{"id":552,"date":"2015-07-20T03:22:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T03:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2015-07-20T03:22:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T03:22:53","slug":"hot-hot-hot-and-a-few-beautiful-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/20\/hot-hot-hot-and-a-few-beautiful-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Hot Hot and a Few Beautiful Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>95 Degrees today!\u00a0 Seattle is hot and dry and it is stressing out the plants.\u00a0 I\u2019ve watered every day that I can and I\u2019m trying to carry the plants through the worst of it, but it is touch and go.\u00a0 For sure, the shrubs I planted in the Douglas fir bed are looking pretty wilted, but a few minutes of sprinkling brings them back a bit.\u00a0 Similarly, the pumpkin vines, which I always thought loved heat, have been collapsing in the heat of the day, so I\u2019ve sprinkled them to bring them back.\n

Amidst all the heat-caused chaos, some treasures are blooming.\u00a0 My favorite right now is\u00a0 the clematis Roguchi:<\/p>\n

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In the greenhouse, the little amaryllis relative, Griffinia liboniana has quickly thrown a flower spike:<\/p>\n

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And even more quickly, it bloomed!<\/p>\n

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Lastly, the Eucomis hybrids that I grew from seed about six years ago are blooming.\u00a0 Here is one impressive spike:<\/p>\n

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I harvested my fava beans yesterday and cooked them up\u2013will eat them for lunch tomorrow.\u00a0 I ripped the plants out of the bed and fertilized it with Happy Frog before planting seedlings of the Wonderberry there I had started in the greenhouse.\u00a0 Apparently, these are Solanum retroflexum (formerly Solanum x burbankii, a hybrid originating from the great Luther Burbank).\u00a0 See more info here.<\/a><\/p>\n

It is too hot to do much other garden work, but cooler weather is coming next week.\u00a0 I\u2019ll look to get some chores done (and document them) next week.<\/p>\n

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