{"id":169,"date":"2010-04-24T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/04\/24\/carolina-all-spice-sweetshrub-or-bubbybush\/"},"modified":"2010-04-24T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T00:43:00","slug":"carolina-all-spice-sweetshrub-or-bubbybush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/04\/24\/carolina-all-spice-sweetshrub-or-bubbybush\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina All-Spice Sweetshrub Or Bubbybush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S9ORBpK-QEI\/AAAAAAAAANA\/74jjZ8c0Kug\/s1600\/Calycanthus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463870230348316738\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S9ORBpK-QEI\/AAAAAAAAANA\/74jjZ8c0Kug\/s320\/Calycanthus.jpg\" \/><\/a>What&#8217;s in a name? Sweetshrub (<em>Calycanthus floridus<\/em>) is one of our finest native shrubs. Its waxy, reddish brown flowers emit an enticing fruity fragrance. The 2&#8243; wide flowers bloom starting in late April, and sporadically June through August.<\/p>\n<p>Many gardeners in the southern Appalachians (plant hardiness zone 6 -8) call it \u201cbubbybush\u201d or \u201csweet bubby\u201d.  In the 1800&#8217;s, long before deodorants, women used the fragrant flower as a perfume to mask body odor. They would hide the tough, almost indestructible flowers under their dresses, in their pockets, even pin them on their clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet shrub is easy to grow. Plant in fertile, well-drained garden soil and in sunny to partly shaded landscape. It flowers best in full sun and stay dense and tight. The beautiful deep green leaves measure 5-6&#8243; long, ovate, and exhibit a nice yellow fall color and persist into November. The large, &#8216;urn-shaped&#8217; fruits mature in October.<\/p>\n<p>The cultivar \u2018Athens\u2019 has yellow fragrant flowers. New Asian\/American hybrids from the North Carolina State University\u2019s plant breeding program are \u2018Hartledge Wine\u2019 (red, non-fragrant flowers) and most recent introduction \u2018Venus\u2019 (creamy white, fragrant flowers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s in a name? Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) is one of our finest native shrubs. Its waxy, reddish brown flowers emit an enticing fruity fragrance. The 2&#8243; wide flowers bloom starting in late April, and sporadically June through August. Many gardeners in the southern Appalachians (plant hardiness zone 6 -8) call it \u201cbubbybush\u201d or \u201csweet bubby\u201d. [&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\/169"}],"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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}