Looking good, Omar...................I have never seen the last plant, but I really like it...............lots of color.

I love the perennial MG! I need to plant some milkweed, such a pretty bloom.

Beautiful photos. Really love that yellow mallow plant. I can see all the buds on it. All are lovely, but what Omar has left out is the overall 'wow factor' when you first see his garden! We're headed out to Gruene. :-)

Who cares if there are a few weeds when you have color like this! Your Copper Canyon daisy looks fantastic. Mine ending up in too much shade so didn't bloom much, but I enjoy the scent that the foliage releases when you brush against it.

MsRedByrd, I think you would love the container gardens at the entrance of Gristmill restaurant. The restaurant itself is awesome. If you go, ask for a table outside. You'll have a view of the Comal River. After that you can browse the tons of stores they have there. I think they have a small nursery too.

Omar

Omar, thanks for the tip on Gruene. There were so many containers with brilliant and colorful combinations that I would have never thought possible. I'll post just one but we took lots of pics. Of course, we shopped, too.

Back to 'on topic'.... I think that Morning Glory would be very easy to propagate with seeds. Years ago, we had them and they came up every year. My next door neighbor loved it when they spilled over in his yard. He let the vines 'volunteer' in his yard for three years. That Grand Canyon Daisy is beautiful and so colorful in your landscape. It really makes a statement! You have a complete natural palette with all the colors and variance. Love that Graham Thomas Rose.... Just Gorgeous!

Omar, have to ask.... Where did you find your yellow mallow plant? Was it from a local nursery?

Irene

Your MG is so pretty! I'm planning to plant two pots of the blue ones this spring flanking a gate along my back patio/driveway which has an odd 2x4 Japanese-style wooden Pagoda beam above the gate. Hoping they will grow up and meet in the middle at the top. Love all the other photos, too! :)

Anyone interesting in growing it should read all the comments about Perennial morning glories on the Dave's Garden site and check out the photos so you know what you might be getting into. I was warned against it by a friend who says it is taking over her large yard in Seguin.

The true 'perennial morning glory' is a tropical vine that spreads by runners and is not the same as our traditional southern 'Heavenly blue' variety and it's various cultivars.

It may be that people are calling their morning glories 'perennial' because they come back from seeds, but they are not the same as the Brazilian vine.

It all looks so gorgeous!

Do be careful around those puss moth caterpillars though-they are one of the most venomous caterpillars in the world. In college, one stung me and I went into anaphylactic shock! Ouch.

Omar, we call your "puss moth caterpillar" an asp, and you do NOT want to even slightly brush up against those furry little devils. The poison is on the tips of the "fur" you see. I was pruning jasmine at my last house last year and apparently one was on the plant and it touched my arm (I never saw him though). That made THE worst stinging sore ( like a severe burn) exactly the size/shape of an asp that would not heal up for weeks and weeks. Left an awful scar for another few months which finally faded away. Most of the asps we had in that yard were grey. I saw one of the beige variety like the one in your photo in my bigger back garden here at my new house about 2 months ago and killed him. I do not like asps living in or multiplying in my yard. If they have any known "garden benefits", that's one insect I will not tolerate AT all even if there are benefits.

MsRed Byrd, I found it at Barton Springs Nursery in Austin.

Omar

I think I collected a few seeds of Yellow Indian mallow from a friends house. There are a couple that are similar to each other. They are native on the cut banks of the Pedernales River in Travis county. I need to get them planted.

Here are two different similar plants. I can't tell them apart in the field. Both are said to be growing in my area.

Velvet leaf Mallow , False Indian Mallow

And

Texas Indian Mallow

They are not in the same family. If you write in "indian Mallow in the LBJ WFC, you get 8 possibilities. LOL

Be careful of the perennial morning glory. You might end up with 20 acres of it in the neighborhood. IT can become a monster.

I had a mystery plant I hadn't been able to ID. Thanks to your pics i'm pretty sure it's a red firespike. Thanks Omar!

Lisa

You all have about talked me out of the Heavenly Morning Glory. I don't like fighting plants THAT invasive. Anyone have another suggestion for a non-invasive, blooming vine (not wisteria though) I can train and up across that pagoda topper on my gate? Clematis doesn't like the heat and never does well for me; jasmine takes too much pruning and trimming to confine/control it IMHO. What about Carolina Jasmine? A neighbor when we lived in TX City had a gorgeous one in his back yard surrounding his kitchen window.

Buttoni, Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue' planted from seeds is not invasive. It's only the perennial Ipomoea indica that is a rampant grower.

Crossvine is a good one for a pergola cover.

I'll be pulling that wild purple morning glory (Ipomoea cordatotriloba) forever I guess. My next door neighbors let it grow all over and the seeds blow over here. I stopped planting the beautiful Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue' because it would cross with the wild one and the resulting sneaky vines (which were hard to keep separate from the seeds I planted) would grow very large, but produce hardly any flowers.

Another of my neighbors has the 'Heavenly Blue' growing by their mailbox and it is simply gorgeous. I'll try to get a picture of it. BTW, they do best in lean soil so when you plant seeds don't fertilize.

Thanks so much for the info, Bostedo and Rosalee. I think I'm going to try the Carolina Jasmine. I already have some blue (plumbago) going out back but very little that blooms yellow. Might be a welcome color change on that fence.