{"id":102564,"date":"2023-06-07T17:38:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=102564"},"modified":"2023-06-07T17:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:38:31","slug":"june-takes-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=102564","title":{"rendered":"June takes over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\"IMG_6706\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
February 2023 — June is such a startling transformation, a resilient, resurgent renewal — words fail!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

June is happening. Whatever garden plans you made, whatever winter took away, June is here, right now, and blots out everything else. The job now, as I see it, is admiring the incredible architecture of plants in all their phases, leaf, stem, bud and flower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"IMG_7099\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Broom-handle stem on Angelica stricta ‘Purpurea’ — actually, bigger than a broom handle and reaching over 5 feet. It’s been able to withstand Incredibly fierce afternoon winds. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7182\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Nepeta and hesperis have made a huge difference this year, providing an enveloping color wash and early flowers for the pollinators that adds a dynamism I was missing last year. The nepeta is planted in the second-tier border right up against the retaining railroad tie, where it has room to billow but not smother neighboring plants. The hesperis is biennial and will reseed, and there are a few young plants established for next year. It’s a simple field of grasses and flowers that I can easily manage. The horticultural heavyweights are conspicuously absent — I can admire the roses and peonies, the Japanese maples, rhodies and lilacs around town.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7161\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Parahebe perfoliata aka Veronica perfoliata, Digger’s Speedwell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7155\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Oregon Sunshine, Hebe ‘Karo Golden Esk,’ Yucca linearifolia, Eryngium pandanifolium arching over it all<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7150\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Yucca rostrata with sisyrinchium, erinus and sedum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7115\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Eryngium variifolium getting busy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7178\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Ditto Eryngium paniculatum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7093\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Sicilian honey garlic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7087\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Festuca arundinacea ‘Glow Sticks’ living up to its name<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7165\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
The rusty foxglove, Digitalis ferruginea in spike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7138\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
lush and lovely Gillenia trifoliata<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7154\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
the ground is nearly covered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7142\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
green leafiness with the white midrib is Euphorbia stygiana, to its left Clematis stans x heracleifolia, backed by Persicaria polymorpha with white plumes. Intense honey scent from this euphorbia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7109\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Trying another asphodel, a gift from Ketzel\/the Wonder Garden in Manzanita where they likewise haven’t flourished so far. ‘Italian Gold’ is either dead or taking summer off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7103\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Nepeta ‘Blue Dragon’ looks like a chunky agastache. A yunnanensis hybrid from Terra Nova<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7179\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Kniphofia pauciflora reminds me of a miniature K. thomsonii. The little black stakes are to flag the presence of small seedlings nearby like Verbascum roripifolium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7183\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Kniphofia thomsonii var. snowdenii<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7175\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Primula bulleyana in a stock tank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7186\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Euphorbia ‘Silver Swan’ flowers in much looser heads than E. characias, a very different effect that I like quite a bit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"IMG_7080\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
Just beginning to flower are the dark-leaved ‘Oeschberg’ dianthus started last summer from seed. A biennial, right? Not so fast — they often can live up to three years. And the darkest flowers and leaves can be selected by taking soft cuttings of nonflowering shoots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June is happening. Whatever garden plans you made, whatever winter took away, June is here, right now, and blots out everything else. The job now, as I see it, is admiring the incredible architecture of plants in all their phases, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[550,5119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-oregon-garden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-qGg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102564"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102622,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102564\/revisions\/102622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}