{"id":30713,"date":"2012-06-16T13:19:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=30713"},"modified":"2015-07-30T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T15:11:20","slug":"bloom-day-june-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=30713","title":{"rendered":"Bloom Day June 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got in too late yesterday for photos for a Bloom Day post, so made a head start last night on checking out the blogs linked on Carol’s May Dreams Gardens<\/a> host site for Bloom Day.
\nI think that’s the best “issue” on June gardens I’ve seen in a long time.<\/p>\n

Summer-blooming bulbs like crocosmia and eucomis stirring here in June.<\/p>\n

Crocosmia and Teucrium hircanicum<\/p>\n

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Eucomis almost buried under a daisy with fennel-like leaves, Argyranthemum haouarytheum.<\/p>\n

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As with June Bloom Days past, white valerian seeding around at the edges. The seasons-spanning kangaroo paws, succulents and grasses.
\nI’ve been nibbling away at the bricks under the pergola, whose once-seamless perimeter is now as gap-toothed as a hockey player’s smile.
\n(how ’bout those Stanley Cup-winning LA Kings?!<\/small>)<\/p>\n

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Latest brick removal was instigated by finding a source for Eryngium pandanifolium, the Giant Sea Holly.
\nI sowed seed last fall of a ‘Physic Purple’ variety but didn’t get any germination, and then it popped up a month ago on Plant Delights online offerings.
\nSometimes you’ve just got to scratch that plant itch. Of course I had to squeeze some Ruby Grass in while the eryngo thickens up.<\/p>\n

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More brick removal yesterday to try out Pennisetum ‘Sky Rocket,’ a sterile hybrid from the same batch as ‘Fireworks.’
\nI’ve been on a destructive tear lately and have started hammering off the slippery tiles in the side patio too.<\/p>\n

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Onward and upward. This summer I’m training Passiflora sanguinolenta up the pergola. A rarity among passifloras, this one has proven to be a dainty, nonaggressive climber.
\nSidling up to Aloe distans at ground level.<\/p>\n

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Not this Bloom Day but certainly by the next, I’ll finally get to see Lobelia tupa blooming in my garden. I think the trick was thinning out plants possibly crowding it.
\n(Gosh, there’s a surprise, overcrowding in my<\/em> garden?)<\/p>\n

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First spikes appearing on Persicaria amplexicaulis. Salvia canariensis is more colored bracts than blooms now.<\/p>\n

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Verbena bonariensis ‘Lollipop’ in the iron tank. Eryngium tripartitum barely visible blooming here too.<\/p>\n

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One lone drumstick allium amidst eyebrow grass, Bouteloua gracilis.
\nI think the 29 other Allium sphaerocephalum may have been swamped by the burgeoning Mint Bush, Prostranthera ovalifolia ‘Variegata’<\/p>\n

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And since this post has wandered into Foliage Followup’s<\/a> turf of the 16th of every month, hosted by Pam at Digging, I’ll close with a photo of a restio new to me.
\nCannonmois virgata,<\/a> identified by San Marcos Growers as more probably C. grandis.
\nSMG’s photo shows the beautiful culms. <\/p>\n

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I was considering this restio to replace the rose I removed from the patio room, whose tile is being demolished…wonder where I left my hammer and chisel?
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