{"id":3987,"date":"2012-10-24T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2012-10-24T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:33:52","slug":"take-redtip-photinia-off-your-planting-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/10\/24\/take-redtip-photinia-off-your-planting-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Redtip Photinia Off Your Planting List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3990\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Photinia-4.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3990\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3990\" title=\"Photinia (4)\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Photinia-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Photinia-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Photinia-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Photinia-4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mid-April Flowering of Photinia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some 30-40 years ago redtip photinia (<em>Photinia<\/em> x <em>fraseri<\/em>) was commonly planted as a broadleaf evergreen hedge in the Southeast U.S. (USDA hardiness zones 6 -8). \u00a0This dense growing 15 foot tall and wide shrub sports\u00a0firey red new leaves in spring and summer. The red leaf\u00a0tint fades to\u00a0green\u00a0within a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Many homeowners\u00a0desire a \u00a0fast growing evergreen shrub when planting a\u00a0hedge or\u00a0screen\u00a0between their neighbors and redtip photinia delivers. Its white flowers were not foul-smelling as other photinia species.<\/p>\n<p>Photinias are great plants in many areas of the U.S., but not in the humid Northeast and Southeastern\u00a0U.S. Redtip photinia is highly susceptible to <em>Entomosporium<\/em> leaf spot, a fungal disease. An almost weekly preventative spray program to protect\u00a0the plant foliage all season long becomes\u00a0costly and impractical.<\/p>\n<p>Not all photinias are disease prone. Chinese photinia (<em>P. serrulata<\/em>) is leaf spot resistant. It grows taller at 20 feet in height and width,\u00a0but lacks the red foliage color. Its flowers\u00a0emit a foul\u00a0odor in late March\/early April.\u00a0 Japanese photinia (<em>P. glabra<\/em>) is similar in shrub size and shape\u00a0to redtip. Its\u00a0 spring foliage color is\u00a0bright red and blooms almost two weeks later in mid-April. However, Japanese photinia is susceptible to leaf spot.<\/p>\n<p>Photinias\u00a0handle average well-drained soils in full or partial sunlight.\u00a0Planted in\u00a0heavy shade, foliage density is less and\u00a0more prone to disease. Overhead watering in\u00a0dry summer periods results\u00a0in higher disease outbreaks. Hedge or prune\u00a0photinias in late winter or late summer when not actively growing.<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0alternative broadleaf evergreen shrubs\u00a0include hollies (Ilex), cherry laurels (Prunus), gold dust shrubs (Aucuba), euonymus, mahonias, and nandinas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 30-40 years ago redtip photinia (Photinia x fraseri) was commonly planted as a broadleaf evergreen hedge in the Southeast U.S. (USDA hardiness zones 6 -8). \u00a0This dense growing 15 foot tall and wide shrub sports\u00a0firey red new leaves in spring and summer. The red leaf\u00a0tint fades to\u00a0green\u00a0within a few weeks. Many homeowners\u00a0desire a \u00a0fast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,650,806,649,774,960,936,601,630,705,7,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987"}],"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=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}