{"id":28246,"date":"2012-04-16T23:16:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T03:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=28246"},"modified":"2012-04-16T23:29:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T03:29:01","slug":"foliage-followup-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=28246","title":{"rendered":"Foliage Followup April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Grasses and agaves, yes, of course, solidity and movement, so why not grasses and aloes?<br \/>\nA youngish Aloe marlothii and the evergreen cold blue steel blades of Blue Oat Grass, Helicotrichon sempervirens.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/416eve009-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nI can&#8217;t imagine keeping a plant in the garden with really awful leaves.  Even so, participating in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penick.net\/digging\/?p=15800\">Pam&#8217;s Foliage Followup<\/a> to Bloom Day is always a puzzle as to what to include without getting too repetitive.  I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve ever included this odd, neoclassical scene in the very back of the garden.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/414morn020-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\nThe salvaged urn was a gift from friends moving to Eugene, Oregon, years ago and leans against the back wall propped up on a base of large rocks.  It was nearly swallowed up entirely this winter by a shroud of creeping fig, Ficus repens.  The fig covers the back wall, southern boundary, essentially rendering it a 10-foot hedge, home to possums, lizards, and all manner of secretive creatures.  It needs clipping twice a year, now overdue for its spring clip. Plectranthus argentatus manages to survive in the urn which has no drainage holes and is therefore seldom watered.  Labrador violets, asparagus fern, and Corsican hellebores seed into the base of the wall too.  Very Last Days of Pompeii.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/414morn023-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/414morn012-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>x Fatshedera lizei, rinsed clean from the rain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/414morn050-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pathway lined with succulents, echeverias and aeoniums, fresh growth of eucomis in the background.<br \/>\nDark green, thyme-like mat grower is Frankenia thymifolia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/414morn051-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grasses and agaves, yes, of course, solidity and movement, so why not grasses and aloes? A youngish Aloe marlothii and the evergreen cold blue steel blades of Blue Oat Grass, Helicotrichon sempervirens. 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