{"id":287,"date":"2010-10-06T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=287"},"modified":"2011-09-21T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:06:22","slug":"goldenrod-set-off-some-fireworks-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/10\/06\/goldenrod-set-off-some-fireworks-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldenrod &#8211;Set Off Some Fireworks This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rough-stemmed goldenrod (<em>Solidago rugosa<\/em>) grows in low woods, meadows and bogs in the eastern half of North America. \u2018Fireworks\u2019 (USDA zones 4\u20138) has a more compact plant habit than the species. This early blooming cultivar provides a long floral\u00a0display starting in mid-August and lasting through Thanksgiving, weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers spikes are numerous and held in tight clusters on upright stems. The yellow, thread-like, cascading sprays of flowers do attracts many insect pollinators; the pollen does not cause allergies as once believed.<\/p>\n<p>Goldenrods grow best in full sun to light shade. While they prefer moist, well-drained, slightly acidic soil, established plants flourish in hot, humid and dry summers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Fireworks&#8217; spreads quickly by seed and underground rhizomes and needs to be divide every 2-3 years . This upright herbaceous perennial grows 3 &#8211; 4 feet tall and 2 \u2013 2 1\/2 feet wide. Remove old flowers to encourage re-blooming. Deadhead or remove spent blooms on &#8216;Fireworks&#8217; to generate added lateral floral sprays into late October and November. Removal of seed heads reduces re-seeding threat.<\/p>\n<p>Clipping plants back in mid-June by one-half creates a better, well- branched plant, increases bloom head size, and reduces the need of re-staking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rough-stemmed goldenrod (Solidago rugosa) grows in low woods, meadows and bogs in the eastern half of North America. \u2018Fireworks\u2019 (USDA zones 4\u20138) has a more compact plant habit than the species. This early blooming cultivar provides a long floral\u00a0display starting in mid-August and lasting through Thanksgiving, weather permitting. Flowers spikes are numerous and held in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[707,521,792,627,625,630],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}