{"id":77,"date":"2013-01-24T00:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T00:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:38:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T20:38:30","slug":"spectacular-loropetalum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular Loropetalum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?attachment_id=78\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RSCN0257.jpg\" alt=\"Loropetalum, Georgia, Zone 7b, Shrub\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RSCN0257.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RSCN0257-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RSCN0257-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Loropetalum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I was shocked to see my huge, 10 ft tall by 6 ft wide,&nbsp;<strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Loropetalum<\/strong>&nbsp;in full bloom so early. The extra warm weather a few weeks ago may have brought this about. I jogged back up the driveway to get my camera and captured this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also called <strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Fringe Flower<\/strong>, this beauty is related to Witch Hazel.&nbsp;There are many shapes, sizes and varieties of this great plant.&nbsp;On the&nbsp;left, the 10 ft. monster, badly needing a pruning when finished blooming.&nbsp;The other is a 10 inch tall dwarf, weeping variety. One of my few purchases, I planted it under the&nbsp;Crabapple Tree this past spring.&nbsp;It should only get 2-3 ft. tall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?attachment_id=80\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lorocrop-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"Lorocrop\" class=\"wp-image-80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lorocrop-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lorocrop-1024x990.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lorocrop-624x603.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?attachment_id=81\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-81\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DLorocrop-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"DLorocrop\" class=\"wp-image-81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DLorocrop-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DLorocrop-1024x916.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DLorocrop-624x558.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked to see my huge, 10 ft tall by 6 ft wide,&nbsp;Loropetalum&nbsp;in full bloom so early. The extra warm weather a few weeks ago may have brought this about. I jogged back up the driveway to get my camera and captured this. Also called Fringe Flower, this beauty is related to Witch Hazel.&nbsp;There &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=77\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spectacular Loropetalum&#8221;<\/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":[16,2,12,21,8],"tags":[78,46,52,29,51,38,102,28],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushes","category-landscapeplants","category-perennials","category-profiles","category-shrubs","tag-deer-resistant","tag-drought-tolerant","tag-fringeflower","tag-georgia","tag-loropetalum","tag-perennial","tag-shrubs","tag-zone-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}