{"id":4276,"date":"2014-09-21T22:29:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T03:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2014-09-21T22:35:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T03:35:23","slug":"its-spring-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=4276","title":{"rendered":"It’s Spring All Over Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lewisia<\/a>

Lewisia pygmaea<\/p><\/div>\n

I was surprised to see that a little pot of Lewisia pygmaea seedlings was flowering even though I think of Lewisia as spring flowering plants. \u00a0But a little research showed\u00a0that indeed they can flower again in the fall after being dormant in the summertime. \u00a0The odd thing here is that this is the first bloom for these plants. \u00a0They only just germinated this spring from seeds distributed by the Alpine Garden Society<\/a> in 2013. \u00a0And there are no such flowers on the plants in the alpine bed which flowered wonderfully this spring. \u00a0Anyway I’ll enjoy them as a little bit of spring in the fall.<\/p>\n

The greenhouse is producing the other pronounced springtime right now. \u00a0All those plants that happily produce wintertime flowers are putting up green shoots like mad and some are even flowering. \u00a0The oxalis caught me off-guard with their rapid growth. \u00a0I dimly remembered planting them in early September last year, but that is clearly too late. \u00a0This is what some of the new acquisitions\u00a0looked like when I pulled them out of their bag.<\/p>\n

\"Oxalis<\/a>

Oxalis sprouting<\/p><\/div>\n

And the plants that I had moved to basement to spend a dormant summer were growing vigorously, regardless of having neither water or light. \u00a0Needless to say I will be more aware next year. \u00a0Anyway, I potted the new ones up and brought the old ones from the basement. \u00a0And in a little more than two weeks they are growing vigorously.<\/p>\n

\"Oxalis<\/a>

Oxalis caprina<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Oxalis<\/a>

Oxalis caprina<\/p><\/div>\n

Oxalis caprina\u00a0was the first to flower, even though it was just planted from a bulb. \u00a0It’s small and a bit scraggly as a plant but like all the oxalis it’s flower is worth looking at closely. \u00a0Second on the scene is Oxalis polyphylla v. heptaphylla.<\/p>\n

\"Oxalis<\/a>

Oxalis polyphylla v. heptaphylla<\/p><\/div>\n

In this case it is from one of last year’s pots. \u00a0The flowers are somewhat larger than the Oxalis caprina. \u00a0Many more varieties are on the way.<\/p>\n

\"Oxalis<\/a>

Oxalis hirta (pink)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Oxalis<\/a>

Oxalis bowiei<\/p><\/div>\n

Altogether I count more than 35 different kinds of oxalis at this point, mostly from the Pacific Bulb Society<\/a> bulb exchange and Telos Rare Bulbs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The oxalis have lots of friends and neighbors that are sprouting too. \u00a0The Ferrarias, Moraeas, Babianas, and Lachenalias are all coming along rapidly.<\/p>\n

\"Ferraria<\/a>

Ferraria ferrariola<\/p><\/div>\n

So you can see that I am actively contemplating the greenhouse in bloom but the outside is still filled with fall pleasures. \u00a0I’ll leave you with an image of Chrysanthemum abundance.<\/p>\n

\"Yellow<\/a>

Yellow Chrysanthemums<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was surprised to see that a little pot of Lewisia pygmaea seedlings was flowering even though I think of Lewisia as spring flowering plants. \u00a0But a little research showed\u00a0that indeed they can flower again in the fall after being dormant in the summertime. \u00a0The odd thing here is that this is the first bloom for these plants. \u00a0They only just germinated this spring from seeds distributed by the Alpine Garden Society in 2013. \u00a0And there are no such flowers on the plants in the alpine bed which flowered wonderfully this spring. \u00a0Anyway I’ll enjoy them as a little bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,4,34,47,8],"tags":[11,38,53,15,42],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulbs","category-flowers","category-greenhouse","category-indoor-plants","category-sources","tag-bulbs","tag-flowers","tag-greenhouse","tag-indoor-plants","tag-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","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=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}