Heavenly Blue Morning Glory

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No.  This isn’t a current picture.  It’s a Heavenly Blue morning glory in bloom taken at the end of August 2003.

None of these grew last year because the blues can’t seem to compete with the pink and purples on their own.  This year I heavily seeded Heavenly Blues.  The banner photo shows a Heavenly Blue vine sprouting.  The Heavenly Blues can be distinguished by the heavy purplish veins on the leaf.  Knowing what the seedling looks like allows me to help them against the purples and greens.

Here‘s another pic taken years ago.

Moonflower sprouts

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The first moon flower sprouts.  Moon flower vines produce  large white flowers that bloom at night after dusk in late August. I didn’t get any moon flowers last year — probably because I didn’t plant any. Over the years however I have observed that moon flowers can be picky about sprouting. It’s nice to see a sprout.

Out of focus in the forefront is a sunflower. These are sprouting all over now. This is the veranda north wall box.

Here‘s a pic of a moon flower in bloom taken in 2004.

NE corner main roof status

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The white box in the corner is badly collapsed and needs replacing.  Huge snapdragons are growing out of the sides however and I don’t want to disturb them this year.  I don’t know how snapdragons can get so large since I thought they grew from seed every year.

The debris clump in the forefront is in its second year and starting to get green growth.  The plant skeletons were put in this year.  This debris clump sits at the top of the roof so it gets the least amount of water of all clumps during rains.   I suspect  that won’t matter since any rain will completely saturate it anyway.  In other words, the water going under a debris clump will only matter if that’s part of the irrigation system.

New SE corner planter

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This new planter was built last year out of wood from a futon frame no one wanted.  There are no holes in the bottom; water must drain through  cracks in wood connections.  We’ll see how well that works.