{"id":74893,"date":"2016-09-26T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=74893"},"modified":"2017-07-12T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T21:00:41","slug":"occasional-daily-weather-report-hot-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=74893","title":{"rendered":"Occasional Daily Weather Report; hot stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>I&#8217;ve got my seed packets of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highcountrygardens.com\/wildflower-seeds\/individual-species\/linum-grandiflorum-rubrum-seeds\">scarlet fla<\/a>x in hand, ready to sow for spring bloom, some interesting cool season cabbages and greens on order, and I can&#8217;t stop thinking about hot soup.  I&#8217;m ready.  And like waiting for the headliner at a show, I&#8217;m getting a little restless when the opening act (summer) refuses to leave the stage.  I&#8217;m ready to hand the garden over to winter (and complain about how little rainfall we&#8217;re getting.)  But heatwaves do bring undeniable benefits.  There was such a glorious hush over the neighborhood yesterday, chased indoors by heat and televised sports.  Today is supposed to top 100.  Yesterday was high 90s, a throwback to those lackadaisical summer days when I pile a bunch of reading in the coolest spot outdoors I can find.  But who am I kidding, September is always hot in Los Angeles and it&#8217;s foolish to expect anything else.  I&#8217;ve always been out of meteorological sync with this season.  As a kid it felt bizarrely, infuriatingly arbitrary to trudge back to hot, stuffy classrooms instead of heading again for the beach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2016\/1-P1013462.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1013462.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I may have prematurely moved touchy Agave gypsophila &#8216;Ivory Curls&#8217; into a full sun position for fall\/winter. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2016\/1-P1013401.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1013401.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s just outgrown the leaf burn from a previous bout of sunstroke.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2016\/1-P1013277.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1013277.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry if I sound a little testy.  Hot and dry in autumn is a signal to the termites to wing it, an event that always sets our teeth on edge as they flap against our little wooden bungalow.  But ain&#8217;t life grand?  Autumn light, insects that eat houses, grasses that catch the wind like schools of fish work the currents &#8212; I tell you, it&#8217;s simply too wonderful.  Have a great week.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got my seed packets of scarlet flax in hand, ready to sow for spring bloom, some interesting cool season cabbages and greens on order, and I can&#8217;t stop thinking about hot soup. I&#8217;m ready. 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