{"id":2046,"date":"2011-10-19T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2011-10-10T14:27:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T18:27:55","slug":"sacred-lily-rohdea-brings-good-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/10\/19\/sacred-lily-rohdea-brings-good-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Lily (Rohdea) Brings Good Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2047\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_3698.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2047\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2047\" title=\"IMG_3698\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_3698-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_3698-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_3698-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacred Lily (Rohdea japonica)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Depending on where you garden, Sacred Lily (<em>Rohdea japonica<\/em>) is either an evergreen or herbaceous perennial groundcover. It is slow growing and prospers in a moist shady woodland environment.\u00a0 Small clumps of \u00a0long, strap-like leaves emerge from an underground crown to about 15\u201d in height. Foliage is comprised of 18 inch long strap- like leaves which are 3 inches wide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sacred lily is planted in multiples as a woodland groundcover or grown by itself as a single specimen. In spring, its greenish white bloom spike is quite insignificant as it does not extend beyond the foliage canopy. In most years sacred lily produces a cluster of bright red-orange berries in the fall and winter. The fruit contrast beautifully with its dark green foliage.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s evergreen through zone 6 and survives further north, where the foliage dies back each winter.\u00a0 Sacred lily prefers a compost rich, moist well-drained soil, but does tolerate heavy clay soil. An established clump is quite drought tolerant and may be divided in early spring.\u00a0 Disease and pest problems are not an issue.<\/p>\n<p>Native to China and Japan, sacred lily is associated with long life and good fortune. It is a treasured gift to one who receives one. There are several variants closely held by dedicated plant collectors which can be quite costly. Availability is limited to specialty plant internet sources.<\/p>\n<p>Sacred lily recently has been re-classified into the lily-of-the-valley family (Convallariaceae).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on where you garden, Sacred Lily (Rohdea japonica) is either an evergreen or herbaceous perennial groundcover. It is slow growing and prospers in a moist shady woodland environment.\u00a0 Small clumps of \u00a0long, strap-like leaves emerge from an underground crown to about 15\u201d in height. Foliage is comprised of 18 inch long strap- like leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[605,674,800,628,791,802,630],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046"}],"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=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}