{"id":361,"date":"2010-10-27T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=361"},"modified":"2013-11-22T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:52:11","slug":"the-fall-look-of-arkansas-bluestar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/10\/27\/the-fall-look-of-arkansas-bluestar\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas Bluestar Great In Spring, Summer and Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Amsonia-hubr-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-362\" title=\"Amsonia hubr (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Amsonia-hubr-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Amsonia-hubr-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Amsonia-hubr-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue star (<em>Amsonia hubrichtii<\/em>) exhibits one of\u00a0nature&#8217;s finest autumn\u00a0foliar displays. This Arkansas native is a long-lived\u00a0perennial and\u00a0prospers here in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). After its initial year in the garden, amsonia exhibits good heat and drought tolerances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Its fine textured needle -like foliage is very soft and airy. In the fall the foliage turns a stunning golden yellow and\u00a0makes a\u00a0lovely backdrop\u00a0among other fall flowering perennials, such as asters\u00a0and mums. Amsonia&#8217;s fall color stands\u00a0apart against a background of tall evergreens.<\/p>\n<p>In late spring (May) small light blue flowers open in abundance.\u00a0Amsonia thrives in most soils and requires\u00a0little maintenance\u00a0throughout the year. Plants grow 3 ft. tall by 3 ft. wide and\u00a0grow best in full or part sun. Stems tend to flop\u00a0in shady areas. To\u00a0maintain shorter more compact plants, prune them back to 6-8 inch height after flowering.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas blue star was selected the 2011 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue star (Amsonia hubrichtii) exhibits one of\u00a0nature&#8217;s finest autumn\u00a0foliar displays. This Arkansas native is a long-lived\u00a0perennial and\u00a0prospers here in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). After its initial year in the garden, amsonia exhibits good heat and drought tolerances.\u00a0 Its fine textured needle -like foliage is very soft and airy. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[674,806,774,625,843,601,705,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5743,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}