{"id":1208,"date":"2011-05-22T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2012-09-10T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T00:27:41","slug":"yellowwood-not-every-year-bloomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/05\/22\/yellowwood-not-every-year-bloomer\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowwood Not Every Year Bloomer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yellowwood's gray beech-like bark<\/p><\/div>\n

American yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea<\/em>) is a medium-sized flowering tree.\u00a0In the month\u00a0of\u00a0May,\u00a0a beautiful yellowwood tree is in bloom\u00a0somewhere in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zone 6 and 7). The 1-\u00a01 1\/2 \u00a0inch white pea blossoms\u00a0comprise the 8-14 inch long\u00a0wisteria-like panicles which drape from branch and twig tips.<\/p>\n

Yellowwood may bloom 2 to 3 consecutive years and not flower again for\u00a01 to 2 years. The triggering mechanism for flowering\u00a0is not clearly understood. A complex of environmental and physiological factors may be involved.<\/p>\n

Over the past two decades the weather\u00a0across the Southern Appalachian region can only be described\u00a0 as “extreme”,\u00a0unusually\u00a0dry, hot\u00a0summers and unseasonably mild winters.\u00a0A physiological condition called “biennial bearing” may be in play here. If a tree sets an unusually heavy seed load one summer, few to no flowers are initiated the following spring.<\/p>\n

Whether it flowers or not, yellowwood\u00a0makes a fine\u00a0landscape shade tree\u00a0for any sized landscape. Plant in well drained, slightly acidic soil in full sunlight. Its dark green compound leaves remain pest free from spring until early autumn. Yellowwood’s bright yellow fall color arrives at a time when many trees have already defoliated. Its smooth gray colored bark is very beech-like and has multi-seasonal interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  American yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea) is a medium-sized flowering tree.\u00a0In the month\u00a0of\u00a0May,\u00a0a beautiful yellowwood tree is in bloom\u00a0somewhere in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zone 6 and 7). The 1-\u00a01 1\/2 \u00a0inch white pea blossoms\u00a0comprise the 8-14 inch long\u00a0wisteria-like panicles which drape from branch and twig tips. Yellowwood may bloom 2 to 3 consecutive years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,6,602,866,627,630,705,7,714],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208"}],"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=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}