{"id":145,"date":"2010-02-15T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/02\/15\/fragrant-wintersweet-in-bloom-now\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:30:00","slug":"fragrant-wintersweet-in-bloom-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/02\/15\/fragrant-wintersweet-in-bloom-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragrant Wintersweet in Bloom Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S3l4BEAIEzI\/AAAAAAAAAIg\/865RrTW-Q1s\/s1600-h\/DSC_0186.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438509984676057906\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S3l4BEAIEzI\/AAAAAAAAAIg\/865RrTW-Q1s\/s320\/DSC_0186.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>It&#8217;s mid-February and you may have already missed seeing the fragrant yellow blossoms of wintersweet (<em>Chimonanthus praecox<\/em>). Its tiny flowers, 3\/4 to 1 inch across, open in the coldest period of the winter season. Blooms are weather-proof, rarely injured when nighttime temps dip below freezing in zones 6 and 7. Bloom injury likely occurs as evening temps approach zero \u00b0F.<br \/>Wintersweet is a 10-15 foot tall and wide shrub, and grows well in any soil type provided it is adequately drained. Summer foliage is lustrous dark green, turning yellow-green in fall before dropping its leaves.<br \/>Every 5 to 6 years, a tall, often leggy fragrant wintersweet requires a complete rejuvenation. Prune the entire shrub back to within 4-6 inches from the ground after blooms have vanished in late March. It will grow back rapidly and bloom again next January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s mid-February and you may have already missed seeing the fragrant yellow blossoms of wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox). Its tiny flowers, 3\/4 to 1 inch across, open in the coldest period of the winter season. Blooms are weather-proof, rarely injured when nighttime temps dip below freezing in zones 6 and 7. Bloom injury likely occurs as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"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=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}