{"id":10333,"date":"2021-04-26T04:59:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T04:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=10333"},"modified":"2021-04-26T04:59:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T04:59:47","slug":"where-are-the-april-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/26\/where-are-the-april-showers\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the April Showers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, it did rain yesterday. All day. But it feels like it has been a dry spring so far. I cleaned out and planted the (formerly) raised veggie garden today and after I put in spinach, radish, arugula, cress, lettuce and carrot seeds, I watered it really well. There isn\u2019t any rain in the forecast in the next ten days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I may need to water the memory garden this week, as well, since much of it is under the Douglas fir and none of yesterday\u2019s rain actually reached it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a seed-heavy weekend. I planted a bunch of pots of seeds yesterday. The seeds included veggies destined for the veggie bed or pots in the greenhouse or on the patio including tomatoes, peppers, spinach, eggplants, zucchini, cucumbers, kale, and pumpkins. There were also flowers, including a second batch of Nicotiana langsdorfii, petunias, sunflowers (two types), and marigolds. Some of the seeds ended up on the heat mat under lights and the rest are sitting outside on the potting bench. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The other seeds I planted were morning glory vine seeds of a Mt. Fuji Lavender strain. I put these in a couple of pots alongside Leon\u2019s \u201cPods\u201d sculpture. This was brother Tim\u2019s idea for a fun way to grow a vine. I did this several years ago, but the vines only made it half way up the sculpture. I\u2019m hoping with an earlier start and some fertilizer, I can get these vines all the way up the sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are some photos from the garden today\u2013lots of beauty and colors!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Late tulips replacing the earlier ones\u2013love these that change color from yellow to pink.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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You can see the cleaned out veggie bed on the right. The tulips in front here have set seed\u2013I may try to grow some from seed to see what I get.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Fringecups blooming in the native plant garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Trillium ovatum in the native plant garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Another view.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Another color-changing tulip! These started as yellow and red and ended up white and red.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Another bunch of these tulips. I had planted them in batches in the memory garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Geraniums, tulips, and candytuft.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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I want to be mad at \u2018Bill Wallis\u2019 Geranium for being a marauder, but they look great right now and there wasn\u2019t anything else where they grew (that I remember), so their enthusiasm hasn\u2019t caused any harm.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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My favorite Clivia this year\u2013this one started a nice light yellow and is aging to a milky cream\u2013so close to white!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Clivia \u2018Light of Buddha\u2019 in flower. The variegation is stunning this time of year. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A nice Clivia umbel.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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This peachy pastel Clivia has flowers that stay more closed than most of my others.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Single artist tulip left in the garden in front of the greenhouse. Exquisite form!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Another view.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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And yet another\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Well, it did rain yesterday. All day. But it feels like it has been a dry spring so far. I cleaned out and planted the (formerly) raised veggie garden today and after I put in spinach, radish, arugula, cress, lettuce and carrot seeds, I watered it really well. There isn\u2019t any rain in the forecast … Continue reading Where are the April Showers?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10360,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions\/10360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}