{"id":1282,"date":"2011-08-17T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2011-08-10T17:35:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T21:35:28","slug":"the-challenge-and-reward-of-harlequin-glorybower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/08\/17\/the-challenge-and-reward-of-harlequin-glorybower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge and Reward of Harlequin Glorybower"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harlequin glorybower in mid-August<\/p><\/div>\n

Harlequin Glorybower (Clerodendron trichotomum<\/em>) is a rambling 15 foot tall shrub, and can be easily shaped into a multi-stemmed 10-12 \u00a0foot small tree. Glorybower shines in the late summer and early fall landscape. Its sweetly scented, very showy flowers attract\u00a0the attention of\u00a0gardeners\u00a0as well as hummingbirds and butterflies.<\/p>\n

Glorybower reaches its northern- most hardiness limit here in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6-b and 7). Some winters do not treat glorybower kindly. Significant reconstruction is needed. Moderate pruning in late winter repairs most ills with fast growing glorybower looking great by summer.<\/p>\n

Flowers are arranged in wide 6 – 9 inch clusters, comprised of individual white 1 \u00bd inch blooms and are borne on current season\u2019s wood. Next up in mid-September are the metallic looking topaz colored fruits\u00a0with beet red calyxes which give \u00a0quite a show.<\/p>\n

Foliage texture is bold with broad 4 to 9 inch long dark green leaves\u00a0providing cooling shade to a nearby deck or patio.\u00a0Its pale yellow autumnal leaf color contributes little. Glorybower is relatively disease and insect free.<\/p>\n

Glorybower grows in a moist well-drained average soil and in full to partial (minimum 6- hours) sunlight. A 2-year old established tree is only moderately drought tolerance and requires irrigation\u00a0during long dry spells.<\/p>\n

This under-utilized native of Japan and China is sold principally by internet nursery vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harlequin Glorybower (Clerodendron trichotomum) is a rambling 15 foot tall shrub, and can be easily shaped into a multi-stemmed 10-12 \u00a0foot small tree. Glorybower shines in the late summer and early fall landscape. Its sweetly scented, very showy flowers attract\u00a0the attention of\u00a0gardeners\u00a0as well as hummingbirds and butterflies. Glorybower reaches its northern- most hardiness limit here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[674,602,732,601,729,723,630,706,7,113,162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282"}],"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=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}