{"id":322,"date":"2009-05-27T09:26:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T14:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2010-02-15T17:53:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:53:44","slug":"transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/2009\/05\/27\/transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The grotto pond area is taking shape nicely with the addition of plants in and around the pond. We put a Mexican papyrus, a blue-green sedge, and a ribbon grass into pots and placed them on rock shelves in the pond. I also scattered ivy, creeping thyme, potato vine, and white impatiens into the rocks surrounding the pond. And I placed some potted plants around the perimeter of the grotto to soften the edges and to add more green to the area.
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Grotto Pond With Plants Installed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Grotto Pond From Above<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mexican Papyrus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trailing Succulent on Retaining Wall Behind Grotto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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White Impatiens Beside Grotto Pond<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nThe courtyard is transitioning from its spring look into its summer appearance. The knock out roses continue to push out new foliage and canes along with a continuous show of blooms. The caldwell pink and fairy roses now have their first wave of blooms, and the new dawn and Belinda’s dream are blooming as well. I transplanted a Zexmenia that had been growing where the retaining wall was built into the north courtyard bed next to a pink knock out rose, and it is looking very happy with its new home. The echinacea are sending up blooms, and I planted some yellow and dark purple petunias, and a yellow osteospermum for added color. Clearly spring is almost over here, and summer will be in full swing soon.
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Courtyard From Above<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Courtyard From Above<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Courtyard From Above<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Courtyard From Above<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yellow and Purple Petunias<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zexmenia and Pink Knock Out Rose<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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New Dawn, Knock Out, and Caldwell Pink Roses<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nThis dietes bicolor was a gift from one of our clients. I like the creamy color of the blooms and the dark green spiky foliage.
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Close Up of Dietes Bicolor Bloom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nSome of the other new plant installations include caldiums, impatiens, and begonias in the shady front porch bed, begonias, potato vine, and impatiens in the shady backyard zen garden, and chandler strawberries.
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Zen Garden in the Morning<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bamboos, Begonias, Impatiens and Potato Vines in Zen Garden<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Caladiums and Begonias in Front Porch Bed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chandler Strawberry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nNow I need to spend some time running drip irrigation to all these new plants. Otherwise I will be spending my time watering all summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This native Texas clematis has benefitted from the nice spring rains that we have been having. It has more blooms on it this year than it has had in the past ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,7,16],"tags":[261,262,186,345,347,260,5,259],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-gardening","category-landscaping","category-native-plants","tag-begonias","tag-caladiums","tag-clematis","tag-gardening","tag-landscaping","tag-petunias","tag-roses","tag-zexmenia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phuiL-5c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}