{"id":27143,"date":"2012-03-16T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=27143"},"modified":"2012-03-16T00:08:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T04:08:13","slug":"bloom-day-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=27143","title":{"rendered":"Bloom Day March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dead car battery after work has me skidding and sliding to make the Bloom Day deadline. Some of the new plants I ordered for spring became candidates for March Bloom Day literally right out of the box. Like this Tibouchina granulosa ‘Gibraltar’ from Plant Delights<\/a>. This photo was taken the day after it arrived and was unpacked.<\/p>\n

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Every spring this wisteria surges over the fence from a neighbor’s property, an invader in the southeast corner of the back garden quietly determined to throttle my smoke tree in its tendrils. Something borrowed and blue (okay, bluish-lilac) to admire when in bloom, but I’m always grateful that it’s somebody else’s problem the rest of the year. The more I hack it back off our fence, the better it blooms.<\/p>\n

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Just brought this one home last weekend, a Proven Winner’s selection, Didelta carnosa \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDawn.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 The radioactive chrome yellow daisies must be endured for a brief time, when things will hopefully quiet down to just some fine-looking succulent, silvery leaves and chartreuse bracts. Bought on a whim but looks promising. <\/p>\n

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Begonia luxurians has been blooming the past few months, though I never think to grab a photo for Bloom Day.<\/p>\n

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Always a few mystery plants in bloom, like this unnamed, green-flowered begonia just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.<\/p>\n

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Mystery senecio<\/p>\n

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Scrophularia calliantha from Annie’s Annuals & Perennials<\/a> planted in fall started blooming late February. A big, boragey, salvia-esque plant with exacting water needs even in a large container. <\/p>\n

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The annual toadflax, Linaria reticulata, a good choice for a zone 10 winter, seen here with the spears of Senecio anteuphorbium.<\/p>\n

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Angelica pachycarpa.<\/p>\n

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Lots of salvias in bloom now, including ‘Wendy’s Wish.’<\/p>\n

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The ‘Drakensberg Carmine’ gerberas have been prodigious bloomers over the winter.<\/p>\n

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March will probably see the last of the coronilla blooms.<\/p>\n

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Thanks as always to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting Bloom Day<\/a> on the 15th of every month.<\/p>\n

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