{"id":15941,"date":"2011-04-15T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=15941"},"modified":"2011-04-15T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T21:20:14","slug":"bloom-day-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=15941","title":{"rendered":"Bloom Day April 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southern California, a mile from the ocean, zone 10, spring a couple months ahead of most of the country<\/em>.<\/p>\n

With the grasses joining the frothy euphorbias in bloom, there’s now a supercharged atmosphere that animates the garden.
\nI love it when plants start to inhabit planes other than just ground level and do so with very little bulk. The see-through plants. Aerial fizz.<\/p>\n

Pennisetum spathiolatum shooting skyward amongst anigozanthos.<\/p>\n

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Luzula sylvatica ‘Aurea,’ the golden woodrush. The bluer leaves are the Tradescantia ‘Concord Grape,’ now blooming, this photo taken a couple weeks earlier.<\/p>\n

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Euphorbia ‘Ascot Rainbow’<\/p>\n

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Euphorbia characias ‘Silver Swan,’ Libertia peregrinans, Salvia verticillata ‘Purple Rain’ among blades of crocosmia yet to bloom.<\/p>\n

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Annual poppies are still swaying, but not much longer. Temps forecast in the 80’s for the weekend. Salvia ‘Wendy’s Wish in bloom in the background.<\/p>\n

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A magellanica fuchsia ‘Hawkshead’<\/p>\n

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The alpine aloe, A. thompsonii, its 5-foot bloom stalk knocked nearly ground level by strong winds. Just noticed yesterday two more buds to join the four in bloom.<\/p>\n

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A nice geum from Annie’s Annuals, throwing up lots of bloom, G. magellanicum.
\n(Probably need to thank Ferdinand Magellan as well as Carol at May Dreams Gardens<\/a> this Bloom Day.)<\/p>\n

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G. magellanicum leaning into Canna ‘Intrigue’<\/p>\n

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Yes, that orange is also adjacent to purple in the garden, fronting this iris relative from Australia, Patersonia drummondii, with very little information available on it. Reminds me of blue-eyed grass\/sisyrinchium with more substantial flowers, the leaves taller at about a foot. Purchased in the last month, probably just a spring bloomer. Here in its nursery pot.<\/p>\n

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And here in the ground, flowers closed in the early morning. Also reminds me of dietes, the fortnight lilies.<\/p>\n

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Amicia zygomeris has been lightly blooming all winter but is exploding into growth and more blooms.<\/p>\n

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Massive cumulus cloud of Geranium maderense ‘Alba’ bisected by a branch of the smoke tree ‘Grace’<\/p>\n

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‘Grace,’ who is also in bloom.<\/p>\n

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A different angle, with G. maderense in the distance, Euphorbia ‘Ascot Rainbow’ in the foreground, Euphorbia mellifera distant left.
\n(Cordyline is in a large pot with pelargoniums, coprosma, musschia, aeonium, Fuchsia ‘Baby Chang,’ and probably a lot more.)<\/p>\n

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Potted pelargoniums<\/p>\n

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Knautia macedonia<\/p>\n

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Salvias, dyckias, phlomis, Helleborus argutifolius still with fresh-looking blooms, a wonderful interval before the heat of summer arrives.<\/p>\n

Wishing you all a vibrant Bloom Day to savor and enjoy this generous month.<\/p>\n

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