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Even though the high temperatures of 2009<\/a> stand out in my garden memories, this summer of 2014 will be remembered as a “real” summer. In fact, it is already the hottest summer on record<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s been a stellar season for the garden this year. The gardenias<\/a> bloomed for about 2 months.<\/p>\n Gardenia jasminoides “Kleim’s Hardy”<\/p><\/div>\n The jasmine, weigela, lantana bushes, orange peel jessamine and kerria japonica are still blooming. The flowering quince had a second round of blooms.<\/p>\n Cosmos “Diablo”<\/p><\/div>\n The Heptacodium miconoides (Seven Son Flower)<\/a> and diablo cosmos are just getting going. The sunflowers<\/a> came and are spent now. I have never seen so many buds on my camellia sasanqua “yuletide”<\/a>, promising an abundant winter bloom.<\/p>\n The huckleberry bushes are loaded with berries and they have never been bigger and fatter than they are this year – AND THE BEES<\/em>!!!!! I don’t remember seeing such a multitude of so many kinds of bees in quite a few years.<\/p>\n All of this would not have happened without the exceptionally warm and sunny summer combined with regular watering.<\/p>\n Now it’s time to harvest those huckleberries, prune and pull a few more weeds once the ground is moist again. Every year I have a vision of a perfectly weeded and pruned garden (in which I also planted legions of bulbs) that is just waiting for me to come back in the spring and plant more. If only I actually got all of that done before the rain and cold come back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even though the high temperatures of 2009 stand out in my garden memories, this summer of 2014 will be remembered as a “real” summer. In fact, it is already the hottest summer on record. It’s been a stellar season for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[434,22,59,337,316],"class_list":["post-10950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-your-garden","tag-for-your-garden","tag-plants","tag-seattle","tag-summer-garden","tag-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10950"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11003,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950\/revisions\/11003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Gardenia](\"https:\/\/freshbynorthwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gardenia-with-bee-2014.jpg\")
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