{"id":893,"date":"2011-05-07T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=893"},"modified":"2011-05-02T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:07:38","slug":"stop-ignoring-enkianthus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/05\/07\/stop-ignoring-enkianthus\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Ignoring Enkianthus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1157\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Enkianthus-campanulatus-Red-Bells-2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1157\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1157\" title=\"Enkianthus campanulatus 'Red Bells' (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Enkianthus-campanulatus-Red-Bells-2-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Enkianthus-campanulatus-Red-Bells-2-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Enkianthus-campanulatus-Red-Bells-2-1024x687.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;Red Bells&#39; enkianthus<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From the photo, looks like a pieris? No, it&#8217;s redveined enkianthus (<em>Enkianthus campanulatus<\/em>) and its brightly colored bell-shaped flowers are attention getters\u00a0in the early May garden.\u00a0Lovely cream yellow to\u00a0orangy red bell shaped flowers are faintly red veined. The bell shaped blooms\u00a0exude a\u00a0slight scent, one that you may like or not.<\/p>\n<p>From the start, growth rate is slow, but once established, shrubs mature to 8 to 12 feet in height and about the same in spread.\u00a0Culture is similar to azaleas, pieris\u00a0and rhododendrons which they are related to. Enkianthus\u00a0grows well in full sun to light shade. They are not as fussy regarding\u00a0pH and\u00a0moisture needs, provided the soil is well drained. Enkianthus becomes well established\u00a0within two years, and are rated as moderately drought tolerant. Do provide supplemental irrigation\u00a0during the driest periods of summer.<\/p>\n<p>Over twenty cultivars are listed, varying in flower colors from near white (pale cream), pink and red. Fall color is quite variable among vcultivars and growing site from\u00a0yellow, orange or red. Enkianthus has no serious disease or insect problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the photo, looks like a pieris? No, it&#8217;s redveined enkianthus (Enkianthus campanulatus) and its brightly colored bell-shaped flowers are attention getters\u00a0in the early May garden.\u00a0Lovely cream yellow to\u00a0orangy red bell shaped flowers are faintly red veined. The bell shaped blooms\u00a0exude a\u00a0slight scent, one that you may like or not. From the start, growth rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,605,700,630,7,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"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=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}