{"id":3449,"date":"2013-06-01T16:34:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T20:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2013-06-01T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T20:35:33","slug":"what-a-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=3449","title":{"rendered":"What a weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Callirhoe<\/a>

Callirhoe involucrata (first bloom today!)<\/p><\/div>\n

We just had a spectacular Memorial Day weekend. The family was down for a long weekend and the weather got better every day. \u00a0The sunshine and the rain gave a boost to all the flowers that we’ve been growing. \u00a0There was a lot of time spent out of doors. \u00a0In between gardening activities we played baseball and picked strawberries.<\/p>\n

\"Picking<\/a>

Picking strawberries<\/p><\/div>\n

My granddaughter and youngest son completely weeded and mulched the blueberries.<\/p>\n

\"Weeding<\/a>

Weeding blueberries<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Blueberries<\/a>

Blueberries all weeded and mulched<\/p><\/div>\n

And while that was happening my eldest and I put up the trough which they had gifted me for Christmas. \u00a0I had picked it out at Oliver’s<\/a> three weeks ago.<\/p>\n

\"Preparing<\/a>

Preparing the Large Trough<\/p><\/div>\n

For a planting mix we used equal parts of Miracle gro, chicken grit, topsoil, and sand. \u00a0I hope the plants recognize the care that went into this decision.<\/p>\n

\"Trough<\/a>

Trough Mix<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Trough<\/a>

Trough mounted on blocks<\/p><\/div>\n

The fun part comes when you start to lay out the candidate plants (which I had been storing up for months).<\/p>\n

\"Planting<\/a>

Planting the trough<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The finished Large Trough<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is a completely annotated version of the trough.<\/p>\n

\"Large<\/a>

Large Trough w- names<\/p><\/div>\n

It will be interesting to see how many of these alpines survive our sometime brutal summer.<\/p>\n

I got so enthused with this process that after the kids left I planted a second, smaller trough that I had brought back from Stonecrop this year.<\/p>\n

\"Preparing<\/a>

Preparing the Small Trough<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Small<\/a>

Small Trough in process<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Finished<\/a>

Finished Small Trough<\/p><\/div>\n

And here’s the annotated version of this trough which sits just outside our backdoor for daily inspection.<\/p>\n

\"Small<\/a>

Small Trough w- names<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, this gives some idea of what I’ve been up to but I need to share a few special flowers as well.<\/p>\n

\"Persian<\/a>

Persian cornflower<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Phlomis<\/a>

Phlomis russeliana (Sticky Jerusalem sage)<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Calochortus<\/a>

Calochortus venustus<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Conandron<\/a>

Conandron ramondioides (very tiny but cute)<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Bartzella<\/a>

Bartzella Itoh Peony<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Spuria<\/a>

Spuria Iris ‘Highland Coral’, the first spuria to bloom this year<\/p><\/div>\n

And last but not least a wonderful Arisaema.<\/p>\n

\"Arisaema<\/a>

Arisaema candidissimum (Pink-flowered White Stripe Cobra Lily)<\/p><\/div>\n

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

We just had a spectacular Memorial Day weekend. The family was down for a long weekend and the weather got better every day. \u00a0The sunshine and the rain gave a boost to all the flowers that we’ve been growing. \u00a0There was a lot of time spent out of doors. \u00a0In between gardening activities we played baseball and picked strawberries. My granddaughter and youngest son completely weeded and mulched the blueberries. And while that was happening my eldest and I put up the trough which they had gifted me for Christmas. \u00a0I had picked it out at Oliver’s three weeks ago. […]<\/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":[50,43,4,8],"tags":[18,11,38,42],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berries","category-bulbs","category-flowers","category-sources","tag-berries","tag-bulbs","tag-flowers","tag-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","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=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}