{"id":101842,"date":"2022-09-03T17:43:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T21:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=101842"},"modified":"2022-09-03T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T21:43:59","slug":"glistening-september-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=101842","title":{"rendered":"glistening September views"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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glistening Renga lilies, Arthropodium cirratum, a giftt from Kris\/Late To The Garden Party<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This morning’s mist was heavy enough that the downspouts gurgled. The garden embraced the moisture with its leaves and petals, in a heart-melting effect that can best be described in one word: glistening<\/em>. A full rainy day is predicted for sometime mid-September. Before it all smashes down in a rainy windstorm, I took some photos this morning from every corner of the garden to document its first summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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view from the house, standing at the back steps. Neighbor’s hedge is laurel, with a spangling of bindweed. If you stand still long enough, I’ve no doubt bindweed will start creeping around your ankles. It is the town scourge, an enemy sneakily waving white trumpet flowers — show no mercy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This rich, water-retentive soil and cool coastal climate (zone 8b) has limitations that would be deal-breakers for many, but it is very kind to herbaceous perennials — we’ll see how many survive the long, rainy winter to return next year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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still on the steps, looking straight ahead. If you’d like an ID on a plant, leave a comment. The Anisodontea ‘Strybing Beauty’ in the left stock tank is roof-high and marginally hardy in zone 8b. I’ve been tip-pruning it all summer. I’m in the process of setting up a makeshift cold frame and may grab some cuttings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking east along the overhang. There’s a 2-3 foot perimeter dog path along the fence where Billie is in the photo. I doubt I’lll plant anything closer to the fence because the neighbor’s bindweed would love to get a root-hold and high visibility is key. Keeping a mulched moat is the best defense. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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another view looking east (a deceptive one because the camera flipped the perspective) showing the basic layout and the three stock tanks close to the overhang. Unless I have a radical change of mind, there will be no hiding neighboring houses, no mitigating the stark fence boundary, just a simple space to grow plants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking west along the overhang to the garage. This area with the melianthus was the last to be planted. The diascia in that stock tank has been in bloom since April, no lie — I should get cuttings of that as well (‘My Darling Tangerine’). Three planted in the ground are in bloom as well, but nothing like the performance in the stock tank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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looking southwest at corner garden shed. Paint is needed, outdoor lights replaced, but the garden comes first, right?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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view from the corner garden shed back at the house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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looking west at the garage across the main planted areas — gaura, agastache, penstemon, Aster ‘The Prince,’ succisella, Deschampsia ‘Goldtau’ — like I said, for more IDs, leave me a comment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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same view but grabbing more of the planting closer to the back fence. I walked along the landscape timbers that separate the two large planting areas all winter to plant — not possible now. Along with retaining the slightly elevated back berm, the timber acts as a brake to Salvia uliginosa and other large perennials, which have plenty of elbow room to move without squashing other plants <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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standing at the back fence looking at the house. Umbel is Selinum wallichianum. Dahlia is ‘Camano Sitka,’ incredibly tall and vigorous so I hate to quibble that the flowers are a tad too big<\/em>…Distant yellow flowers are Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen,’ positively hedge-like<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Japanese sunflower towers over the southeast corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I think that covers the garden from almost every angle, so I’ll finish with some close-ups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ — I think it’s safe to say, for instant gratification, this is a great first-year garden plant for coastal Oregon. Very late-blooming but good leaves all summer. May eventually replace it with something less vigorous…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This glistening Yucca linearifolia died in my zone 10b garden, was resuscitated and rerooted and now seems to be flourishing — so relieved!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dahlia ‘AC Rosebud’ — Marty says he hates this dahlia but loves ‘Camano Sitka.’ Personal taste is endlessly interesting…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Helianthus argophyllus (Texas native annual known as the Japanese Sunflower) is every bit as cool as its reputation. Hated my zone 10b garden — loves rich, moist soil. Needs staking. All dahlias were staked too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heliopsis ‘Bleeding Hearts’ was found local and looks like an instant classic. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It blends in really well, leaves and flowers,
Southeast corner with the Japanese sunflower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Scrophularia auriculata ‘Variegata’ (or S. aquatica ‘Variegata’) has been so good all summer, steadily increasing in girth. Hummingbirds come to its tiny flowers before the salvias!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Big surprise to have Clematis stans x heracleifolia bloom its first summer. Found at Hortlandia in April — yes, I admit I’m weird when it comes to clems in not craving the big-flowered vines. C. heracleifolia also performed decently in my zone 10b garden, back in the days when it was much wetter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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glistening Rhodocoma capensis will need thinning and careful pruning as it grows into its towering shagginess. The Plectranthus argentatus in the stock tank is another plant I’d hate to be without, slightly marginal here. The slider stays open til nearly bedtime — last night a large moth flew in, giving Billie a startle, then the chase was on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Brachyglottis monroi, a smaller version of B. greyi — the overhang extends slightly over some of the rock plantings which theoretically should provide more dryness in winter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sonchus palmensis (uncertain to survive this winter), Crambe maritima, Cassinia x ozothamnus, couple Aloe cooperi squeezed in. Ask for any further IDs. And on the far left, just added last week, nonblooming Calluna vulgaris ‘Skyline Barcelona.’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’ll close this out with Billie surveying her world and a potful of sempervivums and this weird mashup of orostachys and sedum called ‘Sedoro’ — so many plants! Let me know if there’s a favorite plant of yours that I’ve missed and must absolutely grow. And please take care if you’re caught in the abysmal West Coast heatwave. May fall weather be kind to all of us! More soon, AGO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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