{"id":504,"date":"2012-10-22T00:30:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T07:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2012-10-22T01:11:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T08:11:27","slug":"osmathus-shrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/osmathus-shrubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Osmanthus Shrubs and Uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Osmanthus is an attractive genus of evergreen shrubs. The leaves are holly like with a leathery texture and spikes. The young leaves are green, red, cream or purple and below is a variegated example.<br \/>\nThis variety O. hetrophylus is slow growing but can make a dense hedge or small tree. The flowers are sweetly scented in autumn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/osmanthus-hetrophyllus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-505\" title=\"osmanthus-hetrophyllus\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/osmanthus-hetrophyllus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/osmanthus-hetrophyllus.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/osmanthus-hetrophyllus-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Other Osmanthus and Uses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Osmanthus delavayi grows upto 6 foot tall and wide with fragrant white april flowers. It can be grown as a small tree.<\/li>\n<li>Osmanthus yunnanensis &#8216;New Zealand Holly&#8217; a fast growing large shrub with olive green leaves with flowers that can be a bit of a let down.<\/li>\n<li>Osmanthus americanus &#8216;Devil Wood&#8217; is a bit tender in the UK.<\/li>\n<li>Osmanthus x burkwoodii which has small leathery leaves and fragrant white flowers in late spring. It can make a good hedge.<\/li>\n<li>Osmanthus heterophyllus &#8216;Variegatus&#8217; can be used as ground cover.<\/li>\n<li>Osmanthus heterophyllus &#8216;Goshiki&#8217; is an evergreen compact, fairly slow-growing shrub with dark-green, holly-like leaves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14502 aligncenter\" title=\"osmanthus purpurea\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/osmanthus-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/osmanthus-004.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/osmanthus-004-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/osmanthus-004-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gardeners Top Tip<\/strong><br \/>\nOsmanthus are cheap to buy when small, easy to grow and care for and are strongly recommended for a mixed border or ornamental woodland.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Gardeners Tips Favourite Links <\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/\">The Royal Horticultural Society <\/a> (RHS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinegardensociety.net\/\">Alpine Garden Society<\/a> (AGS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenorganic.org.uk\/\">Garden Organic<\/a> the national charity for organic gardening formerly Henry Double Day Research<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/gardening\/\">BBC Gardening<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osmanthus is an attractive genus of evergreen shrubs. The leaves are holly like with a leathery texture and spikes. The young leaves are red, cream or purple and below is a variegated example.<br \/>\nThis variety O. hetrophylus is slow growing but can make a dense hedge or small tree. The flowers are sweetly scented in autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}