{"id":3810,"date":"2013-12-16T18:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2013-12-16T18:16:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:16:18","slug":"garden-bloggers-bloom-day-december-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Oxalis<\/a>

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

Well, here I am a day late and dollar short. \u00a0We’ve had a lot of winter cold going around here, both in our bodies and outside so I just totally blitzed out on Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day<\/a> yesterday. \u00a0It’s compounded by the state of the outdoors which is very wintery and anything but flower-filled.<\/p>\n

\"Dwarf<\/a>

Dwarf Mugo Pine and the world outside<\/p><\/div>\n

Many of our early bloomers are still buried in snow so I’ve no idea what they are doing for prepping for spring. \u00a0We did pick a Japanese Quince for forcing and it certainly was far enough along to blossom.<\/p>\n

\"Japanese<\/a>

Japanese Quince (forced)<\/p><\/div>\n

But the general state of the outdoors has fewer flowers than I ever remember for this time of year. \u00a0Even the reliable red fall camellia has a only a few scatter flowers well hidden on the inside of the bush at the moment.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>

Red Camellia sasanqua still in blossom<\/p><\/div>\n

The Pink double-flowered Camellia japonica has tried to flower unsuccessfully.<\/p>\n

\"Pink<\/a>

Pink Camellia trying to bloom<\/p><\/div>\n

Things like the Witch Hazel and Edgeworthia seem to be a long way from flowering.<\/p>\n

\"Edgeworthia<\/a>

Edgeworthia in bud<\/p><\/div>\n

In the greenhouse the oxalis are still putting on a pretty show with a single Narcissus helping them out.<\/p>\n

\"Oxalis<\/a>

Oxalis purpurea ‘Skar’<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Oxalis<\/a>

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

\"Oxalis<\/a>

Oxalis purpurea ‘Cherry’<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Oxalis<\/a>

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

\"Oxalis<\/a>

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

\"Narcissus<\/a>

Narcissus cantabricus ‘Silver Palace’<\/p><\/div>\n

There is even a leftover lantana which contributing to the blooms in the greenhouse.<\/p>\n

\"Lantana\"<\/a>

Lantana<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, that’s it until we get some kind of thaw. \u00a0Every year it’s a different story for the wintertime…<\/p>\n

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Well, here I am a day late and dollar short. \u00a0We’ve had a lot of winter cold going around here, both in our bodies and outside so I just totally blitzed out on Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day yesterday. \u00a0It’s compounded by the state of the outdoors which is very wintery and anything but flower-filled. Many of our early bloomers are still buried in snow so I’ve no idea what they are doing for prepping for spring. \u00a0We did pick a Japanese Quince for forcing and it certainly was far enough along to blossom. But the general state of the outdoors […]<\/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-3810","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\/3810","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=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3824,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/3824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}