{"id":2380,"date":"2008-07-15T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2017-07-20T14:31:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T19:31:31","slug":"gbbd-200807","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/monthly-comparison\/gbbd-200807\/","title":{"rendered":"GBBD 200807: July 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

July 15, 2008<\/h3>\n

\nI seriously considered not participating in GBBD this month. Nothing to see here, folks. Just move along. Come back in the fall. Yesterday Austin temps hit 105F\/40.5C and even the plants that had been holding tough against our 27 (who’s counting) days of triple-digit heat finally gave up. I have to remind myself that that’s no attitude to take. It’s GBBD, dammit. Something must be blooming and even death and decay have their own beauty, if we look for it.\n<\/p>\n

New for July<\/h4>\n

\nOnly one new flower opened in July, a perennial black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia fulgida<\/i>. It’s not quite established yet and it’s had a few days when I wondered if it would make it. I don’t even like black-eyed Susans much. But since it’s the only thing growing, I have have to like it.
\n\"Rudbeckia\n<\/p>\n

Between GBBDs<\/h4>\n

\nOne flower bloomed between GBBDs and so didn’t show up in the inventory for either June or July. It was the last remaining bulb of some drumstick alliums–the little ornamental onion with the big name, Allium sphaerocephalon<\/a>–that I planted years ago. It was a small pathetic flower and I might as well face the fact that they have bloomed themselves out. All that’s left are thousands of tiny bulblets.\n<\/p>\n

Complete List for July<\/h4>\n

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

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  • Antigonon leptopus<\/li>\n
  • Canna ‘Bangkok Yellow’<\/li>\n
  • Cosmos sulphureus<\/li>\n
  • Duranta erecta<\/li>\n
  • Echinacea purpurea (doing well all month)<\/li>\n
  • Engelmannia peristenia\/pinnatifida (one flower)<\/li>\n
  • Erythrina herbacea (coral bean) rebloom<\/li>\n
  • Gaura lindheimeri (doing very well in a pot)<\/li>\n
  • Hesperaloe parviflora (mostly gone to seed)<\/li>\n
  • Hibiscus syriacus (flowering well)<\/li>\n
  • Lagerstroemia indica ‘Catawba’<\/li>\n
  • Lantana montevidensis<\/li>\n
  • Lavandula heterophylla ‘Goodwin Creek’ (a few tiny flowers)<\/li>\n
  • Malvaviscus arboreus<\/li>\n
  • Nerium oleander ‘Turner\u2019s Shari D.’ (one flower left, needs to be cut back)<\/li>\n
  • Oxalis triangularis (purple)<\/li>\n
  • Polanisia dodecandra<\/li>\n
  • Plumbago auriculata (one flower)<\/li>\n
  • Rudbeckia fulgida (two flowers)<\/li>\n
  • Ruellia<\/li>\n
  • Tradescantia pallida\/setcreasea<\/li>\n
  • Vitex (a couple of flowers<\/li>\n
  • waterlily ‘Helvola’ (a few flowers every day since June GBBD)<\/li>\n
  • Zephyranthes grandiflora (one flower where I watered the other day)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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