{"id":764,"date":"2011-01-21T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=764"},"modified":"2011-01-13T10:59:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:59:26","slug":"2012-perennial-plant-of-the-year-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/01\/21\/2012-perennial-plant-of-the-year-named\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Perennial Plant of the Year Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_765\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC03294.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-765\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-765\" title=\"DSC03294\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC03294-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC03294-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC03294-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC03294.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brunnera &#39;Jack Frost&#39;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Perennial Plant Association\u00a0(PPA) has selected <em>Brunnera macrophylla<\/em> \u2018Jack Frost\u2019 as the 2012\u00a0Perennial Plant of the Year. Runnersup for 2012 honors were <em>Panicum virgatum <\/em>\u2019Northwind\u2019, <em>Heuchera<\/em> \u2018Caramel\u2019 and <em>Chelone lyonii<\/em> \u2018Hot Lips\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Brunnera &#8216;Jack Frost&#8217;\u00a0foliage is deer resistant. It grows to a height and width of 12-15 inches. Its silvery foliage stands out in a shade garden. Brunneras produce racemes of blue star-like flowers in mid to late spring.<\/p>\n<p>Grow \u2018Jack Frost\u2019 brunnera in a compost-rich, well-drained soil. Water plants regularly during summer dry spells. Mulching around plants\u00a0 also benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Brunnera inhabits the shade garden alongside other favorites such as hostas (<em>Hosta spp<\/em>.), lungworts (<em>Pulmonaria spp<\/em>.), coralbells (<em>Heuchera spp<\/em>.) and variegated Solomon Seal (<em>Polygonatum odoratum<\/em> \u2018Variegatum\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>Brunnera \u2018Jack Frost\u2019 was commercially introduced in 2000 by Walters Gardens in Zeeland, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reminder<\/strong>: The 2011 Perennial Plant of the Year is Arkansas Bluestar (<em>Amsonia hubrichtii<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perennial Plant Association\u00a0(PPA) has selected Brunnera macrophylla \u2018Jack Frost\u2019 as the 2012\u00a0Perennial Plant of the Year. Runnersup for 2012 honors were Panicum virgatum \u2019Northwind\u2019, Heuchera \u2018Caramel\u2019 and Chelone lyonii \u2018Hot Lips\u2019. Brunnera &#8216;Jack Frost&#8217;\u00a0foliage is deer resistant. It grows to a height and width of 12-15 inches. Its silvery foliage stands out in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[652,551,625,629,630,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}