{"id":30268,"date":"2012-05-25T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=30268"},"modified":"2012-05-25T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T21:50:00","slug":"teucrium-hircanicum-paradise-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=30268","title":{"rendered":"Teucrium hircanicum &#8216;Paradise Delight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Summer-blooming spiky flowering plants under 3 feet.  In garden design parlance, the verticals.  We all need some, right?  Herbaceous varieties of salvias and veronicas include lots of contenders.  Although I&#8217;ve had some success with veronica, herbaceous salvias often melt away after a zone 10 winter.  In addition to trying out Lysimachia ephemerum (again) and some penstemons, this summer I&#8217;m filling the spike void with a teucrium hardy to zone 6, maybe even 5, Teucrium hircanicum &#8216;Paradise Delight.&#8217;  The Iranian Wood sage is shrubby in character, crinkly rugose leaves, red-violet spikes.  More drought tolerant than herbaceous spiky stuff and better suited to a summer-dryish garden, or so I&#8217;m hoping.  The pale green inflorescences started deepening to violet this week.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/may2012\/52512morn002-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/may2012\/52512morn009-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/may2012\/52512morn003.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nI can already see that it won&#8217;t have that upright, regimental discipline that is characteristic of the herbaceous salvias.  This teucrium wants to dip and twist.  Admitting to a mad crush on a plant its first summer in the garden is not at all sensible or prudent, so I&#8217;ll just say the Iranian Wood Sage is looking <em>very promising<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n<p>Mine are from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diggingdog.com\/pages2\/perennialtz.php\">Digging Dog Nursery<\/a> in Mendocino, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer-blooming spiky flowering plants under 3 feet. In garden design parlance, the verticals. We all need some, right? Herbaceous varieties of salvias and veronicas include lots of contenders. Although I&#8217;ve had some success with veronica, herbaceous salvias often melt away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=30268\">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":[551,842,36],"tags":[122,2062],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-7Sc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30268"}],"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=30268"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30295,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30268\/revisions\/30295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}