I love your stakes! I do the same myself with old flower pots from the flower store.
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whenyou say “moonflower” you are talking about Datura, right? jimson weed?
your bunnies were trippin’ balls if they ate them. that shit’s toxic!
edit: love your stakes!
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Moonflower is also common name for a relative of morning glories. Pretty sure these are Ipomoea alba
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cool. TIL, thanks!
although, IIRC, Ipomea (sp) also carry a level of toxicity in the seeds(?)
no! i didn’t armchair study psychopharmacopea of common plants, why do you ask?
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The same thing happened with my moonflowers. Pesky rabbits!
I should start them in bigger pots and then move the whole mess outside when they’re big enough to withstand the buns.
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Yes, that’s it. The seed packet itself doesn’t give any Latin name, but here it is on their website: Moonflower Seeds, White Evening Glory Flower, and there they say the botanical name is Ipomoea. (It also says that a 2-gram packet has approx. 20 seeds, which is a little weird, because I only got 7 seeds in my first (2-gram) packet and 6 in the next packet. I’m assuming a typo on the website, rather than the seeds not being what I have.)
Yes, the website says
Please note - Moonflower seeds are toxic to animals and humans if large quantities are ingested. Keep seeds out of reach of pets and children.
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that is beautiful.
i spent most of last week mounting orchids that the mum brought home from an orchid farm up in Pasco.
some are on palm trees:
and sime on driftwood mahogany:
i really like your choices of wood to mount to!
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Last week I bought a rose-thingy in a pot at the supermarket and it’s doing just fine on the loggia:
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I did my first orchid, was super sad in a pot, so I did this, bit of driftwood (soaked in rainwater for a week) then sphagnum moss, there’s an eyelet screwed into in of the branches, and we’re hanging it in the bathroom from fishing line… some more will be done in the next weeks I think.
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Might be smaller than yours. I planted it as a leaf in September. It took about 3-4 weeks to root; the leaf died a few weeks later. Slow and steady ever since.
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Ugh. We have brown tail moths again this year. They’re more a threat to trees than anything, but the hairs from the caterpillars can cause rashes like poison ivy on some people. They (the caterpillars) keep falling on my patio table.
I haven’t seen any of the moths yet, but it might be time to set up some light traps when things dry out a little bit. Blech.
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The pink ones are so beautiful they look unreal. What are they?
The whole garden looks wonderful 
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Thanks, I wish I could take credit for the garden, but that only thing I planted in that garden is the small red poppy. The pink flowers are also some variety of poppy. They’ve been there for 3 to 5 years now and this year is the biggest I’ve seen them.
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Pink poppies! I thought the flower structure looked so familiar. I’ll have to look up how they’d do around here.
These are the beds in our yard right now. Keep in mind the temp has been over 95 for two weeks and nearly a 100 for 5 days.
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Looks great, flowers seem to be handling the heat well. What are the tall orange flowers next to the sun flowers?
This false indigo is something else I planted.
I don’t have a garden of my own so I just have a few areas where I plant things at my parents. My mom plants most of the gardens that may show up in pictures I take.
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Pride of Barbados. An adapted plant that loves the heat and a bee favorite. It doesn’t like wet soil, but placing it on the hill seems to have solved that issue. We have thick clay soil.
https://bexar-tx.tamu.edu/homehort/archives-of-weekly-articles-davids-plant-of-the-week/pride-of-barbados-a-great-heat-loving-plant-and-future-texas-superstar/
ETA: drip irrigation for the rose bed 4 times a week. With enough water and a bit of afternoon shade, they thrive. No drip irrigation for the other one- so only drought resistant plants in there
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Too bad the Pride of Barbados is a zone 8 and 9, would not survive here. The roses look great, ours aren’t flowering yet, but should be soon.
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