{"id":6795,"date":"2015-04-25T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2014-10-17T11:14:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:14:28","slug":"new-pams-mountain-bouquet-kousa-dogwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2015\/04\/25\/new-pams-mountain-bouquet-kousa-dogwood\/","title":{"rendered":"New ‘Pam’s Mountain Bouquet’ Kousa Dogwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fused Bracts of ‘Pam’s Mountain Bouquet’ Chinese Dogwood (photo by Dr. Alan Windham, UT Plant Pathologist, Nashville, TN)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018Pam\u2019s Mountain Bouquet\u2019 is a new Chinese dogwood (Cornus kousa<\/i>) cultivar from the plant scientists from the University of Tennessee Dogwood Working Team (USDA hardiness zones 5-8). Mountain Bouquet is a near-white flowering form whose petal-like bracts fuse into near perfect squares. The cultivar\u00a0blooms slightly later than other flowering dogwoods, helping to extend dogwood’s spring flowering season.<\/p>\n

Mountain Bouquet tends to bloom heavily annually.\u00a0Its unique fused bracts should become the point of conversation in your garden. About 82% of all bracts display some degree of fusion among the yellow-green colored bracts. UT plant scientists report that 80% of bracts were partially attached; 50% had all four bracts fused together. Mountain Bouquet is also highly resistant to powdery mildew and dogwood anthracnose foliar diseases.<\/p>\n

The cultivar was discovered among a planting of seedlings at the University of Tennessee (UT) Arboretum in Oak Ridge, TN from seed gifted to UT by Ms. Polly Hill. \u2018Pam’s Mountain Bouquet\u2019 is a selection from the original seedlings.<\/p>\n

Mountain Bouquet is expected to become available to homeowners in the next 3-4 years as nurseries build up their inventory. You may ask: \u201cwho is Pam?\u201d. She is the wife of Dr. Robert (Bob) Trigiano who developed this amazing new dogwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u2018Pam\u2019s Mountain Bouquet\u2019 is a new Chinese dogwood (Cornus kousa) cultivar from the plant scientists from the University of Tennessee Dogwood Working Team (USDA hardiness zones 5-8). Mountain Bouquet is a near-white flowering form whose petal-like bracts fuse into near perfect squares. The cultivar\u00a0blooms slightly later than other flowering dogwoods, helping to extend dogwood’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,669,440,674,806,791,1060,951,630,705,7,850],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795"}],"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=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6870,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}