{"id":97620,"date":"2021-02-03T12:17:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=97620"},"modified":"2021-04-13T19:11:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T23:11:39","slug":"february-scrapbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=97620","title":{"rendered":"February scrapbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tracing the trajectory of enthusiasms on the blog since 2010, one month at a time…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2\/26\/10 — a wildflower meadow<\/a> was a fleeting, transitional feature of a local medical center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pinellia tripartita<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

February 25, 2011, this weird aroid<\/a> had my attention. It has since disappeared from the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2012<\/a> was one of the years I planned for potted tulips. Here in zone 10 tulips require chilling, so it’s not a last-minute kind of deal. And the vegetable crisper gets real crowded for 8 weeks or so. Nice cameo by little Evie! I’m fairly sure she’s standing on a potted Cussonia gamtoosensis<\/a>, one of my favorites cussonias, which grew to 6 feet in the garden then toppled. Very shallow rooted! Much sorrow and regret. This week I’ve just found a source locally at Desert Creations<\/a>! If all goes well, I should have it by the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Little Evie and the cussonia February 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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February 28, 2013<\/a>, I documented a conversation about the number of bees on Euphorbia rigida. Lovely to see our corgi Ein and Joseph aka Joe B. Tiger! Sedum nussbaumerianum is another succulent I haven’t grown in a while. And we are currently on the trail of another corgi, but it’s slightly complicated so no date of arrival yet…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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February 2013<\/a>. This scrapbook idea is helping me notice planting patterns. Every fall\/winter I rediscover the annual linarias like it’s the first time ever. Obviously, it’s been a standby winter annual for years…that never reseeds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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February 2013; I want to smell Michelia doltsopa<\/a> again. (Anyone reading Ken Druse’s The Scentual Garden<\/a>?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was a lively and inviting family garden to visit back in February 2013<\/a>, and Sadie was such a gracious host!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Euphorbia lambii<\/a> from February 2013 which started sporting weird fasciations. But now I miss this plant! Still have the indestructible Homecrest chairs though…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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February 2014 included a visit to the Moorten Botanical Garden<\/a> in Palm Springs, Calif. during Modernism Week<\/a>, which is now an online experience February 1st through the 28th, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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February 2015 I visited Rancho Los Alamitos<\/a> with Shirley Watts<\/a> — so much fun touring this historic rancho with her. I believe her brother Harvey attended the tour as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also in February 2015 Banksia ericifolia<\/a> briefly graced the garden. Current banksias in the garden are Banksia caleyi and Banksia repens, both very young. Say no more…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In February 2015 I was growing gerberas with Elymus ‘Canyon Prince<\/a>.’ There are still gerberas in the garden but this beautiful grass is not suited for a small collector’s garden. I planted this elymus in the hellstrip of our neighborhood park, where it’s survived on just rainfall to the amazement of the neighborhood. I believe that’s an isoplexis<\/a> leaning in on the right, which was an exciting plant in its own right for frost-free gardens before the digiplexis phenomenon eclipsed it. All of the “plexis,” species and crosses, have been short-lived in my garden — which is not necessarily a bad thing to my way of thinking but it might be frustrating for some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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February 2016<\/a> I had promising cushions of santolina, and then the cypresses grew and grew and this end of the garden became too shady. I actually enjoy that pungent, acrid scent when clipping and shaping it into orbs. For a similar smallish cushion effect, I’m currently growing Westringia ‘Grey Box.’<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In February 2017 Mitch and I visited Jeremy Glatstein and family’s garden<\/a> (#bixbybotanicals), which was covered in the Los Angeles Times in 2020 for Dustin Gimbel’s design work<\/a> on their back garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In February 2018 I documented the discovery of Euphorbia lignosa<\/a> (or maybe it’s Euphorbia stenoclada?) in a local parkway. I still have the cutting the owner gave me, which is growing into a handsome plant, and the OG mother plant is still flourishing in the parkway. Nice bit of continuity for both plants!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In February 2019 I was concerned about decluttering the garden<\/a> (ha!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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February 2020<\/a>, before the fence was rebuilt and the cypresses removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onward with February 2021!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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