{"id":3817,"date":"2017-10-15T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2017-10-15T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T23:27:10","slug":"the-ides-of-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/15\/the-ides-of-october\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ides of October"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a cheerful October vignette with Linaria and a poorly timed Easter lily.\u00a0 One of the Cola series geraniums is in the lower right.<\/p>\n

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Some of the seedling sweet williams are leggy and not spectacular, but this one is a rich cherry shade, with decent-sized flowers and a showy lighter throat.<\/p>\n

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The coral bark maple and some other trees are coloring up nicely.<\/p>\n

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Coral bark maple against the bluest sky.<\/p>\n

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Aronia thicket starting to flare.<\/p>\n

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Close-up of aronia leaf.<\/p>\n

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I like the contrast of shade and bright and large and tiny leaves.<\/p>\n

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Impatiens still making a grand show of things.<\/p>\n

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Brilliance in the shade.<\/p>\n

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Cercis leaves dressing for their final performance.<\/p>\n

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Dramatic hops against the house.<\/p>\n

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More drama with light and shade on maple leaves.<\/p>\n

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Vivid maple leaves.<\/p>\n

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And more.<\/p>\n

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Cerise geranium hanging on the fence.<\/p>\n

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Fuchsia Cardinal still blooming and enjoying the cold nights.<\/p>\n

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More Cardinal flowers.<\/p>\n

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And more\u2026<\/p>\n

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Potato vine glowing on the back patio.<\/p>\n

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Close-up of some \u201cpotatoes\u201d forming in the leaf axils.\u00a0 This plant could be a runner if let out into the wild.\u00a0 I\u2019m only growing them in pots.<\/p>\n

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Begonia is flowering in the greenhouse during a very slow time.<\/p>\n

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A few more greenhouse flowers\u2013these are cape primroses.<\/p>\n

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And seed-grown geraniums.<\/p>\n

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Acer davidii\u00a0in pots on the shelves next to the house.\u00a0 Cramped quarters don\u2019t stop them from making lovely fall colors.<\/p>\n

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Not in my garden\u2013these monk\u2019s hoods are blooming down by my workplace in Georgetown.\u00a0 There is a gorgeous garden there in the middle of nowhere with lots of amazing plant treasures.\u00a0 I really want to add these to my own garden now that I\u2019ve seen what they can do!<\/p>\n

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Another Georgetown treasure\u2013I have grown this sage before, but not for a very long time.\u00a0 \u00a0And I haven\u2019t seen it quite this robust.\u00a0 It is the pineapple sage, Salvia elegans.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a cheerful October vignette with Linaria and a poorly timed Easter lily.\u00a0 One of the Cola series geraniums is in the lower right. Some of the seedling sweet williams are leggy and not spectacular, but this one is a rich cherry shade, with decent-sized flowers and a showy lighter throat. The coral bark … Continue reading The Ides of October<\/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-3817","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\/3817","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=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3821,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}