{"id":4743,"date":"2016-09-25T01:30:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T00:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2016-09-20T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:58:31","slug":"strange-and-attractive-autumn-shrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/strange-and-attractive-autumn-shrubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange and Attractive Autumn Shrubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is worth inspecting closely the plants that have waited all year to bloom or display special features.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2538\/3897772708_5fd4a84ba6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This purple and white flower combination was covering an 8 foot high and wide bushy shrub at Thorp Perrow. It was catalogued as <strong>&#8216;Clerodendron trichotomum&#8217;<\/strong>. I have managed to kill my own Clerodendron so I was happy to see a large sweetly scented plant in such robust health. The white flowers and maroon calyces will be followed by blue berries for which the plant gets its Autumn plaudits. I would recommend this variety rather than Clerodendron bungei which is less gainly and has feotid leaves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3510\/3900028888_41424fa052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am trying to work out what this shapely shrub with the long blue pods is called. Any ideas?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3418\/3900035490_6e2a3a6355.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cornus Kausa &#8216;Gold Star&#8217; is a variety to look out for with the variegated foliage and the red seed pods in Autumn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Resources <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/Home\">Royal Horticultural Society RHS<\/a> &#8216;Gardening for All&#8217;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccpg.com\/\">National Council for Conservation of Plants and Gardens<\/a> &#8216;Conservation through Cultivation.&#8217;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenorganic.org.uk\/\">Garden Organic<\/a> National Charity for Organic Gardening.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/gardening\/\">BBC Gardening<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is worth inspecting closely the plants that have waited all year to bloom or display special features. This purple and white flower combination was covering an 8 foot high and wide bushy shrub at Thorp Perrow. It was catalogued as &#8216;Clerodendron trichotomum&#8217;. I have managed to kill my own Clerodendron so I was happy to see a large sweetly scented plant in such robust health. The white flowers and maroon calyces will be followed by blue berries for which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/strange-and-attractive-autumn-shrubs\/\"> 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],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","tag-clerodendron-trichotomum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","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=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}