{"id":3166,"date":"2012-12-15T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T23:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2012-12-15T23:39:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T03:39:58","slug":"garden-bloggers-bloom-day-december-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day December 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Helleborus<\/a>

Helleborus niger ‘HGC Jacob’ flower<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s GBBD<\/a> again! \u00a0Time to seek out the flowers around Ball Rd and see what we can share with others. \u00a0Probably the standout right now are two Christmas roses, ‘HGC Jacob’. \u00a0Both plants are fully in flower and have lots of buds coming.<\/p>\n

\"Helleborus<\/a>

Helleborus niger ‘HGC Jacob’<\/p><\/div>\n

They don’t seem to mind the cold \u2014 we’ve had frost the last few nights \u2014 but the flowers do look a little shopworn if you examine them closely.<\/p>\n

What I find still remarkable is the double pink Camellia that is so far ahead of its Camellia japonica brethren.<\/p>\n

\"Double<\/a>

Double Pink Camellia<\/p><\/div>\n

It just keeps on putting out flowers that we bring into the house and leave on the table in small bowls.<\/p>\n

At the same time, across the yard our red Camellia sasanqua just never stops flowering at all and they have less of a tendency to get frosted off than the japonica.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>

Red Camellia sasanqua bud<\/p><\/div>\n

In the Camellia bed we also have a little patch of Primula kisoanna that is putting up flowers already.<\/p>\n

\"Primula<\/a>

Primula kisoana<\/p><\/div>\n

This is a rather pretty little thug and I have to decide what to do with its spreading habit this year.<\/p>\n

Over near the driveway one of the Creeping Phlox got the wrong memo about springtime.<\/p>\n

\"Creeping<\/a>

Creeping Phlox ‘Candy Stripe’ (Phlox subulata)<\/p><\/div>\n

Another plant pushing the boundaries of lust for springtime is the red Flowering Quince.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>

Red Flowering Quince (Chaemoneles)<\/p><\/div>\n

This is not so surprising since two warm days in a row usually brings the quince into flower.<\/p>\n

Not so many flowers otherwise in the yard, but in the greenhouse…<\/p>\n

Well a few anyway, since we’re just getting started.<\/p>\n

\"White-Pink<\/a>

White-Pink Bougainvillea<\/p><\/div>\n

The two Bougainvillea are both flowering and budding up a storm at the same time.<\/p>\n

Another tropical in bloom is the Mandevilla which Beth bought as large potted plant this year.<\/p>\n

\"Mandevilla\"<\/a>

Mandevilla<\/p><\/div>\n

It is loving the California weather in the greenhouse. \u00a0I’m basically keeping the greenhouse at about 40 degrees minimum with an artificial rainstorm every 4 days. \u00a0Seems to be working out fine so far.<\/p>\n

\"Greenhouse<\/a>

Greenhouse panorama<\/p><\/div>\n

I wish the greenhouse were as big as this distorted iPhone view implies but it gives you some idea of what’s going on. More seedlings started every day…<\/p>\n

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It’s GBBD again! \u00a0Time to seek out the flowers around Ball Rd and see what we can share with others. \u00a0Probably the standout right now are two Christmas roses, ‘HGC Jacob’. \u00a0Both plants are fully in flower and have lots of buds coming. They don’t seem to mind the cold \u2014 we’ve had frost the last few nights \u2014 but the flowers do look a little shopworn if you examine them closely. What I find still remarkable is the double pink Camellia that is so far ahead of its Camellia japonica brethren. It just keeps on putting out flowers that […]<\/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":[4,21,34],"tags":[38,49,53],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-garden-bloggers-bloom-day","category-greenhouse","tag-flowers","tag-garden-bloggers-bloom-day","tag-greenhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}