{"id":3220,"date":"2013-01-21T01:54:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T05:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2013-01-21T01:54:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T05:54:49","slug":"hello-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"Hello Sunshine!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Adonis<\/a>

Adonis amurensis ‘Fukujukai’<\/p><\/div>\n

Today the temperature got over 50 degrees with a beautiful sunny sky and I celebrated in the garden. \u00a0And a little Adonis amurensis celebrated with me. \u00a0The Adonis is always one of the earlier plants for us but it’s more than two weeks ahead of last year. \u00a0Who can fail to be charmed by such a bright yellow bloomer that risks the early winter weather?<\/p>\n

I first encountered Adonis at a plant sale conducted at a NARGS<\/a> meeting. \u00a0Barry Yinger of the former Asiatica Nursery was selling some of these little gems at $20 a pop. \u00a0Unfortunately I did not really appreciate what I was looking at and I failed to take advantage. \u00a0Since then I’ve been to Winterthur<\/a> in the early spring and seen their ‘March Bank’ covered with the golden Adonis. \u00a0Subsequently, I did order one from Asiatica and by happenstance got a premium variety, ‘Sandanzaki’, that I have tried to slow down by mulching for this year as it lost parts of the flower to cold weather last year. \u00a0It is nonetheless sticking it’s head above the ground now too. \u00a0Fukujukai is apparently a sterile hybrid that developed in the wild and may be the most popular cultivar because of it’s semi-double flowers and vigorous growth habit (I see five buds above ground in it’s second year of flowering).<\/p>\n

\"Adonis<\/a>

Adonis amurensis ‘Fukujukai’ with more buds to come<\/p><\/div>\n

We will be fully testing the cold resilience of these flowers over the next few days. \u00a0While they do close their flowers when the sun goes down weather predictions call for a wintry mix tomorrow with temperatures dropping to 10 degrees on Tuesday night. \u00a0If so, it would be the coldest weather that we’ve had thus far this winter. \u00a0In the meantime I’m enjoying these little chunks of sunshine and celebrating the steady march toward springtime…<\/p>\n

\"Adonis<\/a>

Adonis amurensis ‘Fukujukai’<\/p><\/div>\n

The Adonis are not the only flowers celebrating an early spring. \u00a0I also saw the little Persian Speedwell (a weed by most standards) out in force today. \u00a0They seemed to enjoy the warmth reflected by the greenhouse wall.<\/p>\n

\"Persian<\/a>

Persian Speedwell (Veronica persica)<\/p><\/div>\n

And there were Dandelions as well. \u00a0Even the Peonies were starting to get into the act. \u00a0The buds from Molly the Witch were fully exposed today.<\/p>\n

\"Peony<\/a>

Peony buds, Molly the Witch (Paeonia molokosewitschii)<\/p><\/div>\n

Stay tuned as the cold returns in force this week.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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Today the temperature got over 50 degrees with a beautiful sunny sky and I celebrated in the garden. \u00a0And a little Adonis amurensis celebrated with me. \u00a0The Adonis is always one of the earlier plants for us but it’s more than two weeks ahead of last year. \u00a0Who can fail to be charmed by such a bright yellow bloomer that risks the early winter weather? I first encountered Adonis at a plant sale conducted at a NARGS meeting. \u00a0Barry Yinger of the former Asiatica Nursery was selling some of these little gems at $20 a pop. \u00a0Unfortunately I did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,4,9],"tags":[11,38,46],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulbs","category-flowers","category-signs-of-spring","tag-bulbs","tag-flowers","tag-signs-of-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}