{"id":103400,"date":"2023-10-24T16:39:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=103400"},"modified":"2023-10-24T16:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:39:18","slug":"clippings-10-24-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=103400","title":{"rendered":"clippings 10\/24\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mopping up the earlier report on blooms in October that was abridged due to technical issues… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Erysimum ‘Winter Orchid’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Erysimum ‘Winter Orchid’ at the base of Emilia javanica \u2018Irish Poet,\u2019 an annual that seems to get better as it gets colder and wetter — we’ll see how it likes the nighttime forecasts later in the week down into the 30sF
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Eryngium ravenelii planted May 2022 — not much to look at now but it did survive its first winter and flowered, so I’m thinking it has a chance to improve with age and size. Notable for being a wet-tolerant eryngo native to southern U.S. wetlands (aka Eryngium aquaticum var. ravenelii). Narrow leaves, currently about a foot in height<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eryngium yuccifolium over 3 feet in height, flawless in leaf and flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I moved Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ back near the fence to give Eryngium pandanifolium a full 360-degree zone of appreciation — and the possibility of more bloom stalks next summer. Achnatherum calamagrostis might be my favorite grass. Early blooming, when it earns its name Silver Spike Grass, the blooms gracefully age with the seasons, now in October fading to a rosy tan. Miscanthus ‘Yaku Jima’ spikes in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Is Salvia ‘Amante’ overall as good a plant as ‘Amistad’? Hard to say. Possibly not as floriferous. Having grown my fair share of purple and blue salvias, I do love the color break.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Solanum laxum (nee jasminoides) is everything I want in a vine — low-key, always fresh-appearing, self-cleaning, lightweight, blooming in unassuming trusses, quietly turning into an October garden star as others quit the stage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dahlia ‘AC Rosebud’ — I’ve given away the shorter, less floriferous dahlias, with ‘Camano Sitka’ also remaining. These two are robust, tall, incredibly prolific and might possibly benefit from pinching back next spring because who wants 8-foot dahlias anyway? I did bring home ‘Twyning’s After 8’ from Windcliff. (Hinkley warned me that, being a seedling, there was no telling its color. Well, it has bloomed and it’s spot on, looking like this<\/a>.) These three remaining dahlias will no doubt be knocked down by upcoming predicted frosts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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