{"id":1295,"date":"2011-06-01T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2011-05-30T17:03:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T21:03:16","slug":"stewartia-a-tree-for-all-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/06\/01\/stewartia-a-tree-for-all-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewartia- A Tree for All Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1298\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_0389.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1298\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1298  \" title=\"DSC_0389\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_0389-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_0389-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_0389-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_0389.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lovely Japanese stewartia at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1300\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Stewartia-pseudocamellia-5.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1300\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1300  \" title=\"Stewartia pseudocamellia (5)\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Stewartia-pseudocamellia-5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">June flowering stewartia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Japanese stewartia (<em>Stewartia pseudocamellia<\/em>) is a truly beautiful 20-30 foot small tree or multi-trunked shrub. Stewartia may be finicky to grow, but a great plant nonetheless. Although rarely seen in U.S. gardens, Japanese stewartia is\u00a0the most commonly grown\u00a0of the\u00a0six stewartia species. All are winter hardy in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7).<\/p>\n<p>Visually, stewartia provides four seasons of ornamental beauty. Lovely 2 to 2 \u00bd inch camellia-like white flowers appear in early June and are in bloom for 2 &#8211; 3 weeks. The 3 &#8211; 4 inch blemish-free green summer foliage turns yellow and\/or crimson red in mid- autumn, depending on its location. Its patchwork mottled\u00a0bark becomes more attractive with age.<\/p>\n<p>The trick to growing stewartia is selecting a proper site. Stewartia may flourish for many years \u00a0if the soil drainage\u00a0and sunlight exposure are near perfect.\u00a0Japanese stewartia grows similar to flowering dogwood (<em>Cornus florida<\/em>), requiring a compost rich, acidic pH and\u00a0almost perfectly drained soil.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Filtered all-day sunlight or six hours of morning \/early afternoon sunlight is ideal. Prolonged periods of scorching summer heat and low rainfall may be fatal to Japanese stewartia. Irrigate to cool and refresh the tree(s) and keep adequately mulched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia) is a truly beautiful 20-30 foot small tree or multi-trunked shrub. Stewartia may be finicky to grow, but a great plant nonetheless. Although rarely seen in U.S. gardens, Japanese stewartia is\u00a0the most commonly grown\u00a0of the\u00a0six stewartia species. All are winter hardy in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,605,674,602,601,630,725,706,646,7,283,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295"}],"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=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14671,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/14671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}