{"id":304,"date":"2011-03-22T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=304"},"modified":"2011-03-22T10:59:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:59:25","slug":"misty-blue-white-baneberry-is-dolls-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/03\/22\/misty-blue-white-baneberry-is-dolls-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Misty Blue’ Doll’s Eye Will Catch Your Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"\"<\/a>White baneberry or doll’s eye (Actaea pachypoda<\/em>)\u00a0is a strikingly beautiful\u00a0native\u00a0perennial. The cultivar ‘Misty Blue’ was first discovered at Mt. Cuba Center in Greenville,\u00a0Delaware.\u00a0The bluish-green foliage\u00a0is multi-stemmed and\u00a0finely cut\u00a0from mid-spring thru the summer months.\u00a0Grow it\u00a0in a moist shade garden environment.<\/p>\n

Lovely\u00a0fringed white\u00a0flowers appear in April. In the fall clusters of\u00a0white “doll’s eye” berry fruits\u00a0sit\u00a0atop brightly red pedicels. Each white berry\u00a0is marked with a distinct black dot. Fruits persist\u00a0over 4 – 6 weeks.<\/p>\n

Baneberry is a long-lived perennial which\u00a0thrives in a moist, well-drained, compost rich soil.\u00a0White baneberry\u00a0grows 2 – 4 feet tall and\u00a0is best grouped en masse\u00a0so that\u00a0its\u00a0lovely\u00a0blue-green summer foliage\u00a0receives the attention it deserves. Actaea is reliably hardy throughout USDA zones 3 – 8.<\/p>\n

Because of its new status, availability of ‘Misty Blue’ baneberry\u00a0is limited primarily from internet and mail order catalog selling native plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0White baneberry or doll’s eye (Actaea pachypoda)\u00a0is a strikingly beautiful\u00a0native\u00a0perennial. The cultivar ‘Misty Blue’ was first discovered at Mt. Cuba Center in Greenville,\u00a0Delaware.\u00a0The bluish-green foliage\u00a0is multi-stemmed and\u00a0finely cut\u00a0from mid-spring thru the summer months.\u00a0Grow it\u00a0in a moist shade garden environment. Lovely\u00a0fringed white\u00a0flowers appear in April. In the fall clusters of\u00a0white “doll’s eye” berry fruits\u00a0sit\u00a0atop brightly red […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,683,605,9,627,625,630,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}