{"id":2758,"date":"2009-08-15T15:18:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2018-05-28T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T20:48:11","slug":"gbbd-200908-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/monthly-comparison\/gbbd-200908-august-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"GBBD 200908: Aug 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nCarol at <a href=\"http:\/\/maydreamsgardens.blogspot.com\/index.html\">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<h3>August 15, 2009: Just Add Water<\/h3>\n<p>Now at day 56 of triple digit temperatures in the hottest summer ever recorded in Austin, I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d have anything to post for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. The yard (no point in calling it a garden at the moment) is mostly dead grass and dirt. For last month&#8217;s GBBD, I actually took notes and photos and then didn&#8217;t have the energy or desire to write up the post. But here at Zanthan Gardens, we were one of the lucky few in Austin to be a beneficiary of an inch of rain on Wednesday August 12th.<\/p>\n<p>In response, today, the &#8216;Labuffarosea&#8217; rainlilies that <a href=\"http:\/\/annieinaustin.blogspot.com\/\">Annie @ The Transplantable Rose<\/a> gave me bloomed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking my cue from the summer bulbs. I&#8217;m going to hunker down until the rain and then I&#8217;ll be back blooming.<\/p>\n<h4>Complete List for August<\/h4>\n<p>The list of all plants flowering today, August 15th 2009, at Zanthan Gardens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Antigonon leptopus (2007) (2008) (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Duranta erecta (overwintered) (2207) (2008) (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Hesperaloe parviflora (2008) (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Hibiscus syriacus (2007) (2008) (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Lagerstroemia indica &#8216;Catawba&#8217; (2007) (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Malvaviscus arboreus (2007) (2008) (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Nierembergia gracilis &#8216;Starry Eyes&#8217; (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Opuntia (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Plumbago auriculata (2007) (2008) (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Proboscidea louisianica, Devil\u2019s Claw (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Ruellia wild woody type (2007) (2008) (2009)<\/li>\n<li>waterlily \u2018Helvola&#8217; (2008) (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Zephyranthes &#8216;Labuffarosea&#8217; (2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s interesting looking at my notes from last August&#8211;the first year of this beyond critical  drought. The duranta and the rose of Sharon were surprising me with their toughness then too. The red yucca and turk&#8217;s cap had flowers but were worn and ratty looking. The nierembergia, the devil&#8217;s claw, and the cactus are new this year but toughing out the heat with supplemental water (well, I don&#8217;t water the cactus but it&#8217;s blooming anyway&#8211;in fact, better this year than it ever has.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/GBBD200908_rainlilies.jpg\" alt=\"Labuffarosea rainlilies\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[200,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758"}],"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=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5741,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/5741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}