{"id":717,"date":"2004-09-16T21:11:31","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T02:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=717"},"modified":"2017-07-17T17:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T22:01:03","slug":"week-37-910-916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/weekly-comparison\/week-37-910-916\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 37: 9\/10 &#8211; 9\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Need to redo garden history. Old dates were 9\/14 - 9\/20 --><br \/>\n<strong>Dateline: 2004<\/strong><!-- 2004-09-16 --><br \/>\nIf fall is the South&#8217;s spring, then oxblood lilies are our daffodils.<\/p>\n<p>About three inches of rain which fell the other day have brought out the oxblood lilies en masse. A few had bloomed earlier when I watered the lawn near them. But those were just teasers. The garlic chives have been blooming since August 12. The hyacinth bean vines are flowering. I think they do best in the fall. The sago palm is putting out new fronds. I&#8217;m relieved since this is the first time since I transplanted it into the garden. Mostly I&#8217;m working inside the house right now, and just admiring the garden from within.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in the 90s and muggy again this week after some cool dry weather last week. So it doesn&#8217;t feel like fall anymore. But we really needed the rain in the city. The last few storm systems to the northwest (which dumped 10 inches around Marble Falls) didn&#8217;t bring us any rain.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Dateline: 2003<\/strong><!-- 2003-09-19 --><br \/>\nMy notes for this year are almost the same as last, except that the four o&#8217;clocks are all grown up now and have put out a new, vigorous flush of flowers crowding out everything else for a square yard or so.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/20030917oxblood.jpg\" alt=\"photo: oxblood lily\" width=\"320px\"\/><br \/><i>Oxblood lilies. 2003-09-17. Austin, Texas.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dateline: 2002<\/strong><!-- 2002-09-15 --><br \/>\nFall does not announce itself here in a blaze of colored foliage and falling leaves, but with rejuvenating rains. Last week the oxblood lilies responded by blooming en masse. They have never been more beautiful. Imagine the yellow daffodils covering the fells in the Lake District; then, adjust the hue so that the yellow becomes a deep brilliant red. The blooms last only two or three days, the moment made precious by its transience.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just to get our attention. The days that follow are cooler (highs only in the 80s) and their light more golden. Summer&#8217;s survivors shake themselves out of their heat-induced lethargy. The squirrels go crazy stealing pecans and digging holes in the lawn and flower beds to stash their treasures. The roses begin blooming again. The chili and tomato plants start producing new flowers and setting fruit. Bluebonnets are sprouting.<\/p>\n<p>The Pandorea ricasoliana finally bloomed. The Datura inoxia is covered with new white blossoms. The 4 o-clocks will flower for the first time tomorrow. I&#8217;m dividing irises and cleaning up potted plants. And, last week I began work on a new garden&#8211;a little courtyard garden to make the entryway off the driveway more pleasant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/RhodophialaBifida4.jpg\" alt=\"photo: oxblood lily\" width=\"320px\"\/><br \/><i>Oxblood lilies, the soul of Zanthan Gardens. 2004-09-16. Austin, Texas.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5261,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/5261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}