{"id":70703,"date":"2016-01-06T13:33:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=70703"},"modified":"2016-01-06T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:33:33","slug":"wednesday-clippings-1616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=70703","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday clippings 1\/6\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><center><br \/>\nOne storm down, five more or so to go.  For the first time in a long while, the air smells incredibly fresh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/january2016\/1-P1010263.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1010263.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>January is always the perfect time for the shocking pink blooms on Pelargonium echinatum to arrive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/january2016\/1-P1010288.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1010288.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/january2016\/1-P1010268.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1010268.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;Sundiascia&#8221; I planted in early December, found at Sunset Boulevard Nursery.  I expected it to immediately stop blooming, as most things planted out in December do.<br \/>\nDating myself now, but I remember in the 1980s traveling eight hours up the coast to <a href=\"http:\/\/westernhillsgarden.com\/\">Western Hills<\/a> to check out their new diascias, euphorbias, salvias, anything and everything.<br \/>\nAnd doing that at least twice a year.  And now diascia hybrids are sold everywhere in the bedding sections of nurseries.<br \/>\n(<strong>Speaking of Western Hills, they are beginning garden docent training January 28th. It is a six-week training on Thursdays, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.<br \/>\nCall (707) 872-5463 or email Stacie at stacie@westernhillsgarden.com to sign up<\/strong>.) <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/january2016\/1-P1010278.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1010278.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rainy day Agave &#8216;Blue Glow&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/january2016\/1-P1010287.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1010287.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/january2016\/1-P1010284.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1010284.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First blooms on Acacia podalyrifolia.  With the air sweetened by rain and now this fragrant acacia in bloom, the front garden is a little slice of heaven.<br \/>\nAfter it&#8217;s finished blooming, it will be cut back hard.  Lots of complaints about its encroachment on the driveway.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/january2016\/1-P1010270.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1010270.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melianthus &#8216;Purple Haze&#8217; enjoying a good soaking.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/january2016\/1-P1010275.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1010275.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linking up with <a href=\"https:\/\/flutterandhum.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/05\/wednesday-vignette-ice\/\">Flutter &#038; Hum&#8217;s<\/a> icy Wednesday vignette.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One storm down, five more or so to go. For the first time in a long while, the air smells incredibly fresh. January is always the perfect time for the shocking pink blooms on Pelargonium echinatum to arrive. 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