{"id":52674,"date":"2014-03-01T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=52674"},"modified":"2014-03-03T00:10:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:10:14","slug":"reprising-a-visit-to-the-huntington-desert-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=52674","title":{"rendered":"reprising a visit to the Huntington Desert Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>The recent storm surprisingly coaxed a bloom from my 6-inch Euphorbia atropurpurea, whose acquaintance I first made at the Huntington in 2011.  That visit prompted a frustrating summer of scouring plant sales and nurseries for this rare, ruddy-bracted Canary Islander, until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anniesannuals.com\/plt_lst\/lists\/search\/lst.srch.asp?prodid=1970&#038;srch_term=Euphorbia%20atropurpurea\">Annie&#8217;s Annuals &#038; Perennials<\/a> put me out of my misery by offering it at her nursery just last year.  She&#8217;s still the only source that I can name at the moment.  And although the euphorbia is not currently available, it&#8217;s offered intermittently.  So it does pay to keep an eye on availability which updates frequently.  My image hosting site isn&#8217;t cooperating this morning, which is just as well, because now I have to rely on <a href=\"http:\/\/mbmaher.com\/\">MB Maher&#8217;s<\/a> images of the original object of my affection from May 2011.  I couldn&#8217;t resist adding a few other photos from that visit too.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\nFirst, Euphorbia atropurpurea. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/mitchHBGMay2011\/_MG_9864.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wine-colored bracts are such a surprising twist on the typical chartreuse, which are fabulous enough in their own right.<br \/>\nAfter all, it&#8217;s those blowsy chartreuse mopheads, like a hydrangea for dry soil and full sun, that first turn an ordinary, respectable person into a helpless euphorbophile.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/mitchHBGMay2011\/_MG_9865.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be a while before mine grows into a sight like this, but at least it blooms at a young age.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/mitchHBGMay2011\/_MG_9887.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other scenes from the Huntington in May.  Dyckia, golden barrel cactus, with palo verdes in bloom. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/mitchHBGMay2011\/_MG_9900.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dyckias in bloom<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/mitchHBGMay2011\/_MG_9841.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nolina interrata <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/mitchHBGMay2011\/_MG_9889.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shimmering golden warmth. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/mitchHBGMay2011\/_MG_9894.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quite the contrast to a grey, rainy weekend, another rarity I&#8217;m thoroughly enjoying today.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent storm surprisingly coaxed a bloom from my 6-inch Euphorbia atropurpurea, whose acquaintance I first made at the Huntington in 2011. That visit prompted a frustrating summer of scouring plant sales and nurseries for this rare, ruddy-bracted Canary Islander, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=52674\">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":[112,30,842,36,27],"tags":[1485,3376,1028,1132,1126,344,357,1127],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-dHA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52674"}],"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=52674"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52749,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52674\/revisions\/52749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}