{"id":2291,"date":"2007-09-14T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T21:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2017-07-19T23:40:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T04:40:39","slug":"september-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/monthly-comparison\/september-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"GBBD 200709: Sep 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carol at May Dreams Gardens<\/a> invites us to tell her what’s blooming in our gardens on the 15th of each month.<\/p>\n

2007<\/h4>\n

April and September are the two big months for bloom in my Austin garden. In September, hurricane rains alternating with cold fronts blowing down the plains states bring the garden back to life after summer, beginning with the oxblood lilies. If you missed the oxblood lily day<\/a> here at Zanthan Gardens, look at yesterday’s post.<\/p>\n

\"Rhodophiala<\/p>\n

This year we’ve had so much rain that the garden has been in high gear since March. The vines have been especially happy.<\/p>\n

\"Antigonon
\nThe coral vine has covered the fence and climbed over twenty feet into my neighbor’s cedar elm.<\/p>\n

\"Four<\/p>\n

Most of the four o’clocks died back in the heat of summer but the hot pink one is fighting it out with the cypress vine to see which is the most aggressive.<\/p>\n

That honor goes to Podranea ricasoliana<\/i> variously called the pink trumpet vine, Port St Johns Creeper, and desert willow vine, the latter because the flower looks similar to a the desert willow. This south African native is on the banned list in Australia. I think it should be in Texas, too. I see one flower about to open. I might have to wait until late afternoon to see if it will qualify for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day this September.<\/p>\n

\"rose<\/p>\n

The rose ‘Prosperity’ looks almost ivory in the early morning autumn sunlight. This flower is barely an inch and a half (4cm) across. In the spring the flowers have more blush pink tones. I find that roses often have more intense colors in the spring when the highs are in the 60s and 70s than in the fall when they are in the 90s. She’s the only rose which got can dieback last year that I managed to save. She used to half a dozen arching canes and now is down to one scraggly one. But she’s been blooming for the last couple of weeks so I hope she’s making a comeback.<\/p>\n

I’m disappointed that ‘Heritage’ isn’t blooming today; she looked so lovely at the beginning of the month. Most of the other roses are flowering or trying to.<\/p>\n

\"Allium<\/p>\n

The garlic chives are still attracting wasps, bees, and moths. The orange cosmos are beckoning to the butterflies. As is the Duranta erecta.<\/p>\n

\"Oleander\"
\nNerium oleander ‘Shari D.’ in full bloom.<\/p>\n