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Morning Glory
And glory all day long
Living in an apartment I have no place to garden and for me that is a very sad thing. My green thumb aches.
Luckily, my landlord has allowed me to place three large pots on the porch in front of the door leading into the apartment building. It is hard to do much gardening with just three large pots but at least it’s something.
In recent years I have grown tomato plants and parsley and other herbs with a few flowers. The vegetable and herb harvest were extremely minimal and hardly worth the effort so this year I decided to plant nothing but flowers. Flowers are SOOOO important! Besides, there is a produce store just a few blocks away that is open from July until early October that sells produce from local farmers and gardeners. I can satisfy my need for quality home-grown organic produce there.
The porch is covered and has decorative wrought iron posts holding up the roof. These wrought iron pillars are perfect for climbing vines, as I learned when I planted a few morning glories in recent years. This year I tripled the number of morning glory seeds that I planted and now there is a very green archway of morning glory vines.
And they recently finally started to bloom. Mind you, so far there have only been a few random flowers but the vines are now so covered with buds that in about…
