{"id":113,"date":"2011-07-04T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=113"},"modified":"2011-06-27T21:46:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T01:46:23","slug":"tough-chinese-astilbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/07\/04\/tough-chinese-astilbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough And Reliable Chinese Astilbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1443\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Astilbe-chinensis.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1443\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1443\" title=\"Astilbe chinensis\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Astilbe-chinensis-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Astilbe-chinensis-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Astilbe-chinensis-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astilbe chinensis at Kingwood Center, Mansfield, Ohio<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Astilbes (also called \u201cfalse spireas\u201d) are favorite late spring flowering perennials.\u00a0 The <em>Astilbe x arendsii<\/em> hybrids from Germany are most popular and available at local garden centers. Astilbes are very hardy in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7).<\/p>\n<p>If low maintenance is your goal, try Chinese astilbe (<em>Astilbe chinensis <\/em>var <em>tacquetii<\/em>). Their care is less demanding than the Arendsii hybrids. Chinese astilbes\u00a0bloom nearly two weeks later. Group\u00a0many together for mass effect of plume flowers and dense compound foliage.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Visions\u2019 series are personal favorites. The original \u2018Visions\u2019 bears raspberry plume flowers. Later cultivars, \u2018Visions in Red\u2019 and \u2018Visions in Pink\u2019, are also nice. Plants form a 9- inch tall mound with bronze-green leaves and dense panicles of raspberry colored flowers on 12-15\u201d tall stems.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Pumila\u2019 forms a thick ground cover with 8-12 inch tall lavender purple flowers in mid- summer. \u2018Superba\u2019 is a taller flowering form and more available in nursery commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese astilbes grow in moist, well drained soils and partial sunlight. Two \u2013year old established plants are exceptionally drought tolerant, have no serious disease or pest problems, and are generally not a favorite of deer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astilbes (also called \u201cfalse spireas\u201d) are favorite late spring flowering perennials.\u00a0 The Astilbe x arendsii hybrids from Germany are most popular and available at local garden centers. Astilbes are very hardy in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). If low maintenance is your goal, try Chinese astilbe (Astilbe chinensis var tacquetii). Their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[736,602,625,630,705,706,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}