I love morning glories, but have never grown them myself. Our flowers have taken a backseat to simply trying to keep the foliage green (and alive) during what has been a hellish summer with numerous triple-digit days in a row. My knockout roses succumbed to the dreaded rose rosette disease, so we replaced them with low-maintenance yucca plants. I'm actually quite pleased with how this little Texas-style "secret garden" (that we planted in March of this year) has thrived in spite of the wretched weather. As the second pic indicates, it's taken on a wild look that I was hoping for all along. The vitex (chaste trees) actually are still in bloom. I look forward to fall, when all the flowers should go through another round of blooms.

Ida, I have several very similar pots on my patio area. At least it looks similar on my monitor. Ceramic (glazed), light greenish or a bit of an aqua shade? Anyhoo, I was just thinking today I might refresh some of my summer pots with something to bloom on through fall. Of course here in my area many plants will bloom for a while; but, we've had an abundance of rain. Which is good because we have not had drought conditions this year, but it is hard on potted plants. I have 2 or 3 that I'm just ready to yank out of the pot! I have perennials in some of the pots but annuals in several also. As for morning glories, I almost always plants seeds each year. This year I decided to try some in a hanging basket. I had seen pictures and they were gorgeous, but it. did. not. work. for. me. My white morning glories are actually moon flowers and bloom late in the day. Your area looks very good. I have always liked chaste trees.

Thanks, Tina! Yep - the pot is just as you describe. I bought it to contain an indoor plant that didn't last as long as hoped, and decided to use it to plant my mint in earlier this year. What's in the pot now has grown from being almost completely cut back when it just about took over that area of the bed, even from the pot! I read that mint is highly invasive, and that was an absolute truth! I love the way it smells though, and had planned to cook with it but actually keep forgetting it's out there when we are in the process of making something that we could use it in.

We planted three chaste trees in our tiny backyard, and they're all doing beautifully. The one that I can see out the master bath window is taller than the fence now, and they all need to have the lower branches stripped away (did it a month or two ago, and they need it again), as I want them to grow tree-shaped and not bush-shaped.

My parents have grown morning glories for many years. This year my dad grew a number of things from seed, including zinnias, which have grown to be almost as tall as I am!

This is our monsoon season, which means the time of year when our plants finally start blooming and grow lushly.

Russian Sage grows wonderfully out here and we have a lot of it:

My Talavara pots on either side of our steps:

Off our back portals the wild Blackfoot Daisies are blooming everywhere:

And so are my Agastache Rupestris (Licorice Mint/ Hyssop):

In my walled garden Morning Glories are rampant, growing everywhere, even through my Rose of Sharon.

And my roses:

My peegee hydrangea is enormous after the very wet summer we had.

Lynn, your plants are doing great and are so colorful!

Annie, I sure wish I could grow more Hydrangeas here but it gets too hot. The only one I have was full of leaves in the Spring until we got two hard freezes. It recovered but still no blooms. Your's are stunning.

Jen, we need to get some beer and cry in it. I had sixteen full grown Rose bushes that put on the best shows every summer...until Rose Rosette hit 2 years ago. By the end of last summer all the Roses had it. Everyone of them died. Two Knockouts are on their last leg blooming a bit.

The picture below is the Rose hedge I grew and was so proud of it. I've been cutting them down all summer and my arms are permanently scarred.

The other Roses in another spot got it too. One mite was all it took. Can you believe it?

You can't see them in the picture above, but we had Morning Glories coming up there for years and I kept them alive. So I came up with a great idea to camouflage the Roses I'd been cutting down since Winter, and that's to let the old MG's do it's thing, and I also planted seeds in front of the trellis below.

Taken 8/1, and notice how much they grew between then and after some good rains and cloudy days in the picture under the one below. Amazing.

Morning Glory, Four o'Clocks, and Moon Flowers grow like weeds here.

Look closely at the second picture and you can see some dead Roses. What a chore.

Oh, I would have been just SICK to have lost that many mature rosebushes! That RR disease is nasty stuff. Mine were just youngsters when planted in March, but they were so pretty initially and I loved tending them. Then they started to get more and more spindly and weird-looking, and finally the foliage started producing that ugly "witch's broom" and the thorns began growing in mass profusion. I actually took a cutting back to the nursery where I'd bought them, as they claim to guarantee all of their plants, and the manager would not admit to me that they had RR, even though the knockouts he still had in his inventory were starting to show signs of it as well. That was frustrating, but this did teach me exactly what to look for. I'm sure you were devastated to have lost so many of your beautiful plants.

Here's one from in front of the house. It's from last year, but looks the same now. The whole garden needs work but not gonna happen this year . . .

Front window boxes with Petunias, Scaevola, and Catharanthus

Concrete bowl planters with Dipladenia, Petunias, Calibrachoa and Impatiens

Patio planters with Geraniums and Calibrachoa

My new patio put in last fall. Some perennials for this first year and then annuals to fill in spaces. By next year I will have a few more perennials.

A few more, fall/winter container planting to replace geraniums later on

Patio beds, newly planted this year, more to be planted next year. The whole thing was torn up last year to put in a new septic system.

Keeping things watered has been tough this year.

Saypoint, you have your own private haven there! Do you tend the flowers yourself? BTW, you also have Periwinkle in one of the window boxes. They've always been a favorite of mine.

Ida, I don't believe for moment the rose you bought came down with rosette after you bought it. Did you know you can't plant anymore Roses in the same spot? Not sure how to amend the soil in case you want to plant them. There's no way I can grow more roses now. Oh well, they were a PITA anyway. lol

Moon flowers, Four o'clocks, and Morning Glories are all in the Ipomoea family and all grow like weeds here, even with frigid winters.

The pictures below were taken last week, best seen enlarged. None of them were planted where they're at. After we added-on, I was so happy to see the side of the house fill with Four o'clocks, it sure saved me time and money making a new bed.

Moon flowers were just starting to open.

I love this one. DH mows around it. It's also the ditch/culvert Pepper would hide in.

Four o'Clocks

Mtn, what are the white flowers? White is so pretty in the evenings. Love the color combination.

They are begonias. Yes, I am always tempted to do an all white garden.

Yes, I do my own planting and tending, except that this year I had someone do the heavy digging for tree and shrub planting. I used to do it myself. This is a new house for me, since last year, so lots of annuals and a few perennials so far. More perennials planned for fall planting and next year, as well as shrubs and trees.

These are a couple of my dad's stand of zinnias (some taller than me), planted from seed in the spring. He loves to plant and tend things, particularly from seed, as it reminds him of what he did as a little boy. When I was a child, I thought zinnias were so happy, but couldn't quite say the name properly. They have, therefore, been "bazinnias" in my family for well over 50 years.

IdaClaire, may I borrow your dad next year? I adore zinnias but just cannot seem to grow them. Tried many times, and finally gave up. The local nurseries seldom offer them as six-packs, and if they do, the colors are not appealing... grrrr.

This year I planted Dalia bulbs for the first time in many years. They are just starting to bloom. The first picture shows the plant with gigantic blooms, but they are in the center of the plant and sort of hidden and squished. I love them though!

June was hot and dry but July gave us a lot of rain (and hail). The roses did great though!

The calendula looks great. In the background is a wildflower I have been trying to identify. I think it is a type of sunflower and there are fields of it right now. I think it is causing my allergy problems.

One of my favorites called red birds in a tree:

Cosmos under the cabbage leaves:

And this area has agastache, May knight sage and catmint(among others).

Hopefully it loads

Tish, I'm pretty sure the yellow wild flowers are Rudbeckia's. They're beautiful. My favorite color Cosmos is blooming right now, purple like your's. The color really stands out with the light green stalks.

I can't remember if I posted this picture in another topic, but this is my "cottage garden." lol