{"id":283,"date":"2007-11-15T18:22:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T01:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=283"},"modified":"2009-02-14T18:36:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T01:36:45","slug":"in-lieu-of-bloom-day-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"In lieu of bloom day scans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I attended a lecture by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felderrushing.net\/\">Felder Rushing<\/a>, who is neck-and-neck with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oudolf.com\/\">Piet Oudolf<\/a> in the race for most influential gardener in my life.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of his presentation, Felder wanted to point out that not only were we crazy plant people, but we were strange even by standards of gardeners in general.  He asked for a show of hands to a series of questions starting with, <em>How many of you grow more than a dozen varieties of a single species of plants?<\/em>  More than half gardeners in attendence raised thier hands<\/p>\n<p>The question that really got me was, <em>How many of you have ever given a tour of your garden by flashlight?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, honestly I haven&#8217;t.  But I wouldn&#8217;t hesitate to.<\/p>\n<p>If I wanted to do my usual bloom-day scans, I would have had to use a flashlight because light is pretty scarce around here before and after work.  Bloom day scans will have to wait for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve had a bunch frosty and fall-color pix collecting here over the past couple of weeks.  So instead of scans, here&#8217;s a chance for my usual pix purge.<\/p>\n<p>Really hard frost (~19 F) last Sunday:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/grasses_and_frost2x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/grasses_and_frost2x500.jpg\" alt=\"frost on grasses etc.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunrise has hit the far ridge, but hasn&#8217;t hit the garden yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/grasses_and_frostx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/grasses_and_frostx500.jpg\" alt=\"frost on grasses etc.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frost patterns in the miscanthus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/frost_white_grassx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/frost_white_grassx500.jpg\" alt=\"frost on grasses etc.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frozen monard dots.  (Thanks Piet.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/monarda_frostx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/monarda_frostx500.jpg\" alt=\"frost on grasses etc.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jade and the plants soak in the sun as it burns off the frost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/jade_grass_frostx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/jade_grass_frostx500.jpg\" alt=\"frost on grasses etc.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beads of water after the sun melts the frost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/grass_melt_frostx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/grass_melt_frostx500.jpg\" alt=\"frost on grasses etc.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morning sun on Solomon&#8217;s seal (Polygonatum)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/polygonatum_goldx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/polygonatum_goldx500.jpg\" alt=\"frost on grasses etc.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miscanthus floridulus flowered this year, at least 12 feet tall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/m_florid_flowerx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/m_florid_flowerx500.jpg\" alt=\"frost on grasses etc.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Cornell, &#8216;We grow the Ivy.&#8217;  It turns red in the fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/red_ivyx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/red_ivyx500.jpg\" alt=\"frost on grasses etc.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scans this weekend, if I can find some time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I attended a lecture by Felder Rushing, who is neck-and-neck with Piet Oudolf in the race for most influential gardener in my life. At the beginning of his presentation, Felder wanted to point out that not only were we crazy plant people, but we were strange even by standards of gardeners &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=283\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In lieu of bloom day scans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perennials","category-phenology","category-bloom-day-scans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}