{"id":549,"date":"2008-12-30T13:23:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T20:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=549"},"modified":"2008-12-31T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T21:21:34","slug":"2008-year-in-review-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"2008 Year in review (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might want to start with Part 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

July<\/strong><\/p>\n

July started with a rare vacation away from home, to my brother’s lake house to celebrate my Dad’s 80th. On the boat with my sister Cheryl and wife Elly …<\/p>\n

\"cheryl,<\/p>\n

With Cheryl and Alex after a good morning of striper fishing.<\/p>\n

\"striper<\/a><\/p>\n

Back home, it’s midsummer and there are lots of great serendipitous plant combos<\/a> to enjoy, in the wet garden …<\/p>\n

\"wet<\/a><\/p>\n

… and front garden.<\/p>\n

\"wet<\/a><\/p>\n

Enough plant material to do bloom day scans<\/a> in four different color schemes.<\/p>\n

\"wet<\/a><\/p>\n

Out in the garden, lilies<\/a> …<\/p>\n

\"wet<\/a><\/p>\n

The rusty favorite, Digitalis ferruginea<\/a><\/p>\n

\"wet<\/a><\/p>\n

Exploring backlighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"wet<\/a><\/p>\n

Lots of gaudy flowers to shoot. Hibsicus at Cornell Plantations …<\/p>\n

\"weekend<\/a><\/p>\n

Filipendula.<\/p>\n

\"weekend<\/a><\/p>\n

Lily<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Plus my 15 minutes of fame<\/a> in USA Weekend.<\/p>\n

August<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jade rolling under a double rainbow ’bout sums up my feelings about August.<\/p>\n


\nLarger image.<\/a><\/p>\n

They say things start slowing down in the garden in August. Can’t say I’ve noticed that. There’s lots growing around the patio, but still not much time to sit.<\/p>\n

\"sunday<\/a><\/p>\n

Still plenty of flowers to shoot, including Daylilies, purple …<\/p>\n

\"sunday<\/a><\/p>\n

… and yellow …<\/p>\n

\"bloom<\/a><\/p>\n

… Rosa<\/em> ‘Princess Di’ …
\n\"bloom<\/a><\/p>\n

… buttonbush …<\/p>\n

\"sunday<\/a><\/p>\n

…globe thistle …<\/p>\n

\"sunday<\/a><\/p>\n

… water lily …<\/p>\n

\"sunday<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the bloom day scans<\/a> for the month.<\/p>\n

\"bloom<\/a><\/p>\n

I also defended heucheras<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"heucheras\"<\/a><\/p>\n

August has nice sunsets, too.<\/p>\n

\"sunset\"<\/a><\/p>\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK. The pace does start to slow in September. But it’s still one of the best times of year in these parts, if not the most floriferous.<\/p>\n

The colors are more subtle, like this anemone.<\/p>\n

\"purples<\/a><\/p>\n

My favorite bloom day scan<\/a> featured grasses, not blooms.<\/p>\n

\"sept<\/a><\/p>\n

I featured my four (that’s a stretch) water gardens<\/a> in the month’s Garden Bloggers Design Workshop.<\/p>\n

\"water<\/a><\/p>\n

And on a rainy day, I discovered blingee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"blingee<\/p>\n

October<\/strong><\/p>\n

October is the month of frost and fall color. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some flowers around, like my fall favorites, anemones.<\/p>\n

\"secret<\/a><\/p>\n

Abutilon pictum<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThompsonii\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n

\"some<\/a><\/p>\n

Grasses carry the weight in October.<\/p>\n

\"grassy<\/a><\/p>\n

Fall colors start coming with Polygonatum odoratum \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcVariegatum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <\/a><\/p>\n

\"Polygonatum<\/a><\/p>\n

Ivy outside campus store.
\n\"campus<\/a><\/p>\n

First frosts<\/a> provide great photo opps …
\nAsian pear in the veggie garden.<\/p>\n

\"2008<\/a><\/p>\n

Pitcher plant<\/p>\n

\"2008<\/a><\/p>\n

Backlit grasses usher in brown season.
\n\"fall<\/a><\/p>\n

November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fall color is where you find it, like this pitcher plant …<\/p>\n

\"Sarracenia<\/a><\/p>\n

… and this bittersweet and borrowed scenery.<\/p>\n

\"borrowed<\/a><\/p>\n

When there’s less to see looking down, you appreciate more the view looking up.<\/p>\n

\"skywatch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

January came in November [impressions<\/a> | the real thing<\/a>]<\/p>\n


\n\"jan<\/a><\/p>\n

I visited the Winter Garden at Cornell Plantations<\/a> as the light was waning.<\/p>\n

\"winter<\/a><\/p>\n

December<\/strong><\/p>\n

Check out the student projects<\/a> from Cornell’s Art of Horticulture class.<\/p>\n

Glowing greenhouses make leaving work after dark a little less depressing during these SAD-inducing months.<\/p>\n

\"ugly<\/a><\/p>\n

And I’ve now got a passable scan for December<\/a> for my planned 2010 garden scan calendar.<\/p>\n

\"december<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks for visiting and commenting. Best wishes for the New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might want to start with Part 1. July July started with a rare vacation away from home, to my brother’s lake house to celebrate my Dad’s 80th. On the boat with my sister Cheryl and wife Elly … With Cheryl and Alex after a good morning of striper fishing. Back home, it’s midsummer and … Continue reading “2008 Year in review (Part 2)”<\/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":[11,13,14,47,15,20,10,5,2,23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annuals","category-art","category-biennials","category-bulbs","category-containers","category-design","category-perennials","category-phenology","category-water-garden","category-weather","category-woodies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","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=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}