{"id":201,"date":"2010-07-25T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/07\/25\/pennisetum-karley-rose\/"},"modified":"2010-07-25T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T03:05:00","slug":"pennisetum-karley-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/07\/25\/pennisetum-karley-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennisetum &#8216;Karley Rose&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/TD-UlXSVwfI\/AAAAAAAAARY\/VJNzhdWFGeA\/s1600\/Pennesetum+%27Karley+Rose%27.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494273440042303986\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/TD-UlXSVwfI\/AAAAAAAAARY\/VJNzhdWFGeA\/s320\/Pennesetum+%27Karley+Rose%27.JPG\" \/><\/a>Asian fountain grass cultivar &#8216;Karley Rose'(<em>Pennisetum orientale<\/em>) is a four season eye-catcher. It is reliably hardy in USDA zones 5-9. It produces smoky rose colored flower spikes (plumes) in early summer, which persist thru the winter months. Its dark green foliage begins upright in form, 2 1\/2 feet tall, achieving 3 feet in height in flower. By mid- summer the grass blades cascade down, true to the name \u201cfountain grass\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Grow \u2018Karley Rose\u2019 in full sun or partial areas with 6 hours sunlight to maintain optimum grass form and plume color. Despite proven drought tolerance, it prefers to grow in compost rich, well-drained soil. It has a wide soil pH preference from acidic to slightly alkaline (6.2 to 7.5).<\/p>\n<p>This clump growing grass is quick to establish and prospers for many years. Annual maintenance is minimal. In late fall or late winter cut back the old foliage to 3-4 inches and feed with a high nitrogen lawn grade fertilizer. Fountain grass has no serious disease or insect problems and is deer resistant and salt tolerant.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"lbl_culture\">The handsome foliage and attractive flower spikes of \u2018Karley Rose\u2019 provide excellent texture and seasonal color. Use as an accent specimen or group together in mass plantings.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian fountain grass cultivar &#8216;Karley Rose'(Pennisetum orientale) is a four season eye-catcher. It is reliably hardy in USDA zones 5-9. It produces smoky rose colored flower spikes (plumes) in early summer, which persist thru the winter months. Its dark green foliage begins upright in form, 2 1\/2 feet tall, achieving 3 feet in height in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[398],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}