{"id":5113,"date":"2016-07-16T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T19:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2016-07-16T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T19:35:38","slug":"garden-bloggers-bloom-day-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=5113","title":{"rendered":"Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Orienpet<\/a>

Orienpet Lily ‘Anastasia’<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, if you had to pick a theme flower for this month’s Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day<\/a> it would the lilies. \u00a0Despite the dry weather we have been experiencing, they are exploding all over the yard, especially the hybrids between orientals and trumpets (aka orienpets). \u00a0They are tall, fragrant, floriferous, and individually stunning.<\/p>\n

\"Orienpet<\/a>

Orienpet Lily ‘Anastasia’ single bloom<\/p><\/div>\n

In the house they make quite a display too.<\/p>\n

\"Orienpet<\/a>

Orienpet Lily ‘Anastasia’ in the house<\/p><\/div>\n

Here are some others of the lily orienpet persuasion.<\/p>\n

\"Orienpet<\/a>

Orienpet Lily ‘Scheherazade’<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Orienpet<\/a>

Orienpet Lily ‘Scheherazade’ single flower<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Orienpet<\/a>

Orienpet Lily ‘Pretty Woman’<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, even the old-fashioned orientals are pretty spectacular.<\/p>\n

\"Oriental<\/a>

Oriental lily \u2018Time Out\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Oriental<\/a>

Oriental Lily ‘Casablanca’<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Oriental<\/a>

Oriental Lily ‘Muscadet’<\/p><\/div>\n

And then a new one added to collection this year is Lilium henryii hybrid.<\/p>\n

\"Lilium<\/a>

Lilium henryi hybrid ‘Madame Butterfly’<\/p><\/div>\n

There are course still many annuals and some of the standard perennials, but one of the species that has asked for special recognition is the Crocosmia. \u00a0These wonderful bulbs from the iris family are durable, productive and beautiful, year after year.<\/p>\n

\"Crocosmia<\/a>

Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Crocosmia<\/a>

Crocosmia \u00d7 crocosmiflora ‘George Davison’<\/p><\/div>\n

Another new plant for us is the popular anemone ‘Wild Swan’.<\/p>\n

\"Anemone<\/a>

Anemone ‘Wild Swan’ front<\/p><\/div>\n

It is especially characterized by the purple markings on the back of the petals.<\/p>\n

\"Anemone<\/a>

Anemone ‘Wild Swan’ back<\/p><\/div>\n

In the greenhouse we have several noteworthy arrivals. \u00a0First a very unusual Pineapple Lily.<\/p>\n

\"Eucomis<\/a>

Eucomis vandermerwei<\/p><\/div>\n

This is only found in the wild between 7000′ and 8000′ in South Africa. \u00a0 At some point I might experiment with growing it outside.<\/p>\n

Also from South Africa is member of the Amaryllis family, Cyrtanthus elatus x montanus.<\/p>\n

\"Cytanthus<\/a>

Cytanthus elatus x montanus<\/p><\/div>\n

A little Cyclamen is flowering from seed planted in 2013.<\/p>\n

\"Cyclamen<\/a>

Cyclamen hederifolium<\/p><\/div>\n

And a welcome returnee is this rain lily.<\/p>\n

\"Habranthus<\/a>

Habranthus brachyandrus<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the fun things for me is finding the unusual animals that populate the yard, if you take the time to notice them. \u00a0Last week it was this wonderful dime-sized spider that caught my eye.<\/p>\n

\"Jumping<\/a>

Jumping spider from the greenhouse<\/p><\/div>\n

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Well, if you had to pick a theme flower for this month’s Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day it would the lilies. \u00a0Despite the dry weather we have been experiencing, they are exploding all over the yard, especially the hybrids between orientals and trumpets (aka orienpets). \u00a0They are tall, fragrant, floriferous, and individually stunning. In the house they make quite a display too. Here are some others of the lily orienpet persuasion. Of course, even the old-fashioned orientals are pretty spectacular. And then a new one added to collection this year is Lilium henryii hybrid. There are course still many annuals and […]<\/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":[43,7,21,1,34],"tags":[11,38,49,53,27],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulbs","category-insectsetc","category-garden-bloggers-bloom-day","category-general","category-greenhouse","tag-bulbs","tag-flowers","tag-garden-bloggers-bloom-day","tag-greenhouse","tag-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","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=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5134,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/5134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}