{"id":108841,"date":"2026-04-14T17:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=108841"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:45:04","slug":"back-in-the-oregon-coast-garden-spring-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=108841","title":{"rendered":"back in the Oregon Coast garden spring 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2s7yDbX\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55208236175_1a3419a5ce_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4666\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">growing in a stock tank situated slightly under the patio overhang, keeping it somewhat drier than the main garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s raining.  There&#8217;s tons to do.  Five minutes home and we&#8217;re already chopping up the neighbor&#8217;s downed tree limb and beginning cleanup.  Absent since November, there&#8217;s  that burning question immediately upon arrival in spring:  How did the garden fare over winter?  A singular event answered that question in a kind of visual shorthand. Not only did the beschorneria  (aka False Agave) keep all its leaves  relatively presentable over the winter, it greeted me with something wholly unexpected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2s7yJov\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55208253665_19e690dbc3_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4664\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">labeled Beschorneria septentrionalis.  Beschornerias are generally considered for USDA zone 8 and warmer, to zone 7 with protection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether the north or south garden, beschornerias just do not easily jump into bloom for me.  Off to a good start!  More soon, AGO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s raining. There&#8217;s tons to do. Five minutes home and we&#8217;re already chopping up the neighbor&#8217;s downed tree limb and beginning cleanup. Absent since November, there&#8217;s that burning question immediately upon arrival in spring: How did the garden fare over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=108841\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[28,5119,898,27],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-sjv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108841"}],"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=108841"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108860,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108841\/revisions\/108860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}