{"id":3513,"date":"2017-08-23T05:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T05:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2017-08-23T05:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T05:29:39","slug":"catching-up-after-a-busy-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/catching-up-after-a-busy-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up After a Busy Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few of last year\u2019s dahlias came through the winter. \u00a0This waterlily-flowered beauty is in the driveway bed.<\/p>\n

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The rose on the Jeff Tangen Arbor has been blooming since spring, but for some reason, the summer flowers don\u2019t self-clean the way the spring flowers do\u2026so it isn\u2019t quite so pretty right now.<\/p>\n

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But there are still some fresh flowers\u2013and oh, that sweet scent!<\/p>\n

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Here are the \u201cCola Series\u201d geraniums I grew from seed this year. \u00a0I made the mistake of not labeling them by color. \u00a0The mixed up pots would make Christopher Lloyd roll over in his grave! \u00a0But I can label them this year before they go to sleep and maybe match them up a bit better next year. \u00a0Each color is lovely, but they clash pretty badly as a group.<\/p>\n

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The other clashing is from the snapdragons that I also started\u2013they are beautiful but don\u2019t necessarily mix with the geraniums.<\/p>\n

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I had cut back this mullein way back, never expecting it to rebloom so quickly. \u00a0This is a gorgeous one\u2013I\u2019m hoping to get some seeds off of it to keep it going.<\/p>\n

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The David Austin roses have flushed with second blooms in the summer\u2013some of them, at least. \u00a0The others are fighting with the bindweed, so maybe they don\u2019t have the strength.<\/p>\n

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A soft pink geranium seedling and an orangey snapdragon.<\/p>\n

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The amazing first flower on this streptocarpus that I bought last year.<\/p>\n

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A closer view.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m working on my degree at North Seattle College. \u00a0The campus doesn\u2019t have the classic architecture and beauty that you might see at UW or Harvard, but can I consider it Ivy League, given that many of the cement walls are covered in Boston ivy? \u00a0There are some nice, interesting plantings around the campus, too.<\/p>\n

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The dwarf gesneriads that I bought late last year have been struggling at work. \u00a0This little guy threw a flower, though\u2013either to celebrate life or foreshadow death\u2013anybody\u2019s guess at this point.<\/p>\n

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Clematis on the Jeff Tangen Arbor.<\/p>\n

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Clematis and roses hanging in front of the arbor\u2026a little wild growth, but beautiful excess.<\/p>\n

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Brugmansia blooming on the patio\u2013very heady scent.<\/p>\n

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A more sunshiney view.<\/p>\n

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A few of last year\u2019s dahlias came through the winter. \u00a0This waterlily-flowered beauty is in the driveway bed. The rose on the Jeff Tangen Arbor has been blooming since spring, but for some reason, the summer flowers don\u2019t self-clean the way the spring flowers do\u2026so it isn\u2019t quite so pretty right now. But there are … Continue reading Catching Up After a Busy Summer<\/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-3513","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\/3513","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=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}