{"id":10655,"date":"2021-09-28T03:23:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T03:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=10655"},"modified":"2021-09-28T03:32:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T03:32:08","slug":"just-before-the-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/28\/just-before-the-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Before the Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had some gorgeous autumn weather in the last few weeks, and then the rain really started in earnest yesterday. Maybe that\u2019s the most gorgeous weather of all! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are some pictures from around the garden the last few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fuchsia \u2018Cardinal\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Love this fence display<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chasmanthium latifolium, northern sea oats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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21 Gaura seedlings got potted on this past weekend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vietnam violet, Primulina tamiana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lots of begonias in bloom in the greenhouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Both male and female flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cane begonia just getting started with flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Streptocarpus flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More Streptocarpus flowers\u2013such intricate patterns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I have about 11 Dahlia \u2018Collarette Dandy\u2019 started from seed in August. This is an experiment to see if I can get them to develop tubers before it gets cold. I moved them into the greenhouse to help them along because the nights are already cool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I have more than 60 forget-me-not seedlings that I will grow along and set out in the spring in the memory garden under the tulips. I\u2019ve always had a soft spot for forget-me-nots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lots of asters around the memory garden, the native garden, and even mixed in the driveway beds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Newly planted Colchicum starting to show off.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In my head, I thought this aster was an ugly color and form and every time I watered it or looked at it, I cringed a little. But my memory of it was faulty. It is a lovely soft pink color and the form is nice. And I had to take a lot of bee photos. Had to.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicotiana sylvestris appears to be perennial in the memory garden. There are some fresh flowers coming on in the younger group. The older group set a billion or so seeds and I clipped it back and it is possibly going to throw up more flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This Yucca is getting going. It is at least five years old\u2013arrived via mail order as a tiny division. I believe it is Yucca rostrata.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another view of sea oats. I love the pattern.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I spent the weekend cleaning up and potting on greenhouse plants\u2013got through seven trays! This is Veltheimia bracteata, extremely potbound with three large bulbs in the pot. Veltheimia is a winter grower, so hopefully, I haven\u2019t thrown flowering off by potting it on now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Verbena bonariensis with a macro lens is kind of fun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This Haworthia is prolific. I divided it last year and it rewarded me with a bunch more offsets. I peeled off a bunch more so I can give them away next spring\/summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The original of this Masdevallia goes way back\u2013probably 20+ years. And I\u2019ve divided it a few times, so now I have eight pots of them. When well grown, each plant will throw 10-20 brilliant electric magenta-pink flowers in later winter and throughout spring. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Begonia \u2018Gryphon\u201d got a late start, but is putting out massive leaves now as autumn arrives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Funky Pink Begonia is still funky and still pink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Better late than never, the morning glories I started from seed months ago are vining up the pod sculpture by the driveway and they got their first flower buds this week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Poor morning glory opened its first flower during the wettest morning\u2013not much glory in that.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another Dahlia flower, though imperfect, still striking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This aster clone has spread beautifully in the easternmost edge of the memory garden. It isn\u2019t native, but the native pollinators love it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The leaves aren\u2019t too bad with black spot this year. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This remarkable hybrid tea rose gives several flushes of bloom with very little pampering. The color is hard to describe (possibly due to my color blindness)\u2013but a brilliant red, for sure. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shrub rose in the memory garden. It never really puts on a big show, but the individual flowers have nice color and form. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had some gorgeous autumn weather in the last few weeks, and then the rain really started in earnest yesterday. Maybe that\u2019s the most gorgeous weather of all! Below are some pictures from around the garden the last few weeks.<\/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-10655","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\/10655","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=10655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10675,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655\/revisions\/10675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}