{"id":2156,"date":"2006-09-01T21:48:12","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T02:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2017-07-18T11:26:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T16:26:52","slug":"its-official-its-fall-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/weather\/its-official-its-fall-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official&#8211;It&#8217;s Fall in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as gardeners who I read about in books anxiously look for spring in the first buds of crocuses pushing through the snow, we Austin gardeners look for the first sign of fall in the buds of the oxblood lily (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plants\/rhodophiala.html\">Rhodophiala bifida<\/a><\/i>). Last Sunday (8\/27) I noticed some buds in a bed I was watering and thought, &#8220;Summer can&#8217;t last much longer now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then Tuesday morning (8\/29) a front pushed through and it rained. The rain wasn&#8217;t much; it barely soaked in a 1\/32 of an inch. But when you haven&#8217;t had rain in almost two months every drop is glorious. And the temperatures! The high was only in the 80s. The low dropped into the 60s. Oh it really did feel like fall, for a day.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday morning I looked out my bedroom window and saw the first oxblood lilies in bloom. I jumped up and ran out to look at them. It wasn&#8217;t the rain that caused them to flower; it was because they were near some lavender I was watering. (As usual, they flowered for <a href=\"http:\/\/rantomat.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/early-harbinger.html\">Rantor<\/a> first, who reported first flower on 8\/23&#8211;and also that the Spanish name is <i>azucenita roja<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that on Thursday Austin was back to 102, Friday 100. This weekend rain is in the forecast. And next week our highs will only be in the 90s. Yep. Fall is here. An oxblood lily told me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/RhodophialaBifida7.jpg\" alt=\"Rhodophiala bifida\" \/><br \/><i>I&#8217;m cheating a bit because this is a photo from last September&#8230;anticipation.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156"}],"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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5362,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/5362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}