{"id":2401,"date":"2008-11-15T17:13:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2017-07-20T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:06:10","slug":"gbbd-200811-nov-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/monthly-comparison\/gbbd-200811-nov-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"GBBD 200811: Nov 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carol at May Dreams Gardens<\/a> invites us to tell her what\u2019s blooming in our gardens on the 15th of each month.<\/p>\n

Second fall has finally come to Austin. Temperatures were in the 80s yesterday and will be in the 30s tonight. We’ve had a few cool spells this month and the leaves are finally beginning to turn color. The Japanese persimmon is a deep gold, the crape myrtles a dull red, and under cover of a bright green canopy the red oaks are are changing. That surprised me because they are usually the last to color and lose their leaves, often not until the New Years. But the pecans remain stubbornly green and leafy still shading my winter garden. (This is an improvement on last year when they were shrouded in webworms.) The cedar elms remain green, too, but at least they are finally dropping leaves. The leaves on the bananas are looking ragged and yellow.<\/p>\n

By the way, first fall is when the hurricane rains break the summer heat. We had a chance of that happening on September 13th when Hurricane Ike was forecast to dump six inches of rain on Austin. It veered to the east and north and we got zero. We had one rain in mid-October. Since then, no rain has fallen on Zanthan Gardens. Although some lucky Austinites benefitted from scattered showers earlier this week, we did not. So the garden is left high and dry. I don’t so much reap what I sow but reap what I water and that, the last six months, has been very little.<\/p>\n

The only obvious flowers in the garden at the moment are the two rabid pink vines<\/a>, the coral vine and the Port St Johns creeper. Everything else you have to hunt for. There is also a stand of wild white asters along the front fence.<\/p>\n

The St Joseph’s Lily is blooming out of season. It sent up a stalk after that October rain, began blooming on sometime in November (did I Tweet it?) and the last flower is just fading today. I’m glad it lasted long enough to get count for GBBD.
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November 15th, 2008<\/h2>\n

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