{"id":95421,"date":"2020-06-15T16:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T20:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=95421"},"modified":"2020-06-15T16:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T20:39:50","slug":"bloom-day-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=95421","title":{"rendered":"bloom day June 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Foreground yellow daisy is Anthemis ‘Susannah Mitchell’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Typical of my small zone 10 Southern California garden, the month of June is as much subtractive as additive. Gone are the winter-growing annuals like poppies, nicotiana, and umbellifer Orlaya grandiflora, and as the hot dry summer bears down, the outlines of succulents like agaves and aloes once again come to the fore. The kangaroo paws are still prominent verticals, though the reds can start looking a little burnt out and scruffy. Annual coreopsis and cosmos, in pots and the garden, can handle the heat to come, and they’re just about the size of summer daisy a small overplanted garden can handle (no to dahlias, rudbeckias, etc). A 20-degree jump from a short, intense heatwave seared stripes into the cuticle on a couple established agaves, but we’re back into the very tolerable high 70s\/low 80s again, at least for this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nicotianas were pulled to give spears of summer-blooming Aloe elgonica some room to shine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The yellow kangaroo paws hold their color much better than the dark reds (‘Harmony’)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A tall flavidus hybrid with samphire, Crithmum maritimum, lower left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Annual coreopsis ‘Tiger Stripes’ handled the heat wave fine, but a couple leaves on Agave lophantha ‘Quadricolor’ got a bit toasty <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eryngium ‘Blue Glitter’ — with their small basal footprint, the eryngos fit in nicely amongst succulents like Yucca ‘Blue Boy’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Arctotis ‘Ruby Creeper’ stays tight and low<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Miscanthus ‘Silver Sceptre’ really kicked into gear after the heat wave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agapanthus ‘Indigo Frost’ planted last year surrounded by Stipa ichu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Also with Sesleria ‘Campo Azul’ — not many flowers from the sesleria in half day sun but fat creamy brushes in full sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I moved Sinningia ‘Invasion Force’ just after the heat wave. A strong-growing tuberous gesneriad that managed to throw multiple blooms in very dry soil in half-day sun, I had to see what it could do in more favorable conditions. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Helenium puberulum has been lightly blooming since planting last fall, but those stunning leaves are of course from eucomis and are a total cheat — one of two gallons of ‘Sparkling Burgundy’ I dropped into the garden in full sun just before the heat wave. So far I haven’t had success with eucomis in the ground, and I’ve probably grown them in too much shade and\/or kept them too dry. These gallons were in a nursery’s remaindered aisle, literally bursting through the pots with multiple bulbs, and since one bulb can go for $20 it was an incredible deal. I think I’ll keep them in pots, maybe divide the two gallons into four gallons in fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Passiflora vitifolia ‘Scarlet Flame’ had dozens of blooms open yesterday, only buds today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Miscanthus nepalensis has been slow but steadily improves every year. The grass blades so far make a thin, low clump, with the arching blooms similar to Stipa gigantea — but silky, not oatlike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cypella herbertii’s intricate blooms come steadily, each lasting just a day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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glaucium is starting to reseed a bit at the periphery near hardscape, never mid-border<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not just bred for the florists anymore, this orange gerbera is from the ‘Garvinea’ series intended for gardens and containers, planted in the last few weeks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pelargonium ‘Vancouver Centennial’ was thrown in with the pot of vines Solanum wendlandii and the coyote gourd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spadix-type flower of Piper auritum makes a contrapuntal rhythm across the wavy leaves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

May Dreams Gardens<\/a> collects the bloom day reports the 15th of every month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Typical of my small zone 10 Southern California garden, the month of June is as much subtractive as additive. Gone are the winter-growing annuals like poppies, nicotiana, and umbellifer Orlaya grandiflora, and as the hot dry summer bears down, the … Continue reading →<\/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":[28,63,898,27],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-oP3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95421"}],"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=95421"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95578,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95421\/revisions\/95578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}