{"id":38173,"date":"2013-02-22T14:47:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T18:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=38173"},"modified":"2013-02-24T20:10:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T00:10:41","slug":"les-winter-walk-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=38173","title":{"rendered":"Les&#8217; Winter Walk-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><br \/>\nLes&#8217; rules (<a href=\"http:\/\/atidewatergardener.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/winter-walk-off-2013.html\">A Tidewater Gardener<\/a>).<br \/>\nLeave your home or workplace on foot.  Bicycles are OK.  Bring a camera along.  Depending where you live, the Winter Walk-off challenge may be a snowy trek requiring a team of huskies and a sled (does that comply with the rules, Les?) or a sunny stroll in the park.  I hope Les doesn&#8217;t mind multiple entries.  This is just a warm-up, a test run, kicking the Winter Walk-off tires, so to speak.   <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2013\/P1017377.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biking to my community garden yesterday, as always I pass this tidy bungalow.<br \/>\nThe house and garden looked as though it had primped and readied itself expressly for the the Winter Walk-off.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2013\/P1017431.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the base of the fence tumbles blue marguerite, Felicia amelloides, alternating with a coppery coprosma, shrubs from New Zealand also known as the Mirror Plant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2013\/P1017386.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple blocks away, hanging lanterns suspended from a California Pepper Tree, Schinus molle<br \/>\nThe yellow flowers belong to an aeonium sitting in a pot on the fence<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2013\/P1017428.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This beautiful parkway agave stranded in weeds looks like a variegated Agave weberi.<br \/>\n(vintage black Chevy in the distance, tail fins hidden by the palm)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2013\/P1017407.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the community garden, purple cauliflower in a neighbor&#8217;s plot<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2013\/P1017417.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and sweet peas, also not mine.  My sweet peas are just barely grabbing on to the bottom of the trellis.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2013\/P1017421-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>An abbreviated entry, but hopefully there&#8217;ll be time for a few more.  And then it will be spring.<br \/>\nI think this is actually Les&#8217; plan, to distract us until spring.  I&#8217;m all for that.   Thanks, Les!<br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les&#8217; rules (A Tidewater Gardener). Leave your home or workplace on foot. Bicycles are OK. Bring a camera along. 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