My cousin got me some morning glories for my birthday! I’ve seen these vines around. They told me that they were getting big in their yard and then died back during a freeze, so I’ll have to keep an eye on that.
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According to this website morning glories need full sun. There’s not many places in my yard that actually get a full 6 hours of sun.
The website also says that some morning glories are invasive weeds. I don’t know what I have here, but I hope it’s a good kind.
And a quick update on my Peggy Martin and my Jasmine:
So I got this beautiful cabinet off Facebook Marketplace. Didn’t realize until I got it home that it smells like cigarettes.
I tried cleaning it. I really did. Soap, vinegar, polyurethane. I followed this blog post:
The best way to get smoky smells off of wood furniture! Cigarette smoke on wood furniture is awful.Tackle it with these tips!
It still smells a little like smoke, so it’s living outside for now. Maybe forever. But it’s a perfect spot for my gardening supplies, which were just awkwardly in a closet inside.
I told my coworker Penny (who is a rose lover and expert) about my Peggy Martin, and she just lit up. She also gave me some great advice on what I *should* have done with both the rose and the jasmine. I went off her instructions and this video to install screws and gardening wire and to tie up the plants.
I bought screws with a circle on one end and 100ft of green garden wire from Home Depot for about $25
I used a 7/64 drill bit to drill into the posts of my fence and was able to screw in my circle screw thingies pretty easily. There was no real science in my spacing. I just did what looked right. Since I hope to really cover this fence, I put in way more screws than I currently need.
The wire was easy enough to install. Here’s some photos of how I did that.
I’m not positive I tied the plants on exactly correctly. But here they are, nonetheless.
Penny also advised me to dig up the rose and move her. She’s right- it was pretty near where our grill/ sitting area is, and I don’t really want bees right there. So I dug her up and put her further down towards the back corner of the yard. She’ll have lots of space to really spread.
Today I am learning about roses- specifically roses for a hot, shady spot.
My back yard is so unattractive and barren and HOT. I want to put climbing vines along the fences.
One new fact I learned is that there are climbing roses and rambling roses.
climbers grow slower, tend to have larger blooms, and often rebloom throughout the season (which means they can be dead headed). They can be pruned in autumn-spring without affecting flowers
ramblers grow quickly and will have one impressive flush of small blooms in the summer. They can be pruned after their flowers have faded.
We demystify the differences between rambling and climbing roses.
Here are some plants that should tolerate heat and shade:
Zephrine Drouhin roses. These are climbing roses. Bright pink and developed in the late 1800s. They’re said to grow anywhere and can tolerate poor soil and shade. They rebloom spring to fall. People report disease problems with it- especially black spot and powdery mildew
Graham Thomas. Some websites call it a climber and some call it a rambler. It has yellow flowers and can rebloom. Called “The World’s Favorite Rose.” It’s hardy and disease resistant
Prairie rose. This one seems promising because it’s native. Good for hot climates and good for wildlife. It’s a climber with soft, pink 5-petaled flowers
Peggy Martin climbing rose. Apparently named because it survived in Peggy Martin’s garden during hurricane katrina. Now that’s the kind of determined grit I need in a plant! It has pink flowers and can bloom in the spring and then fall.
Today is car clean-out day. I would say I’m having moderate success. The handheld vacuum died only a few minutes into the project, but I got all the trash out and wiped down surfaces. I’ll call this one a success.
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