{"id":7978,"date":"2016-04-10T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=7978"},"modified":"2015-10-06T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T16:12:40","slug":"summer-blooming-little-lemon-goldenrod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2016\/04\/10\/summer-blooming-little-lemon-goldenrod\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Blooming \u2018Little Lemon\u2019 Goldenrod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7985\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4778.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7985\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7985\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4778-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"'Little Lemon' Goldenrod\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4778-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4778-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4778.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newly Set &#8216;Little Lemon&#8217; Goldenrod in August<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Goldenrods are members of the aster family (Asteraceae); approximately 100 species of goldenrods are native to North America. Across most of the Eastern and Midwestern U.S., goldenrods are frequently spotted growing in moist soils in open farm fields, in ditches, and along edges of streams.\u00a0The golden yellow blooms attract countless bees, butterflies and other pollinators.<\/p>\n<p>A new addition to my garden is \u2018Little Lemon\u2019 goldenrod (<em>Solidago<\/em> Little Lemon (&#8216;Dansolitlem&#8217; PP17297)]. Little Lemon is an exceptionally compact goldenrod with bright lemony yellow flowers that bloom\u00a0from late\u00a0July\u00a0into August (USDA hardiness zones 5-8). Soft yellow\u00a0is a sharp departure from the mustard yellow color of most goldenrods. Deadheading will induce secondary flowering into September.<\/p>\n<p>Wild goldenrod species grow tall,\u00a0much too big for most urban gardens. Compact growing Little Lemon\u00a0should please\u00a0city gardeners with limited growing space. Newly set plants should be mulched and watered regularly the first season until\u00a0established. Established goldenrods are among the most drought tolerant perennials.<\/p>\n<p>Fertilize at planting time and in late winter in successive years\u00a0with 10-10-10 or equivalent. Few diseases and pests trouble goldenrods. Rust seems to be the biggest culprit, particularly if summer weather\u00a0is unusually wet. Rust rarely kills goldenrod.<\/p>\n<p>Little Lemon goldenrod combines well with other late summer blooming perennials and annuals such as Japanese asters (<em>Kalimeris<\/em>), \u2018Short and Sassy\u2019 heleniums, blanket flowers (<em>Gaillardia<\/em>), stone crop (<em>Sedum<\/em>),\u00a0and stokes asters (<em>Stokesia<\/em>)\u00a0in garden beds and mixed in containers. Their bright yellow flowers are great additions to fresh or dried flower arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Goldenrods hold their form through most of winter. On a brisk cold winter morning\u00a0a hoarfrost over the skeletal remains of goldenrods is an inspiring view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Goldenrods are members of the aster family (Asteraceae); approximately 100 species of goldenrods are native to North America. Across most of the Eastern and Midwestern U.S., goldenrods are frequently spotted growing in moist soils in open farm fields, in ditches, and along edges of streams.\u00a0The golden yellow blooms attract countless bees, butterflies and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,1218,747,776,749,710,778,674,806,665,792,774,967,625,843,1060,812,777,630,705,1181,748,706,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978"}],"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=7978"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8067,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions\/8067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}