journey11
Garden Master
My Heavenly Blue morning glories are finally blooming! I have a few that are taking over my porch (planted them there for evening shade) that are making buds, but still waiting on the bloom. I was beginning to wonder if they were going to make it before frost. I did plant them about a month later than I could have, but man, they've made me wait forever!
I've been really happy with my flowerbeds this year. I hadn't put so much effort into them in the previous 2 summers we've lived here because there's been so many things needing done as we've settled in.
I put in a new flowerbed between the house and the garage this year. The spot just begged for color. The grass was a real pain in the behind to get rid of though. The rock path in the background is new too.
This petunia is one I grew from seed that I saved from one that serendipitously popped up in my garden last year and it came back true. I like it a lot and it seems to have carried over the "wave" growing habit. I guess you'd call it a "silver" color.
I planted lots of Angel Trumpets (datura) around this side porch where we mostly come and go from the house. They open at night and if the day is not too hot they'll stay open most of the day. They smell wonderful!
These are some "Christmas Lights" ornamental peppers I grew from seed I found at the fairgrounds. They make for such nice fall color. I didn't expect them to bush out so large though.
Here's my bamboo "tee-pee" of scarlet runner beans I got in a trade from HiDelight (miss you on here HiD, wherever you are!) All my neighbors are begging me for seeds from them.
Don't know why most people shun Cypress Vine. I know it can be invasive, but if you plant it where you can easily hit the seedlings with the lawnmower or weedeater, I think it's striking color contrast is so worth it. Mine is on my fenceline. The hummingbirds seem to like it too.
My garden is really winding down now. I still have peppers and eggplants going strong. A few tomatoes are left that I didn't pull out. I had a lot of trouble this year with some wierd pink fungus that caused the fruit to rot so quickly. :/ My beans are really putting out. I've been picking about 6 gallons every few days. I've cut a lot of bouquets off the sunflowers and gave many away, so they are still blooming for me. The birds are enjoying the free food. About 3/4 of my garden I've tilled under and planted buckwheat for my bees for some late fall forage. I LOVE to look out on the wild morning glories climbing my corn/pole beans. (They are still unconquered dispite constant weeding.) The color is really something else, eyepopping shades of violet and pink.
Well, that is what's still growing in my neck of the woods. I hadn't posted much on here lately (been really quiet on here, we're all so busy harvesting!) Thought I'd share a few pics.
I've been really happy with my flowerbeds this year. I hadn't put so much effort into them in the previous 2 summers we've lived here because there's been so many things needing done as we've settled in.
I put in a new flowerbed between the house and the garage this year. The spot just begged for color. The grass was a real pain in the behind to get rid of though. The rock path in the background is new too.
This petunia is one I grew from seed that I saved from one that serendipitously popped up in my garden last year and it came back true. I like it a lot and it seems to have carried over the "wave" growing habit. I guess you'd call it a "silver" color.
I planted lots of Angel Trumpets (datura) around this side porch where we mostly come and go from the house. They open at night and if the day is not too hot they'll stay open most of the day. They smell wonderful!
These are some "Christmas Lights" ornamental peppers I grew from seed I found at the fairgrounds. They make for such nice fall color. I didn't expect them to bush out so large though.
Here's my bamboo "tee-pee" of scarlet runner beans I got in a trade from HiDelight (miss you on here HiD, wherever you are!) All my neighbors are begging me for seeds from them.
Don't know why most people shun Cypress Vine. I know it can be invasive, but if you plant it where you can easily hit the seedlings with the lawnmower or weedeater, I think it's striking color contrast is so worth it. Mine is on my fenceline. The hummingbirds seem to like it too.
My garden is really winding down now. I still have peppers and eggplants going strong. A few tomatoes are left that I didn't pull out. I had a lot of trouble this year with some wierd pink fungus that caused the fruit to rot so quickly. :/ My beans are really putting out. I've been picking about 6 gallons every few days. I've cut a lot of bouquets off the sunflowers and gave many away, so they are still blooming for me. The birds are enjoying the free food. About 3/4 of my garden I've tilled under and planted buckwheat for my bees for some late fall forage. I LOVE to look out on the wild morning glories climbing my corn/pole beans. (They are still unconquered dispite constant weeding.) The color is really something else, eyepopping shades of violet and pink.
Well, that is what's still growing in my neck of the woods. I hadn't posted much on here lately (been really quiet on here, we're all so busy harvesting!) Thought I'd share a few pics.
Not sure why, because I've seen it around, but that's one weed that I've not (yet) been cursed with in my garden. I guess there are a few colorful perennial morning glories, but I couldn't find a pic of one. The purple and pink ones in my garden are not perennial, but I tell you what--I've pulled them up faithfully for 3 years now and they still manage to sneak in. By this point in the season, I've pulled enough of them to keep them from choking everything out, but there's always a couple hiding in among my tomatoes or corn and you don't realize they are there until they bloom. I think they must go to seed very quickly or the seed lives in the soil for many years and pops up the second you cultivate. Just can't seem to get them ALL. 
