{"id":4401,"date":"2010-11-15T21:29:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T02:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2017-07-17T15:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T15:32:01","slug":"gbbd-201011-nov-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/monthly-comparison\/gbbd-201011-nov-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"GBBD 201011: Nov 2010"},"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

November 15, 2010<\/h3>\n

The day began gray and gloomy, real November weather. Mid-afternoon it finally cleared a little but the chill remained. We built our first fire of the season tonight.<\/p>\n

Lots of forward-thinking Austinites are scurrying around preparing for our first frost. One of the earliest freezes in recent years was on November 17, 2005. I’m hoping this will be the warm, dry winter forecast; I have a lot of tomatoes hanging in the balance. The ‘Gold Rush Currant’ tomatoes open scores of flowers every day even though I pinch them back daily.<\/p>\n

The leaves of most of the trees are beginning to turn. They aren’t dropping off fast enough to suit me, though. I’m anxious for the leaves to drop, so I can clean up, and plant my meadow flowers out.<\/p>\n

Almost everything flowering today is new for this month. The Pacific chrysanthemum and the butterfly weed started opening today.<\/p>\n

\"Pacific
Pacific chrysanthemum, Ajania pacifica<\/i><\/p>\n

\"AsclepiasScarlet milkweed, Asclepias curassavica<\/i><\/p>\n

The ‘Elves Blend’ sunflowers are in full bloom now. So is one wild sunflower. I planted another variety for fall but it hasn’t bloomed yet. Last year, Austin got its first freeze before the sunflowers opened.
\n\"Helianthus
Elves Blend sunflower, Helianthus annuus<\/i><\/p>\n

I planted some other flowers for fall color but I forgot how bad the shade is still in November. The zinnias and cosmos were a complete failure.<\/p>\n

The rest of today’s flowers were brought to me by other Austin garden bloggers. The white cat’s whiskers are a passalong from Robin at Getting Grounded<\/a>.
\n\"Cats
Cat’s whiskers, Orthosiphon stamineus<\/i><\/p>\n

The stunning Salvia madrensis is a passalong from Renee at Renee’s Roots<\/a>.
\n\"Salvia
Salvia madrensis<\/i><\/p>\n

And now in its second year, the Mexican mint marigold is a passalong from Annie at The Transplantable Rose<\/a>.
\n\"Tagetes
Mexican mint marigold, Tagetes lucida<\/i><\/p>\n

November 15, 2010<\/h3>\n

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

    \n
  • Abelia grandiflora (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Ajania pacifica (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Aloe ‘Grassy Lassie’ (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Antigonon leptopus (2010) almost all gone to seed<\/li>\n
  • Antirrhinum majus (2010) rebloom, survived summer<\/li>\n
  • Asclepias curassavica (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Dianthus ‘Fandango Crimson’ (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Duranta erecta (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Galphimia glauca (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Helianthus annuus ‘Elves Blend’ (2010) wild<\/li>\n
  • Helianthus annuus (2010) wild<\/li>\n
  • Lantana montevidensis (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Lantana ‘New Gold’ (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Nerium oleander (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Nierembergia gracilis \u2018Starry Eyes\u2019 (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Orthosiphon stamineus (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Pandorea ricasalonia (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Parkinsonia aculeata, Retama (2010)<\/li>\n
  • rose ‘Blush Noisette’ (2010)<\/li>\n
  • rose ‘New Dawn’ (2010)<\/li>\n
  • rose ‘Red Cascade’ (2010)<\/li>\n
  • rosemary (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Salvia madrensis (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Setcresea (both purple and green) (2010)<\/li>\n
  • Tagetes lucida (2010)<\/li>\n
  • tomato (2010)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \"Aloe
    Hybrid aloe ‘Grassy Lassie’.<\/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":[27,32,53,230,352,425,471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401"}],"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=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}