Moonvine
The best thing about moonvines is that you don’t have to wait til dark to see them bloom. Individual moonflowers last only one night, withering with the morn, but you can begin toasting them as soon as twilight. An annual morning glory, it likes regular feeds of liquid fertilizer and lots of water in its large pot on our hot south-facing deck. We run mono-filament fishing line from a stake up to the little balcony. Come frost we’ll rip it all down, but it’s lots of fun through summer.
Moonflowers climb the line.
Sowed fresh foxglove seed a couple of weeks ago and hope to have young plants to put in the ground this fall. Biennials, they will get established this year and next, blooming two springs from now if all goes well and the creek don’t rise. The deer don’t eat them and they do well in the shady beds on either side of the house. For many years we grew sedum and black-eyed-susan here, even hosta, but for the past couple of years, the resident herd has begun browsing, so they’re a lost cause now; naturally toxic, drifts of Digitalis purpurea along with some ferns, also reliably deer resistant, will suit the spot much better.
Freshly sown foxgloves to plant this fall
Foxgloves with jasmine and blue hosta last spring