{"id":1845,"date":"2004-07-11T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T21:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T21:55:54","slug":"bandwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/just-browsing\/bandwagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quiz from <a href=\"http:\/\/fortyfour.typepad.com\/bookishgardener\/2004\/07\/taste_test.html#more\">Bookish Gardener<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n1. Lilies: <strong>oriental<\/strong> or <strong>asiatic<\/strong>?<br \/>\nI love the heady scent of oriental lilies, but they don&#8217;t grow well here. I have to grow them in a planter and bring them indoors in the summer. I like LA hybrid asiatics, which so far have come back year after year.<br \/>\n2. No-till or <strong>till<\/strong>?<br \/>\nI like to dig in the dirt; but not with machines.<br \/>\n3. <strong>Bare hands<\/strong> or garden gloves?<br \/>\nTouch and texture are very important to me.<br \/>\n4. Garden tchotchkes, <strong>no<\/strong> or yes?<br \/>\n5. <strong>Clay<\/strong> or sand?<br \/>\nThis isn&#8217;t a preference; it&#8217;s just the way it is on the Blackland prairie.<br \/>\n6. <strong>Shrub<\/strong> roses or hybrid teas?<br \/>\nOf the list, this is my most marked preference. I&#8217;ve spent the last three years integrating shrub roses into the yard.<br \/>\n7. Hollyhocks: single or double?<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t grow them.<br \/>\n8. Foliage: gray or glaucous?<br \/>\nBoth.<br \/>\n9. Hemerocallis: flava or fulva?<br \/>\nNeither.<br \/>\n10. Impatiens: double or single?<br \/>\nNeither.<br \/>\n11. Calendula or tagetes?<br \/>\nBoth.<br \/>\n12. Arborvitae or juniper?<br \/>\nNeither.<br \/>\n13. Spaded edge or &#8220;<strong>edging<\/strong>&#8220;?<br \/>\nOur St. Augustine grass runs, so it&#8217;s hard to keep it neat by edging it. However, I like this look very much in other people&#8217;s gardens. In the English gardens I&#8217;ve visited, it&#8217;s very impressive looking.<br \/>\n14. Asters or mums?<br \/>\nNeither.<br \/>\n15. Reflecting pool or coursing waterfall?<br \/>\nBoth.<br \/>\n16. Morning glory blue or forget-me-not blue?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen a forget-me-not (I&#8217;d remember, wouldn&#8217;t I?) In Texas, the question would be bluebonnet blue or plumbago blue. And the answer would always be bluebonnet blue.<br \/>\n17. Lettuce: <strong>leaf<\/strong> or cos?<br \/>\n18. <strong>Hyacinth bean<\/strong> or red runner bean?<br \/>\nOnly by default; never grown the other.<br \/>\n19. Orange or pink?<br \/>\nred<br \/>\n20. Garden bed shapes: formal or informal?<br \/>\nI started out informal and that&#8217;s been a mess. So the garden design is becoming more formal as it progresses. I love Japanese gardens, but wouldn&#8217;t try to make one in Texas. However, I do try to apply some of the principals.<br \/>\n21. Garden bed planting schemes: informal or formal?<br \/>\nInformal. I believe in the underlying scheme has strong lines then its planting can be a bit loose and soft.<br \/>\n22. Hydrangeas: lace-cap or mophead?<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t grow them.<br \/>\n23. Spirea japonica: dried flowerheads standing over the winter or in bloom?<br \/>\nWhat dried flower heads? Do yours bloom to frost? Ours quit in March and frost isn&#8217;t until December, usually. If this question was about ornamental grass, I&#8217;d say, dried.<br \/>\n24. Japanese beetle drowning medium: kerosene or dishsoap solution?<br \/>\nWhatever beetles we have, it&#8217;s dishsoap for them. I&#8217;d never use kerosene in my garden.<br \/>\n25. Garden stroll time: dusk or dawn?<br \/>\nBoth. Just get out of the garden by 10AM and don&#8217;t go back in before 7PM down here in the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My tastes aren&#8217;t really this black or white. So I&#8217;ve had to annotate my responses. What I like and what I can do are very different things. Learning to work with the conditions you live in is the easiest way to successful gardening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5254,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}