{"id":33468,"date":"2012-09-15T19:03:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T23:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=33468"},"modified":"2012-09-15T19:03:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T23:03:26","slug":"bloom-day-september-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=33468","title":{"rendered":"Bloom Day September 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>A stupefyingly hot Bloom Day here in Los Angeles.  June and July were lovely, August and September the devil&#8217;s smithy.  This heat wave is having the same effect on the streets as martial law, rendering them eerily quiet and empty.  The garden is pretty quiet too.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2012\/P1011729.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\nAmazingly, some things have the backbone to bloom in this heat.  Not me.  But the summer-dormant, winter-blooming Pelargonium echinatum opened its first blooms yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2012\/P1011745-001.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\nAnd Russellia equisetiformis has leapt into bloom, even with having to face down day after day of searing afternoon sun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2012\/P1011699.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\nPlant Delights described this salvia as making a nondescript, almost grass-like contribution all summer before blooming in fall, which sounded ideal, and this first year that assessment has been borne out.  Doesn&#8217;t bulk up huge during summer but maintains a slim, barely noticeable presence until it becomes studded in blue flowers in fall.  Ultimate size 3-4&#8242; x 15-18.&#8221;  Salvia reptans West Texas Form.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2012\/P1011486.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\nPassion vine Passiflora sanguinolenta is sailing through the high temps, reliably unfurling its little pink parasols.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/august2012\/P1011262.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\nDefinitely cactus weather.  Aporocactus, unfazed by the heat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2012\/IMG_0068-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\nPalo verde trees, agaves and grasses scoffing at the heat at a Starbucks in downtown Los Angeles yesterday.<br \/>\nThese last two photos taken with my iPhone. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2012\/IMG_0067-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\nCor-Ten steel fountain, agaves and hesperaloe.  Walking around downtown yesterday, I convinced myself that until I devise a fountain or water garden, it might be helpful in the interim to just print verbs for the movement of water on my east fence, which was just restained an even darker indigo blue.  Words like <em>brim, pour, spill, trickle, flow, rush, cascade, plunge, drip, splash, pool, eddy<\/em>&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Carol, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maydreamsgardens.com\/2012\/09\/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-september-2012.html\">May Dreams Gardens<\/a>) for this count-your-blessings monthly ritual, along with all the Bloom Day contributors.<br \/>\n<\/big><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stupefyingly hot Bloom Day here in Los Angeles. June and July were lovely, August and September the devil&#8217;s smithy. 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