{"id":3404,"date":"2009-12-15T22:08:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T03:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2018-08-15T18:51:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T23:51:54","slug":"gbbd-200912-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/monthly-comparison\/gbbd-200912-december-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"GBBD 200912: Dec 2009"},"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

December 2009<\/h3>\n

The last couple of Decembers, I managed to sneak in a flowery GBBD before winter’s first hard freeze. This December the hard freeze came first to Austin and so there is very little blooming in the garden today.<\/p>\n

New for December<\/h4>\n

Only two plants began flowering since November’s GBBD: one passalong blue bearded iris and the winter honeysuckle, Lonicera fragrantissima<\/i>. That’s a long name for an insignificant flower. It’s power is in its scent. Both began blooming yesterday (12\/14).<\/p>\n

\"Lonicera
Winter honeysuckle.<\/i><\/p>\n

I also bought a tray of yellow snapdragons. They hardly seem like real flowers since I bought them in bloom and they look more or less the same weeks later. I usually buy violas but I couldn’t find a color I liked this year.<\/p>\n

The white marigold ‘Kilimanjaro’ bloomed just days before the freeze and then died. The paperwhite narcissus, the first of all the narcissus to bloom, are usually flowering in my garden by now. They are flowering elsewhere in Austin but not here. Mine need dividing, I think.<\/p>\n

Hanging on<\/h4>\n

Pacific chrysanthemum caught the fancy of several garden bloggers during our field trip to the San Antonio Botanical Gardens. I picked up a plant at the Antique Rose Emporium that same trip. The flowers are a pretty gold but I’m more attracted to the foliage.
\n\"Ajania
Pacific chrysanthemum.<\/i><\/p>\n

Snow fell in Austin since November’s GBBD but it didn’t stick. The closest I have to a carpet of snow is a little clump of sweet alyssum which survived the heat of summer.
\n\"Lobularia
Sweet alyssum.<\/i><\/p>\n

The roses ‘Ducher’ and ‘Red Cascade’ which were in full bloom before the freeze have survived. Some of the smallest buds froze and never opened but the larger flowers still look pretty from a distance. On closer inspection you can see they were nipped by the cold but unlike so many other flowers, they didn’t turn to much and go brown.<\/p>\n

December 15, 2009<\/h3>\n

The list of all plants flowering today, December 15, 2009, at Zanthan Gardens.<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Ajania pacifica (2009)<\/li>\n
  • Antirrhinum majus (2009)<\/li>\n
  • Aster ericoides (2007, 2009)<\/li>\n
  • Commelinantia anomala (2009) a few flowers, most froze<\/li>\n
  • Galphimia gracilis, indoors (2009)<\/li>\n
  • iris, unidentified blue bearded (2009)<\/li>\n
  • Lobularia maritima ‘Tiny Tim’ (2007, 2009) survived the summer<\/li>\n
  • Lonicera fragrantissima (2009)<\/li>\n
  • parsnips (2009)<\/li>\n
  • rose ‘Ducher’ (2007, 2009)<\/li>\n
  • rose ‘Red Cascade’ (2009)<\/li>\n
  • rosemary (2007, 2008, 2009)<\/li>\n
  • Setcreasea (2007, 2009) green<\/li>\n
  • Tagetes lucida (2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \"blue
    Unidentified bearded iris.<\/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":[27,65,290,294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404"}],"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=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5763,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}