{"id":5137,"date":"2016-08-16T09:33:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2016-08-16T09:33:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T14:33:48","slug":"garden-bloggers-bloom-day-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=5137","title":{"rendered":"Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day August 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Gentiana<\/a>

Gentiana paradoxa<\/p><\/div>\n

I find myself at the beach for this Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day<\/a>, but before leaving I snapped a few shots of the flowering activity around our hillside. \u00a0The gentian pictured above is a vigorous spreader in the Alpine bed that is a reliable harbinger of fall. \u00a0The feathery insides of the flower make it one of the prettiest flowers I know.<\/p>\n

The rest of the yard is dominated by the hardy annuals and sturdy perennials that can make it through a dry Maryland summer. \u00a0A great example is the state flower, Black-eyed Susans, that dominates our front bed.<\/p>\n

\"Black-eyed<\/a>

Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta)<\/p><\/div>\n

In the vegetable garden we often grow Mexican Sunflower (Sithonia) which are very attractive to butterflies.<\/p>\n

\"Tithonia\"<\/a>

Tithonia<\/p><\/div>\n

There a number of plants that deserve special praise for returning one or more times during the summer.<\/p>\n

\"Clematis<\/a>

Clematis ‘Roguchi’<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Asclepias<\/a>

Asclepias ‘Hello Yellow’<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Salvia<\/a>

Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’<\/p><\/div>\n

The salvia is not supposed to be hardy in our area, but it has returned reliably for 5 years now.<\/p>\n

The two lobelias, red and blue, are winners for an August garden.<\/p>\n

\"Lobelia<\/a>

Lobelia cardinalis<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Great<\/a>

Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)<\/p><\/div>\n

Amongst the shrubs, the Hydrangea ‘Limelight makes a long and lovely showing.<\/p>\n

\"Hydrangea<\/a>

Hydrangea ‘Limelight’<\/p><\/div>\n

From the greenhouse a number of the formosa lilies are in full flower.<\/p>\n

\"lilium<\/a>

lilium formosanum<\/p><\/div>\n

And the small Herbertia texensis is putting out it’s complex flowers.<\/p>\n

\"Herbertia<\/a>

Herbertia texensis<\/p><\/div>\n

Let me close, because the beach is calling, with a wildlife image from the garden. \u00a0I found this remarkably lovely caterpillar on a tree peony leaf.<\/p>\n

\"Caterpillar<\/a>

Caterpillar (American Dagger Moth?)<\/p><\/div>\n

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I find myself at the beach for this Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day, but before leaving I snapped a few shots of the flowering activity around our hillside. \u00a0The gentian pictured above is a vigorous spreader in the Alpine bed that is a reliable harbinger of fall. \u00a0The feathery insides of the flower make it one of the prettiest flowers I know. The rest of the yard is dominated by the hardy annuals and sturdy perennials that can make it through a dry Maryland summer. \u00a0A great example is the state flower, Black-eyed Susans, that dominates our front bed. In the […]<\/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":[4,21,34,3],"tags":[38,49,53,24],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-garden-bloggers-bloom-day","category-greenhouse","category-tree_shrubs","tag-flowers","tag-garden-bloggers-bloom-day","tag-greenhouse","tag-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","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=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5150,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}