{"id":101194,"date":"2022-07-01T20:34:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T00:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=101194"},"modified":"2022-07-01T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T00:34:51","slug":"full-sun-near-the-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=101194","title":{"rendered":"full sun near the coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Stipa gigantea illuminated at the Hoffman Wonder Garden late June, Manzanita, Oregon, with Kniphofia thomsonii. My Giant Feather Grass is a couple years away from making a spectacle like this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Democracy is a garden that must be carefully tended, said one of our 21st century presidents. (Care to guess which one? Hint: his spouse famously broke with protocol and planted a vegetable garden near the White House. Ah, what innocent times, when defying norms meant planting vegetables!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tetrapanax papyrifer and Rhodocoma capensis seem safe bets in the ground in full sun, both planted last autumn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And now, thanks to obstructive, dysfunctional politics, gardens need to be even more carefully tended — extreme weather events push all our gardens (and farms) out of the well-studied, predictable norms that filled farmers almanacs and governed their care for decades. Observe and adapt — we are all Keynesian gardeners now. (“When the facts change<\/em>, I change<\/em> my mind – what do you do, sir?”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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traditionally for the shade, Calceolaria ‘Kentish Hero’ happy in fullish sun in coastal zone 8b<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of the mysteries I’m trying to pierce here in the new garden at the Oregon coast is the strength of the coastal sun. Days go by without evidence of it (fine by me), and I’m told many half-shade lovers will flourish in full sun here. And since all I have is full sun at the moment, that’s where I planted Darmera peltata. And it was fine until temperatures meteorically spiked to 96F over a couple days and crisped those lush leaves. High heat, even short-lived, always seems to get the last (demonic) laugh. But with the soil still saturated, overall the heat mostly had a salutary effect. Most of the moonstruck garden dealt with the high temps as though lightly slapped in the face, to snap out of it, it’s summer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anisodontea ‘Strybing Beauty’ and annual Orlaya grandiflora reacting to the slap of warmer temperatures, both brought north from the zone 10 garden, where the anisodontea blooms through the winter and the self-sown orlaya will have been finished months ago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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seeds of Papaver setigerum hitched a ride north from the zone 10 garden too — these would have been finished blooming months ago in zone 10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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abutilon thriving in full sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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not surprisingly, plantings in the stock tanks have put on much faster growth than those in the ground this cool spring\/early summer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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sideritis in a container is far ahead of those seedlings brought north and planted in the ground. Heavy garden soil is obviously a factor, but the garden seedlings haven’t died yet, just much slower to start growth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Angelica stricta ‘Purpurea’ on the left is flourishing in the ground. I wasn’t sure the tap-rooted angelica would appreciate being dug up and transported north, so its vigor is a nice surprise. Teucrium fruticans ‘Azureum’ shares the container with sideritis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Delicate-looking Scrophularia aquatica ‘Variegata’ sailed through the heat wave unsinged. (I attempted to grow this in the zone 10 garden way back in 2013<\/a>.). This is one of those foliage plants that often gets dinged by catalogues with the descriptor “insignificant flowers.” Never fear, my garden is a safe haven for the clan of plants with insignificant flowers! I love the line the flowering stems of the variegated water figwort draw upward. Planted in early April, purchased at Hortlandia. I always plant immediately after purchase, so I know it was in the ground early April. Slothful in most other ways, I can’t abide purchased plants intended for the garden to be idling in pots — a habit developed in zone 10, when forgetting to water a potted plant for half a day could spell its end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another candidate for the garden of insignificant flowers from Cassinia leptophylla fulvida<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pots have been invaluable for shifting unhappy plants into gentler light, like this Fuchsia magellanica ‘Aurea’ that was sweating it out in the garden in full sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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some new plants just get on with it, like Kniphofia pauciflora, barely leafed out but gamely throwing a few flowers anyway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More entries for the garden of insignificant flowers — Tanacetum niveum, unperturbed by sun or the lack of it, floats clouds of little daisies over silver, ferny leaves, and I am a fan. Dug up from the zone 10 garden. With Eryngium ‘Big Blue’ behind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Singed leaves of Hydrangea ‘Dark Angel’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Along with rhodies and Japanese maples and Shasta daisies, hydrangeas are a thing here. They do really well — there are farms<\/em> of them. As the keeper of the garden with insignificant flowers, I didn’t feel pressed to include hydrangeas — until this dark-leaved one showed up at the farmer’s market. Not keeping current with all things hydrangea, I did not know hybridizers were turning their attention to the leaves. And before the heat wave hit, these dark leaves were really something<\/em>. In any case, it’s always good to keep some trade bait around..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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