{"id":26607,"date":"2012-02-16T17:28:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T21:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=26607"},"modified":"2012-02-16T17:28:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T21:28:19","slug":"foliage-followup-february-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=26607","title":{"rendered":"Foliage Followup February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Pam at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penick.net\/digging\/?p=14979\">Digging<\/a> hosts this sequel to Bloom Day on the 16th of each month, a chance to stand up for photosynthesis and plead a case for the slighted leaf, doomed in most gardens to forever playing second fiddle to the alluring procreative strategies of plants.<br \/>\nThe adaptive strategies of leaves are equally compelling, and I offer Exhibit A, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.hawaii.edu\/~eherring\/hawnprop\/por-molo.htm\">Portulaca molokiniensi<\/a>s, a Hawaiian succulent, which has the distinction of being my first smart-phone purchase.  Being one of the gazillions that got an iPhone for Christmas, I was able to check my blog to confirm this portulaca&#8217;s desirable status as a Future Plant Purchase, which seemed weirdly momentous at the time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/february2012\/216fol011-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A strong Exhibit B would be the spiral aloe, A. polyphylla, photo taken at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchellmaher.org\/\">MB Maher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/february2012\/_MG_9308-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the setting for a happy spiral aloe, grown at an angle for perfect drainage.  Summer moisture, light shade.<br \/>\n(I&#8217;ve only killed two so far. )<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/february2012\/_MG_9315-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Leaves or flowers?  Dean Martin or Jerry Lewis?  Harpo or Groucho?  Holmes or Watson?  No need for false choices &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t have to be an either\/or proposition.  UCBG was selling one of my favorite daisies, attractive in leaf and flower, Argyranthemum haouarytheum, which I haven&#8217;t seen on offer in many years, surprising since it&#8217;s so easy from cuttings.  Very similar to A. foeniculaceum, which is probably what I&#8217;ve grown in the past.  From the Canary Islands, part of Macronesia (Greek for &#8220;islands of the fortunate&#8221;).  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/february2012\/213sftrip015-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pam at Digging hosts this sequel to Bloom Day on the 16th of each month, a chance to stand up for photosynthesis and plead a case for the slighted leaf, doomed in most gardens to forever playing second fiddle to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=26607\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[30,36,898,27],"tags":[58,1785,228,21,1784],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-6V9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26607"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26689,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26607\/revisions\/26689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}