-the-ninebark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/05\/19\/summer-wine%e2%84%a2-the-taming-of-the-ninebark\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Wine\u2122: The Taming of The Ninebark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1125\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1125\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1125\" title=\"DSC_0183\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0183-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0183-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0183-685x1024.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Physocarpus &#39;Summer Wine&#39;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over the past 25 years our native Eastern ninebark (<em>Physocarpus opulifoliu<\/em>s) has been reborn. Its\u00a0overly vigorous nature\u00a0has been tamed. Latest up is Summer Wine\u2122 ninebark with small, deeply cut, wine burgundy leaves, quite different\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0medium green foliage of old-fashioned ninebarks. Summer Wine is a more compact (5-6 feet in height and width) grower.<\/p>\n<p>Grow ninebark in full sun to retain\u00a0its\u00a0reddish leaf color longer. Ninebark grows in any soil type, tolerates wet soggy ground, and is pH insensitive.\u00a0It demonstrates\u00a0exceptional heat and drought tolerance after one year in the garden. Annual pruning, right after spring flowers have faded,\u00a0 further limits\u00a0\u00a0growth and\u00a0presents many design choices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Summer Wine fits a multiple of landscape uses:\u00a0grouped enmasse as a dense growing deciduous hedge, screen or border, or grown by itself as a landscape specimen or in a patio container. Ninebark\u00a0grown in outdoor containers is winter hardy here in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7).<\/p>\n<p>White spirea-like flower clusters, 1 \u00bd &#8211; 2 inch wide, open in May. White blossoms and dark foliage\u00a0playoff\u00a0each other. The reddish\u00a0leaf\u00a0tint has bled out by mid-summer,\u00a0now dark green and\u00a0usually blemish-free.\u00a0Autumn leaf color is of no consequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 25 years our native Eastern ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius) has been reborn. Its\u00a0overly vigorous nature\u00a0has been tamed. Latest up is Summer Wine\u2122 ninebark with small, deeply cut, wine burgundy leaves, quite different\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0medium green foliage of old-fashioned ninebarks. Summer Wine is a more compact (5-6 feet in height and width) grower. Grow ninebark in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[299,144,713,630,705,7,113,655,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}