Early Frost

Well, I was hoping for a later frost this year. The garden just sat there during the dry spell. We watered it enough to keep it alive, but there was no production during the hot, hot months. When we started to have cooler nights, the garden got in gear with production. However, that made for late ripe and the early frost was NOT welcome.

The rains have returned to our corner of the world, and the Mandevilla blossoms were drooping when we took this photo. It is such a happy vine with it's blooms pointing toward the sun when the clouds clear. I will trim the vine to release it from the arbor and bring it indoors for the winter. DH (Dear Hubby) is not all that happy to be sharing indoors with my many plants. He COULD assemble the greenhouse he gave me for my birthday last April... but alas, it is still in the box on the edge of the patio.

First day of Fall, Already?!!!

The sweet potato vine that tried to take over the patio

Donya has become our resident patio gardener and filled many containers with flowers, vegetables and vines. One of the sweet potato vines went crazy this year. It shares a container with several other blooming plants, with a gnome statue residing IN the barrel next to the baby vine. Within 3 weeks we could not see the gnome, so he was but on the cement in front of the planter... a couple more weeks and he had to be moved forward.. then forward again. Soon he was 6 feet in front of the crazily growing vine.  Yup, he is still in there, somewhere. That is just one vine. I wonder if cuttings could be taken to use as starts for the next year patio plantings.