{"id":103780,"date":"2024-03-06T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=103780"},"modified":"2024-03-06T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:29:59","slug":"march-mixes-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=103780","title":{"rendered":"March mixes it up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Morina longifolia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The month of March, fittingly named for the god of war, here at the coast is a pitched battle between winter and spring. Winter battles for supremacy lobbing hail, snow, and night-time freezing temperatures, but it’s a dead-ender’s ploy. Spring confidently retaliates with brilliant blue skies and blinding sunshine. And then, unless it rains, which it hasn’t the past few days, we plummet into the 20sF again overnight. It’s a dizzying mix, a month that alternately snarls and beguiles. The brief appearance of snow came not in softly parachuting flakes rimmed in poetic sparkle, but in goofy wet blobs that melted on impact, leaving no trace. But unlike rain or hail, snow, even this wet snow, falls so soundlessly that it creates a different kind of thrill as it makes its descent in charged silence. The hail dumps precipitously in noisy buckets, and this is what’s piling up in roadside drifts, hail not snow. Billie particularly despises hail, which always provokes barking jags. But typical of her species, she can’t help attempting to catch and eat falling snow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Morina longifolia in flower last July<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some more plant portraits this morning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arctostaphylos ‘Sunset’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Euphorbia x martinii<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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the cardoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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house leeks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some blog housekeeping that might provide some diverting reading in March. A hack at one point knocked out content mid-posts, and occasionally I stumble on the problems and restore what I can. Restored posts include Western Hills<\/a>, Worldwide Exotics Nursery<\/a> and San Marcos Celebrates 40 Years<\/a>, links provided. Those posts and other longish ones can be found at the header under “Long Form<\/a>.” Now to get Billie out for a walk while blue skies and sunshine are winning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The month of March, fittingly named for the god of war, here at the coast is a pitched battle between winter and spring. Winter battles for supremacy lobbing hail, snow, and night-time freezing temperatures, but it’s a dead-ender’s ploy. Spring … 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4461,2807,5119],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-qZS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103780"}],"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=103780"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103808,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103780\/revisions\/103808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}