{"id":2370,"date":"2008-06-15T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2017-07-20T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T19:16:14","slug":"garden-bloggers-bloom-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/monthly-comparison\/garden-bloggers-bloom-day\/","title":{"rendered":"GBBD 200806: June 2008"},"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

June 15, 2008<\/h3>\n

Brown summer came early to Zanthan Gardens this year. With temperatures hovering around 100F degrees for the last four<\/strong> weeks, I decide to focus all my resources on the plants (like roses and fruit trees) that I want to keep. So out go any marginally attractive plants or plants that will never make it through the summer anyway.<\/p>\n

We aren’t burnt entirely to a crisp yet. Here and there are some bright spots.<\/p>\n

\"Nerium<\/p>\n

One plant continues to defy the heat and put out extravagant flower pom-poms that are beautiful both in daylight and moonlight; that is the oleander ‘Shari D.’ It overflows on the path, crowds out the duranta and flowers without a care.<\/p>\n

The plumbago also always looks cool and crisp like a sophisticated woman in a linen dress. I’ve always loved its sky blue flowers. The leaves are a bright glossy green that don’t look droopy, wilted, or sunburnt.<\/p>\n

\"Plumbago\"<\/p>\n

New for June<\/h4>\n

Only four plants that began flowering since last GBBD and are still flowering today, June 15th.<\/p>\n

Antigonon leptopus (Coral Vine)
\n\"Antigonon<\/p>\n

\nThe coral vine was here when I bought the house. Every year it freezes back to the ground. Every summer it shoots up through the nandina and starts smothering the fence. Last year, when it was so rainy, it climbed to the top of a 30 foot cedar elm. This year, the flowers are small but its blooming and growing. I never water it. I never feed it. I’ve learned to love the electric pink because at times like these, we have to learn to appreciate what we’re given and not pine after what we aren’t (like lilacs and peonies).\n<\/p>\n

Canna ‘Bangkok Yellow’
\n\"Canna<\/p>\n

I reader told me that ‘Bangkok Yellow’ did well in a pond and when I finally got a pond it was one of the first things I planted in it. The canna in the pond are much happier than the ones in the ground at the moment. Unfortunately, they are tangled in the temporary netting we use to keep the raccoons out of the pond.<\/p>\n

Lagerstroemia indica ‘Catawba’ (Crape Myrtle)
\n\"Antigonon<\/p>\n

Summer in Austin means crape myrtles. I’m not a fan of a lot of crape myrtle colors but I liked this plummy red. They were looking better a couple of weeks ago but now the flowers are dry and shriveled. I’m going to cut them back and hope for another round.<\/p>\n

Finally the desert willow, Chilopsis linearis, has a few flowers at the very top that I couldn’t get a photograph of. I didn’t even notice them until I went hunting for GBBD flowers. (One of the reasons I love GBBD is that it makes me really look into the nooks and crannies of the garden.) Desert willow is one of those small trees, like vitex, which bloom like crazy all over Austin except in my garden. Too much shade? Not enough water? Or just bad gardening?<\/p>\n

Late Breaking Update<\/h4>\n

Two more plants flowered this afternoon. The waterlily that Pam\/Digging<\/a> gave me.
\n\"waterlily\"
\nAnd a white butterfly gaura that I just repotted.
\n\"gaura\"\n<\/p>\n

Between GBBDs<\/h4>\n

\nSeveral flower bloomed and faded in my garden between GBBDs and so didn’t show up in the inventory for either May or June.\n<\/p>\n

    \n
  • LA lily<\/li>\n
  • Ipomoea quamoclit, cypress vine<\/li>\n
  • Lindheimer senna<\/li>\n
  • Opuntia ficus-indica, spineless prickly pear cactus<\/li>\n
  • nasturtium<\/li>\n
  • pomegranite<\/li>\n
  • Vitex agnus-castus, chaste tree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Complete List for June<\/h4>\n

    The list of all plants flowering today, June 15th 2008, at Zanthan Gardens.<\/p>\n

      \n
    • Acanthus mollis<\/li>\n
    • Antigonon leptopus<\/li>\n
    • Canna ‘Bangkok Yellow’<\/li>\n
    • Chilopsis linearis, desert willow<\/li>\n
    • Commelina (common dayflower)<\/li>\n
    • Cosmos sulphureus<\/li>\n
    • Dianthus chinensis (1)<\/li>\n
    • Duranta erecta<\/li>\n
    • Echinacea purpurea<\/li>\n
    • Engelmannia peristenia\/pinnatifida<\/li>\n
    • Erythrina herbacea (coral bean) rebloom<\/li>\n
    • Eschscholzia californica ‘Mikado’ (on this year’s plants)<\/li>\n
    • Gaura lindheimeri<\/li>\n
    • Hesperaloe parviflora<\/li>\n
    • Hibiscus syriacus<\/li>\n
    • Lagerstroemia indica ‘Catawba’<\/li>\n
    • Lavandula heterophylla ‘Goodwin Creek’ (a few tiny flowers)<\/li>\n
    • Malvaviscus arboreus<\/li>\n
    • Mirabilis jalapa (magenta only)<\/li>\n
    • Nerium oleander ‘Turner\u2019s Shari D.’ (full bloom)<\/li>\n
    • Polanisia dodecandra<\/li>\n
    • Phlomis lanata<\/li>\n
    • Plumbago auriculata<\/li>\n
    • rose ‘Blush Noisette’ <\/li>\n
    • rose ‘Mermaid’ (a few flowers)<\/li>\n
    • rose ‘New Dawn’<\/li>\n
    • Rudbeckia hirta<\/li>\n
    • Ruellia<\/li>\n
    • waterlily ‘Helvola’ (first flower ever)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      \"Nigella
      Devil in the bush, Nigella damascena seedpod. Brown summer has arrived.<\/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":[55,200,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370"}],"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=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5062,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/5062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}