{"id":13637,"date":"2011-02-16T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=13637"},"modified":"2011-02-16T11:02:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:02:25","slug":"foliage-follow-up-february-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=13637","title":{"rendered":"Foliage Follow-Up February 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>This Salvia canariensis var. candissima from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anniesannuals.com\/plt_lst\/lists\/search\/lst.srch.asp?prodid=2486&#038;srch_term=salvia%20canariensis\">Annie&#8217;s Annuals<\/a> is furrier than the species and has been incredibly difficult to photograph.  Ever since I read a recent trashy news story on how beauties like Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe shaved their faces of any peach fuzz for the camera (<em>Huffington Post<\/em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/01\/21\/marilyn-monroe-elizabeth-taylor-shave_n_812200.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>), that photographic challenge now has some context and makes a little more sense to me.   The dusky pink blooms and bracts have a similar character to Salvia sclarea var. turkestanica.  I moved it so many times last year that it never bloomed, so have dedicated quite a bit of sunny garden this year to this salvia, which will inevitably become ginormous.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/21411aft019.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found extremely fuzzy plants difficult to capture, for example, as opposed to succulents, which practically photograph themselves.<br \/>\n(Unnamed graptopetalum.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/21511morn010.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ligularia tussilagenea &#8216;Argentea.&#8217;  This ligularia\/farfugium would seem to be pushing variegation to an unhealthy extreme, with some leaves in total photosynthetic denial, possessing no discernible pigment at all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/21411aft009.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brachysema praemorsum &#8216;Bronze Butterfly.&#8217;  <a href=\"http:\/\/faroutflora.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/01\/australiasanta-cruz-arboretum\/\">Far Out Flora<\/a> visited the Santa Cruz Arboretum&#8217;s Australian section and gives some background on this Australian shrub, which grows in my gravel garden among agaves, phormiums, grasses, and succulents.  It&#8217;s past time for brachysema to be reintroduced to nurseries again.  A tough, mid-sized shrub that never looks disheveled.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/21211morn022.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melianthus major &#8216;Purple Haze,&#8217; recently planted from a gallon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/2111aft003.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the way this tetrapanax wants to join in the conversation, almost climbing into the chair to take a seat at the table.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/215tetra002.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Euphorbia characias &#8216;Silver Swan.&#8217;  There are so many variegated varieties of E. characias now, it&#8217;s hard to recapture the excitement when the &#8216;Tasmanian Tiger&#8217; roared into nurseries then pitifully mewed and faded away in gardens.  This &#8216;Silver Swan&#8217; has been a very strong grower so far.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/215eve012.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pam at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penick.net\/digging\">Digging<\/a> hosts the Foliage Follow-Up on the 16th of each month.  Branches and bark are welcome too.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Salvia canariensis var. candissima from Annie&#8217;s Annuals is furrier than the species and has been incredibly difficult to photograph. 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