{"id":431,"date":"2013-08-03T00:05:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T07:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2013-08-03T01:08:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T08:08:40","slug":"gardeners-tips-for-choisya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips\/gardeners-tips-for-choisya\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardeners Tips for Choisya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You pays your money and you takes your Choysia- ternata, pearl or sundance it is up to you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6636862715\/\" title=\"Choysia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7162\/6636862715_b71105f5b2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Choysia\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This Choisya <strong>&#8216;Sundance&#8217;<\/strong> is an evergreen shrub grown from a young shoot cutting. The plants are trouble free and create a dome shape 4-5 feet high and spread in a similar number of years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grown mainly for the bright yellow of the new leaves they can be nipped brown with late frosts. Such damaged, scorched or wing burnt leaves should be cut off.<\/li>\n<li>The small star shaped white flowers in April and May are very aromatic. A second flush of flowers may be obtained in Autumn.<\/li>\n<li>Leaves also smell of basil or a bit citrusy if crushed<\/li>\n<li>Choisya ternata &#8216;Aztec Pearl&#8217; commonly called Mexican Orange blossom has narrower divided leaves and I find it is a bit thin in habit. The flowers are more numerous.<\/li>\n<li>Choisya &#8216;Sundance&#8217; is quite dense and the leaves, even when they have turned green, remain attractive and glossy.<\/li>\n<li>Choisya will stand partial shade and can be used as part of an informal hedge<\/li>\n<li>Propagate in Summer or Autumn, <strong>cuttings are easy<\/strong> <strong>to grow<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Prune to keep in shape and cut out a third of the branches to renew from the base when needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5665419421\/\" title=\"Gardeners Tips 2011 Choysia ternata by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5063\/5665419421_fa32beac85.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Gardeners Tips 2011 Choysia\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You pays your money and you takes your Choysia- ternata, pearl or sundance it is up to you. This Choisya &#8216;Sundance&#8217; is an evergreen shrub grown from a young shoot cutting. The plants are trouble free and create a dome shape 4-5 feet high and spread in a similar number of years. Grown mainly for the bright yellow of the new leaves they can be nipped brown with late frosts. Such damaged, scorched or wing burnt leaves should be cut&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips\/gardeners-tips-for-choisya\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}