{"id":2041,"date":"2005-10-14T14:12:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T19:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2017-07-17T19:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:04:36","slug":"week-41-108-1014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/weekly-comparison\/week-41-108-1014\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 41: 10\/8 – 10\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dateline: 2006<\/strong>
\nI return to Austin late Tuesday (10\/10) night behind a line of thunderstorms. DFW was a mess after 5 inches of rain and flooding and flights were delayed an hour at minimum. However, I managed to fly standby on an earlier flight into Austin and my baggage made it on the plane to my utter amazement. I was hoping that the rain had also made it to Austin and it had.<\/p>\n

By Friday (10\/13) the meadow was aflower with rainlilies. And a late flush of oxblood lilies surprised me. The Nerium oleander is blooming again. Bluebonnets. cilantro, and daisies are popping up everywhere.
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\nDateline: 2005<\/strong>
\nAfter a cold (50s!) and rainy ending to last week, Saturday and Sunday were two perfect days. The entire week was nice even though it warmed up to the high 80s. Every night has been cool and we’ve slept with just the fan on.<\/p>\n

The red spider lilies are in full bloom this week. I’ve had a pretty good showing this year.<\/p>\n

On Thursday (10\/13) the pink rainlilies bloomed and zillions of bluebonnets suddenly sprouted. The rain also brought out oxblood lilies on all the vacant lots in the neighborhood. I’m glad they don’t mind waiting an extra month for the rain. Seeing them growing untended really did make it feel as if fall has actually arrived.<\/p>\n

A few oxblood lilies are still blooming in my garden. This week, I’ve been busy dividing them. I’ve dug up three clumps so far which produced about 200 bulbs. I find it easiest to do so just after they flower fades and before too much green comes up. If I wait until the leaves die down in summer, then I risk splitting them with the spade when I try to dig them up. They aren’t at all fussy and don’t mind being moved at any time it seems. What they do mind, I’ve discovered, is growing under ivy. I had very few flowers from bulbs that have provided tons of flowers in the past–the reason, I let the English ivy get out of hand and grow into the beds. The ivy just sucks the ground dry.<\/p>\n

The roses are putting out new growth. The Tecoma stans has flowers again. And the ever-faithful plumbago is still blooming.<\/p>\n

Dateline: 2001<\/strong>
\nThursday October 11, 2001
\nAnother palindrome day: 10.11.01. The day begins with a lot of thunder and rain. The newly sanded paths stand up well and look very flat and nice. By evening, the skies clear and we the dragonflies are out en masse. We’ve had these days before, where the dragonflies are thick in our yard, scores of them! The weird thing is that I don’t see them in our neighbors yards. There are quite a few butterflies too.<\/p>\n

Dateline: 2000<\/strong>
\nThursday October 12, 2000
\nIt is a warmer: lows in the 60s, highs 81 and the first sunshine in a week. I stay home from work just to stay home. As a result of the rains last weekend rainlilies are blooming and bluebonnets are sprouting everywhere. I saw two Monarch butterflies yesterday and one today.<\/p>\n

Dateline: 1999<\/strong>
\nSunday October 11, 1999
\nAJM finishes cleaning out the rain gutters (a job I started last Friday). Still no rain–none since July 21, and none expected.<\/p>\n

Dateline: 1997<\/strong>
\nSunday October 12, 1997
\nIt has rained and rained and rained the entire week that Katie has been her from England. So much for our infamous Texas sun. However, it has been a light drizzly rain. Katie puts her coat on whenever we go out even though it’s quite warm. This causes me to ask Mum if they only have cold rain in England. She seems to find this question very amusing.<\/p>\n

Dateline: 1995<\/strong>
\nSunday October 8, 1995
\nFor days it has been clear with the highs in the mid-80s and the lows in the mid-50s. I wish we had this weather for months. Spent most of the gardening day weeding and turning a new plot near the cosmos (which are lovely in full bloom).<\/p>\n

Of course, I missed the September rains and now it is very dry. I’ve neglected watering, too, because of the coolness, which always misleads me into believing the plants are fine. Everything was drooping and I spent a lot of yesterday and today soaking plants. In watering the tomatoes, I noticed that they’ve been ravaged by worms. I picked off all that I could find and all the damaged fruit, which was most of it.<\/p>\n

The serranos look as green and healthy as ever, but they won’t set fruit.<\/p>\n

Friday October 13, 1995
\nThe weather is changing. Lately the morning sky has been so absolutely clear that you could see the sun rise. The last couple of days it’s been cloudier. For the first time in about ten days, there is a chance a rain in the forecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spider lily week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041"}],"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=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5293,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/5293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}