My Morning Glory Adventures continued.. Three

Ugh on your daytime temps! Whew!

It rained again this evening! YAY! The little bit of rain we've had this week have helped to cool things down a bit. I had blooms today, but didn't bother to take any photos. Nothing different than the usual. I don't have the variety of plants growing that you do Debra! You've got some awesome species growing everywhere in your garden and pots! Pretty dang cool!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TROPICMAN! hope your day was great!

102 degrees Debra... phew!

Rain last night finally.. gosh wasn't I just complaining about the rain a few weeks ago? Temps go up and then we want the rain back, go figger.. was a great week last week with the trip to Tropicmans' place to visit being the start.. his yard looks like a tropical paradise....

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out front, in the winter sowing planter, I found my obscura had come out for me. I had forgotten all about it.. you can still see the plastic water bottle it started in sunk into the pot..

we wnt to the botanical gardens today, my DH surprised me, since I couldn't drive to Topeka to see the water garden tour with Joyce, and my youngest DD Joanna went with us.. there I found this plant called "Evolvulus"

I am going to go out back tommorrow and look at that one ground glory again and compare.. If it doesn't look like this, I am pulling it out..

neighbor down the street has two very old and very tall magnolia trees.. the blooms are wonderful and smell very nice.. this one was at the Botanical Garden here, and it is the same kind, and is about 30 ft tall.. I need one of these I have decided..

When we came home, I took a nap, woke up at 6 and went out back, I immediately went back in for my camera.. I had butterflys everywhere, but this one caught my eye

My hummers were about as well, but I just couldn't get a shot.. this shot is my favorite of this Butterfly today.. Yesterday after work, I went to my sons place, tended to the plants I planted, and floated around on a raft in the water, all by myself, caught a craw dad, scooped up swamp grass and used it to mulch the vines and tmatoes there.. found a flast cement slab with a long rope tied to it, used it as a climbing train for the setosas, mg alba, and other vines growing there.. it will look great later this summer..

This is the south east part of my house.. the mg pots are forming curtains already..I have squirrel netting up for them to climb on.. its' cheap, you can cut it to any size, and invisible.. when the day lillies and daiseys are down, the mums will be there and the black eyed susan, and on the other side of the wall there is a gloriosa lilly climbing as well as more kinds of mgs and some lions tail ... it will look good from the front.

the south garden bed is only a year old this being the second year.... the coreopsis has been cut already, the four clocks and daiseys are next to bloom, and the carpet of snow and allysium is jjst now peeking up.. there is also a few caster beans back there.. chinese bean hyacynth and mgs of couurse, will need vining trainers, they are up and vining now, , just need to go out and get them put up.. while I was wandering around this am in my night gown, I must have upset some chiggers, as they have chewed me up from ankle to thigh, and now I am all covered with glitter nail poilish, just in time for the 4th BBq parties I have been invited too.. HA! I just could't wait to see what I usually miss when I am working, and didn't put the watkins cream on and didn't get dressed first.. just so I could see an mg bloom? OWWW I itch.. so my DH goes and gets me some chigger rid.. one ingredient? Ammonia. I have a gallon of it for 1.78 in my cabinet, he paid 3.79 for the chigger rid pen. I about croaked. Didn't notice the bites until they started itching, which was tonight.

I also found this MG growing I started in winter.. gosh I have alot of plants I forget about.. this is in the front behind the big red bushes, in front of my daughters bedroom window and in front of the rock garden.. I will move it I guess.. need to look around the water bottle planter to see what I wrote on it like I did with the obscura...

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This is the front vine corner of my front porch, southeast corner.. this pot had the lobata in it over winter.. now it has about 8 different types of vines growing in it, and the alba and chilean jasmine I planted in a pot right behind it.. these are facing east, and there is a honey suckle canopy above them, and behind that trellis post is the coral vine pot , the passion vine pot, and the porcelain vine pot all vining as well..

here is a better view of what I just described, and george straight, wild red, and a few others are there as well.. you can see the red bushes I was talking about.. and the nice thing is, the prenneil pots in front of those vines are really my pride and joy, as everything in them are from seeds ..

This is the North end of the front porch, Maya Brug and my mothers' day hibiscos tree there, as well as all the little pots from seeds I have started , and the mg and lobata pots..the cuppea plant in the basket is called little mice.. under that black seed tray is a nice fat 14 inch red and black garden snake, 5 black beetles, 2 snails, and a spider.. I know cuz Thats what I found when I was re=arranging and transplanting yesterday morning.. spider scooted off, beetles went scattering and the snails I squished with my rock there, and the snake and I Played for awhile, took him in to show DD, then let him go in the south part of the porch garden.. the coleus there and the lobatas and all are from seeds.. waiting for the glads and the freesia to bloom.

different shot.. we just missed a huge red bloom on the Hib Tree.. Maya has not changed since winter..

In the corner of the porch are the tropicals from trades.. that angel wing begonia has a bloom, she has been divided three times for trades since she was over wintered ...the shelf was full, but I have been giving away things lately.. those easter lilly blooms are seeding is why they are still there, and the table is loaded with seed heads from the front gardens..that is my favorite vase from Dear Pauline.. who I miss dearly.. it was loaded up with dames Rockets earlier this year, and Raikou was in there as well.. speaking of.. He gave me one last bloom earlier last week, as way of saying goodbye, and it looks like a seed pod may be coming..

Here is the front triangle garden I put in about 7 years ago.. this used be an area of cedar shrubs and I hated it.. I used to fill it with one colour of annuals of something every year.. then I started tulips with annuals on top, but the cost to fill this area grew to be almost 400.00 a year , so I started with prenneils last year, this was loaded with pink primrose earlier this spring, but I pulled them out to make room for the emergin new Purple monardas and the two year old liatris.. this is where there are two I. Careas planted, two Brugsmanisa seedlings and one plumeria from a trade in the center.. all in here.. I always keep in mind what dies down and have seeds planted to fill in, there are pentas, petunias, begonias, imatiens, marigolds and zinninas in here sprouted.. these tall plants will last about a month.. then the seeds will be up and going by then..

This has just opened in the big prenniel pot on the other side..

so pretty... I love these cosmos..

here is the corner of the south side of the Porch, those brugs were over wintered .. the easter lillies were here, and the rose trellis and honey suckle just got cut back to make sunshine fr the mgs in the long planter on the other side, and there is a chalis vine from an over wintered trade in the far back corner.. it has to grow tall to reach the sun that way..there is a method to my madness sometimes.. the rock garden in front of that corner has all kinds of things in it, but I am very excited about the yellow pear catus thatis budded, all the little pots are supposed to be going away for a sale soon.. so I have some seeds already planted where they sit..

Here is the rock Garden, and my little bath tub planter..

I went out to turn off the yard light ( we do it manually ..Take top off and unscrew bulb... lol) those bushes have thorns, but I am used to them.. I got a surprise this am.. can you see what surprised me?

My hubby is like ... what do you have growing in the bushes out front? I told him, what do they look like>? duh! I said"those bushes are needing to be trimmed down dear, then maybe things wouldn't climb so hard for the sun!"
He isn't trimming them now.. I have blooms on them LOL

why did I get up so early, , get bit up, lose sleep, and wander around the yard this morning armed with my camera? Morning glorys, beautiful ..brief... exciting ...morning glorys..
Jamie Lynn on the neighbors' side of course, I had t almost hop the fence to get this shot, no wonder I am bit up.. worth it tho..

This one was on my patio, tagged lavender purple by Liz.. but I couldn't SEE it very well as it climbed the pole so high..

I tried another angle.. still couldn't get a clear shot even with my camera holding it way up and pointed downwards.. they all turned out blurred... but this profile is nice

Debra - I LOVE the MGs in your hedges! How pretty! That's a great idea!!!!

I also love all the nooks and crannies you have plants growing in! You are the gardening BOMB, girl!!!

Debra, thank you for letting us visit your garden. I love it, especially that brick wall with MG growing up in the corner. I didn't know it would climb on brick.

OK. This is the craziest thing and I know you probably can't tell from the leaves, but I planted some MG's and did not label them, but I am pretty positive I did not germinate any Moonvine in this planter. The leaves are HUGE! and I can not wait to see what kind of flowers I am going to get. It is growing gangbuster, climbing up my pergola, winding around my strings of lights.

Can you tell if these are MG leaves or moonvine???

Here is a leaf compared to my hand

And I just love these! I believe I posted photos already but the flower was about 6 inches wide and the color on photo doesn't do justice - a velvety grape purple. I believe it is a Akatsuki no Murasaki (forgive me if I spell it wrong). Too lazy to look up.

Akatsuki no Murasaki was one of my faves last year. Your photo captures its color well, and your description is right on target.

I have another JMG and it has the same variegated spade-shape leaves. I will have to look at the label tomorrow to see what it is.

that is a beautiful flower! Lucky you! All my I. Purpurea leaves on the north fence are the size of dinner plates.. my moon vines are going gang busters, but my pride of the moment is about to bloom, and I hope I don't miss it..

a shot with the leaves

the whole plant and it is loaded with buds

What is that? It has very unusual leaves.

That is a a caudex plant called I. Plantesis... the leaves on your plant you posted look like mine I have growing from Joseph here..