{"id":1916,"date":"2012-10-10T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2011-11-02T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T14:52:48","slug":"seven-son-flower-is-flowering-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/10\/10\/seven-son-flower-is-flowering-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven-Son Flower Is Flowering Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2145\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Heptacodi.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2145\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2145\" title=\"Heptacodi\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Heptacodi-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Heptacodi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Heptacodi-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Heptacodi.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fall Flowering on Seven Son Flower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Back in bloom for a second time in two months! This is my way of describing seven-son flower (<em>Heptacodium miconioides<\/em>), a small 15-20 foot tree or large shrub from China.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-son&#8217;s creamy white petals open in late August\u00a0and finish up in\u00a0early September. By late September, the petals have fallen, and the\u00a0small green sepals (calyces) have expanded and turned pinkish red. Blooms are lightly fragrant if your nose is a few inches from\u00a0the cluster. Numerous species\u00a0of butterflies and bees are attracted to their scent.<\/p>\n<p>Fall leaf color is non-existent over\u00a0the drab greenish yellow heart shaped leaves\u00a0in late October and November. The grayish or tan colored\u00a0bark peels off in narrow strips to reveal an off-white inner wood.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-son appears happiest in the north,\u00a0growing in northern Ohio (USDA zone 5)\u00a0as far south as\u00a0Nashville, TN (zone 7).\u00a0 The tree does not\u00a0seem to\u00a0handle the rollercoaster ups and downs\u00a0in winter temperatures which\u00a0we commonly experience in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7).\u00a0By\u00a0late winter,\u00a0twigs and small diameter branches\u00a0become heavily cankered, leading to\u00a0serious\u00a0dieback in the new spring growth.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-son has a rambling growth habit from stem and root suckers which necessitates annual pruning. Otherwise, it\u00a0makes a good patio tree so you may enjoy\u00a0its twice flowering habit.<\/p>\n<p>Plant in well drained soil and irrigate when summer drought period is severe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in bloom for a second time in two months! This is my way of describing seven-son flower (Heptacodium miconioides), a small 15-20 foot tree or large shrub from China. Seven-son&#8217;s creamy white petals open in late August\u00a0and finish up in\u00a0early September. By late September, the petals have fallen, and the\u00a0small green sepals (calyces) have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[707,806,601,723,814,630,706,646],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916"}],"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=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}