My Morning Glory Adventures continued..

does anyone know what this tri leaved plant is? I plant seeds here and then transplant them.. this is VINING

monarda ready to bloom

good lord.. bees and bugs!

coreopsis

shasta daisy

can't remember the name f this.. it grows everywhere... now I call this invasive.. but I keep some of it here and there

Wow debra... i have really enjoyed this thread... you have a wonderful garden with lots of wonderful things going on... i love that Jay type bird... and your Robins look much bigger than ours :-)) lovely....

Thanks, Colin.. today I went out and wound the pink palm leaf glory around the rose bush away from the setosa, until I can figure out what to do.. that little vine I grew from seed has just gone crazy, thinking of ulling it out and moving it just makes me cringe with fear of losing it.. I just love the setosa, but I see I have it growing elsewhere.. found al kinds of glorys everywhere I forgot about tonight.. and a re-post of kikyo blue sheese I must have been tired..

I also pulled out a bunch f well established vines from the north fence.. my muttering of no tag no stay was repeated about 20 times, I just couldn't let the big one go, so I planted them in a pot with an overcrowded Dahlia dark Angel from the north fence and we will see how they fair.. , cut back some of the violets so the things behind them could get some sun, the bullies.. picked about 30 pods ready to pop open.. trimmed the lobelias for more blooms, cut off seed pods from the big begonias, and the rock harlequin, can't believe I am already collecting seeds, also got some ageratum seeds , found this about to bloom bud on the plantesis..

albivenia has a new leaf

Emmas' Mix is starting to grab the fence

Beckys; blue Jishi X ten ten has another true leaf... it is so pretty!

found this guy behind the pear tree.. my hubby says it is not focussed, but here it is anyway..

finally got the gas meter covered up with plants.., now for the a/c and that dang fence!

cut all the monster violets in front of this north side of the porch..

now I can see these!

and these...

finally got a good shot of my white four o'clock

now maybe I can cover the electric meter and the phone box ... after I cut the violets and pulled out some sedum, i trimmed the four oclocks and the moonflower.. this is a before picture.. will take after pictures later..

old fashioned moonflower otherwise known as devils trumpet or jimson weed(datura white)

then I found this hiding under that.. I will move it and the liatris this fall

then I went to the front yard triangle, I had pulled out all the hundreds of pink primrose out, planted a plumeria, and some small things, and some seeds.. if you look to the right of the plumeria , you will see an I. carnea popped up, I thought what the heck, lets try a mg tree in the front..

up on the porch on a nice plant shelf, I have some things in seed planters, and this raikou is out there still hanging in there for me.. He bloomed

to the right on the bottom is another mg pot I started a few weeks ago.. better get it to the back this weekend..

here are my favorite plant combos I put together from seeds these are on the outskirt of my front porch..

another view of this area.. you can see the Purple Smoke has popped up

and I have this orchid tree baby growing in the middle of all that, the morning glory pole in front, and the morning glory trellis behind it, the oxalis is surrounding it, and it has a bud..

all these are ready for the sale. I am so proud of my seed growouts from this winter.. of course, someone is going to get a morning glory .. theres one in every pot it looks like .. see the lobata?

mini bar rose this evening.. and I bet there are some species behind it there..

closeup of the setosa

snail and slug problems no more, coffee poisons them, been finding them dead everywhere.. will use it in my mix from now on when I spray the soil.. hope to show another mg bloom soon, the pink vine out back in the barrel is ready to open, to bad I have to be at work when it does, maybe I can talk my youngest daughter into taking a shot of that bloom for me since I retrained it to get a better view.. one last shot.. my daylillies from a trade, have no clue what their name is..

Debra - ALL your plants look so green! Your soil must be quite outstanding! I am envious. I have sand and yuck here ... Love your garden pots! Nice combo indeed! You garden just like I do ... a little of this and a little of that and then throw in a few seeds of this or that. LOL!

Unfortunately, I don't get as much variety to germinate and grow as you do. So few plants like my garden beds. I need to hit the lotto is all I can say ... then I could have truck loads of dark black rich garden soil brought in and dumped to fill my garden beds. A girl can dream, right?!!! LOL!

I've heard many states (northern) have some pretty rich soil. It shows!!! :-) Looks like Kansas is one of those states!!!!

Becky.. I have hard red clay.. I have ammended it with leaves year after year, sand , gravel, gypsum, peat, coffee grounds, more coffee grounds, and alot of bags of potting soil.. I still have hard red clay out front in the yard, and to the south , and along the south fence is getting better.. I lay down the leaves and twist it in, sand it, twist it some more, lay cardboard over it, and dump top soil mixed with compost ( leaves) and sand and coffee grounds over and over I do this every year then twist it in with the claw when it rains.. it seems to work.. I know I have sweat alot and hurt alot doing this.. the clay has cracked my basement walls beyond repair, and when it rains it swells, and when it is too dry it shrinks and gets cracks.. here is a morning glory bloom I made out of clay last month or the month before as I was trenching the south garden edge..I had an idea of making these with seeds ( real) in the middle, packaging them with a pic of the plant and giving them out as presents , just put outside and let melt down with seed inside, ( water and rain) and let nature take its course.. what do you think of that idea? LOL

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My gosh! I can't believe you have hard red clay and have amended it so much that you have rich soil now! That's amazing!!! No matter how many times I amend my soil, the sun bakes it and dries all the nutrients right out of it! It feels like a losing battle here ...

Pretty impressive clay Morning Glory bloom! I like your idea! Go for it!

excellent idea Debra... you should deffinately try it out

Today after work, I picke up my grandson ( 15) and we went to eat at a place called Teds' ( turners place) had bison burgers.. went to a movie, and then we went to a field of wild flowers, I gathered up some seeds, and I took him home and came home to a fresh mowed front lawn.. I went out back and immediately started pulling weeds and strays.. I pulled out some already budding huge vines from around the north fence, and felt like crying.. *sigh* plant murderer was all I could say to myself.. every time I pull a plant I cringe and apologise to it. Anyway, I planted 3 george strait seeds in a hanging pot, threw some seeds I had collected from dried pods at the store everyday when I went to do the bank deposti.. ( the workers thought I was the plant caregiver I guess) I went back to work everyday with a pocket of petunia seed pods, little daiseys, verbenas, well, anything that was a dead head and dried up I picked off and took.. so with that mix I went out and scattere them around the new flower bed, planted some more plants still waiting to go in, and transplanted some things out of crowded barrels and pots, to the new garden... I went out front and found my easter lillies had bloomed, and fallen over, so I cut them and they are in a cool vase in the living room smelling lovely/ got those for 2 for a dollar last year after easter, and just stuck them into the ground out front. I am glad I did.
I undwound rebecca AGAIN from the neighboring pot,,and gave her a support stick since she wants more climbing room, even tho she has the whole dang pole she is on already. I found My moonflower vines are vining so I put sticks in them, sprayed the whole yard with kens mix, while Joe mowed the backyard. ( we were dodging each other)
tommorrow it will be a beautiful day, since it is thunder dundering right now with some rain. I havn't taken any new pictures today, but I do have a few I haven't shown from yesterday ..this was about to pop open up in the thread earlier.. Jacobs Cline Monarda.. a fire work display in action

the field bindweed is still going.. I thought I had lost it..

It sort of looks like this one.. ( borrowed picture) but not as pink, this one is a good picture of what I am going after Tuesday on my field trip to cherokee county to look for wild flowers, with my grandson to accompany me. I can't wait!

I'm enjoying your thread very much, and I also "appologize" to plants that have to be removed, as well as spiders that find their way int the house lol.

love this thread Debra... those flowers look like C. arvensis to my inexperienced eye.. and i like both colours...
i also cannot kill anything without at least a small pang of guilt... i'm either silly or soppy or both and i don't mind which :-) i pulled a vine seedling from it's pot the other day as it had twined around the plant i was moving... i felt so terrible at the time, i stuck it in some water with a little peroxide and it's rooting away nicely.. so i feel a little vindicated at least... however, i must admit to having less to no problems at all with slugs, snails and bindweed :-)....lol