{"id":46976,"date":"2013-09-15T23:10:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T03:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=46976"},"modified":"2013-09-15T23:10:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T03:10:31","slug":"bloom-day-september-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=46976","title":{"rendered":"Bloom Day September 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

After an interminably hot August, I couldn’t wait to start some fall planting as soon as it cooled down a bit, which means there aren’t exactly buckets of blooms to share.
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There was a whisper campaign afoot that a local nursery had Leucadendron ‘Ebony’ relatively cheap, so I grabbed one and redesigned a (relatively) large chunk of the back garden around it.<\/p>\n

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Behind the lime-green pelargonium grew a big swath of Persicaria amplexicaulis, now home to the leucadendron. A couple Gomphrena ‘Fireworks’ were included while the shrub makes size.<\/p>\n

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Little Pelargonium crispum ‘Variegatum’ has held onto its looks all summer, a nice small-scale shrub.<\/p>\n

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The succulent in the foreground is Echeveria ‘Opal Moon,’ which is maturing into a surprisingly effective landscape succulent.<\/p>\n

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As far as new flowers, the only other big news comes from Japanese anemones, seen here with macleaya and Xanthosoma ‘Lime Zinger.’ The first time I’ve ever grown the fall-blooming anemones. True story.<\/p>\n

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In the border just outside the office, behind the ‘Zwartkop’ aeonium, gomphrenas, gaillardias, and castor bean plants emerged from the heat of August unscathed.<\/p>\n

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Gomphrena ‘Strawberry Fields’ and an unidentified furcraea.<\/p>\n

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Orange gomphrena and gaillardia<\/p>\n

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Ricinus communis ‘New Zealand Purple’<\/p>\n

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Pennisetum ‘Sky Rocket,’ russelia, and a young, potted Yucca rostrata. Agave ‘Dragon Toes’ was planted in the ground this year.<\/p>\n

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Salvia chiapensis, still one of the all-time champion salvias in my garden, though I’m hearing great things about the newcomer, blue-flowered Salvia ‘Amistad.’<\/p>\n

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Agastache ‘Black Adder’ is off to a good start this summer. I think its size should help see it through until spring. Something about my winter clay eats agastaches, even in low rainfall winters.<\/p>\n

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This silvery little daisy looks promising, Lessingia filaginifolia, in a pot with Pelargonium ‘Crocodile’<\/p>\n

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Solanum pyracanthum<\/p>\n

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Thanks as always to Carol for hosting the monthly Bloom Day<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

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