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hyacinth bean vine

Vines of all kinds …

The cooler nights are starting to affect the vines, so I thought I’d get a few more pictures before they fade away for the season.

I need to go harvest those Coneflower seeds just to the right of this morning glory.
Can you tell I love blue and purple vines?
This mandavilla is so happy here. Too bad it won’t come back after winter.
These scraggly guys are behind the fence.
This Cypress Vine will have to be cut back with a machete when it dies for the winter!

This Tangerine Beauty Crossvine is so not supposed to be blooming now! It’s an early Spring bloomer. I think it’s blooming because it’s just so happy that the heat has finally abated and we’ve gotten a little rare rain.
This Purple Hyacinth Bean vine is loving the rain – it’s been a sindly stalk all summer and now it’s bursting with blooms and beans.

What’s your favorite vine?

By |2016-04-14T02:42:39-05:00October 2nd, 2009|Blog, cross vine, hyacinth bean vine, mandavilla, Morning Glory, Sharing Nature's Garden|0 Comments
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beans, beans, and a potato…


In spite of the heat that’s bearing down on us and our plants, Mother Nature has a job to do, and do it she does. They might be thirsty and hot and sweaty, but my plants continue to bloom and amazingly, have enough energy left over to make seeds for the next generation to go on.

Pretty amazing, to me.

So, here are some of the lovely seed pods that have just popped up in my garden in the last week or so.

The first is the stunningly beautiful Pride of Barbados that is one of my very favorite plants.  It’s exotic and delicate and hot and colorful all at the same time.  It’s hearty and fern-like and it brings a smile to my face when it finally shows its true colors late in the summer.

These are my Hyacinth Bean Vines, with their leather-y purple pods that look good enough to eat!

My prolific Coral Trumpet Vine makes these huge seed pods, but then again, this specimen is pretty darn big and woody, and I think it would take over the cabana if I let it.
This, gardening friends, is a real bean!  A green bush bean in my veggie garden.  I liek to call the seed pods beans and take a little license with gardening lingo, since they do look like beans!
This Esperanza or Tecoma Stans, is full of slender, little green pods – hundreds of them – waiting to drop and start life all over again deep under the mulch this winter.

Ok, THIS is your laugh for the day.  I kept seeing this big, smooth pink orb poking out of the potato vine in my front pots.  Thought it was a river rock from the dry bed, wondered if I’d stuck it in there for some reason when I planted the vine.
Seriously.
I thought this for weeks!
Today, as I was removing dead plants and adding a few fresh ones, it hit me like a V-8 POP on the forehead!
It’s a POTATO!!!!!!!
Duh.
Double Duh!
Sigh….I am not only not in charge, I am clearly clueless!
I never saw an actual potato on a decorative potato vine that I’d planted before.
I mean, there are some plants that are named after things that they are not, right?
Well, at least I get points for posting it out there for you all to laugh WITH me about!
By |2016-04-14T02:45:10-05:00August 26th, 2008|Blog, green beans, hyacinth bean vine, potato, seeds, Sharing Nature's Garden, trumpet vine|0 Comments
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A few of my favorite things…

This is a little peek into the small bed I created this Spring for the Day Lilies.  It’s outside of one of our breakfast room windows, and shares the space with our air conditioners, but it’s turned out delightful.  The corner is nurturing three Cassia’s which will soon be in beautiful bloom.  In the center is a Hyacinth Bean vine, and the left corner is home to a Variegated Hibiscus.
On the lower right side are two Indigo Spires, trying to hide the lattice fence around the air conditioners.
And this is one of my two Durantas just across the walkway from the hibiscus.  

I have to say, the Lilies have not turned out to be what I imagined.  There only seem to be two colors, when I’d ordered 4 distinctly different colors and two heights of each, at that.  Just another reminder that I’m not in charge…when it comes to Mother Nature, or catalog orders, for that matter!
In spite of the heat and drought, I hand water this little bed frequently and it looks lush and lovely and makes me happy when I am sitting at the table.  It’s my little corner of paradise these days!
By |2017-11-29T23:27:53-06:00August 14th, 2008|Blog, daylily, duranta, hibiscus, hyacinth bean vine, Sharing Nature's Garden|0 Comments
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