{"id":2279,"date":"2007-08-15T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2017-07-19T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T21:48:30","slug":"august-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/monthly-comparison\/august-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"GBBD 200708: Aug 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nCarol at <a href=\"http:\/\/maydreamsgardens.blogspot.com\/index.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">May Dreams Gardens<\/a> invites us to tell her what&#8217;s blooming in our gardens on the 15th of each month.\n<\/p>\n<h4>August 15, 2007<\/h4>\n<p>\nNow that Austin is finally reaching normal summer temperatures, many plants have decided it&#8217;s time to close up shop until fall. However, after receiving almost twice our annual rainfall, the garden looks better than usual for this time of year. Typically here, there are few new flowers in the garden in August. Most of what&#8217;s blooming is just hanging on for dear life.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abelia grandiflora<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plants\/allium.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Allium tuberosum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Antigonon leptopus<\/li>\n<li>Asclepias curassavica<\/li>\n<li>Canna&#8211;unknown red from seed<\/li>\n<li>chili pequin&#8211;very few flowers but covered in fruit<\/li>\n<li>Coriandrum sativum&#8211;some cilantro sprouted with last month&#8217;s rains and quickly flowered on ragged 1 foot tall plants<\/li>\n<li>Cosmos sulphureus<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/archives\/002123.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Duranta erecta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plants\/hibiscusSyriacus.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hibiscus syriacus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ipomoea quamoclit (cypress vine)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plants\/myrtle.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lagerstroemia indica<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lantana &#8216;New Gold&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Malvaviscus arboreus<\/li>\n<li>Mirabilis jalapa pink<\/li>\n<li>monkey grass<\/li>\n<li>Oenothera speciosa (pink evening primrose)<\/li>\n<li>Oxalis triangularis<\/li>\n<li>Nerium oleander &#8216;Turner&#8217;s Shari D.&#8217; &#8212; full, gorgeous bloom<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plants\/plumbago.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Plumbago auriculata<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plants\/polanisia.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Polanisia dodecandra<\/a><\/li>\n<li>rose &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/archives\/001642.html\">Blush Noisette<\/a>&#8216; &#8212; once again in full bloom<\/li>\n<li>rose &#8216;Red Cascade&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>rosemary (unusual for summer here)<\/li>\n<li>Rudbeckia hirta &#8212; fading<\/li>\n<li>Ruellia (Mexican petunia)&#8211;dependable this time of year<\/li>\n<li>Tulbaghia violacea (society garlic) Thanks, Pam!<\/li>\n<li>Verbena canadensis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/CosmosSulphureus1.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Cosmos sulpureus\" \/><br \/><i>Cosmos sulphureus<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[129,200,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279"}],"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=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5490,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/5490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}