Beautiful! I may try to do the same next year. I think I heard geese. It looks and sounds like an interesting place to visit. When are we going?

Omar

Omar, good idea! I didn't hear geese, but her neighbor's have peacocks and axis deer. Here's a little tour of her place posted sometime back. Here's funny one on herdo's and don't's of making bottle trees.

You make me feel olllddd! :D The first post is 10 years old and I was the first person to reply to it.

Omar

The flowers smell wonderful and the bees love them.

Wow -- I had no idea that the flowers had a good scent.

For what length of time does it flower?

Four, good question. I asked Linda M., but haven't heard back yet. Maybe someone else on here knows. She did tell me when she sent the video that after the center is bloomed out she cuts it off and the side shoots start blooming.

Linda M. says: "They've been blooming for at least 3 weeks and there is still a lot of bloom power left. The neat thing is that it blooms when there is not much else. I'm speculating that about the time it's done the spring flowers will be going strong such as larkspur, poppies, etc.."

Nine years ago today I posted about Pipevine swallowtails nectering on Winter honeysuckle, Lonicera fragrantissima. I still have it. When I walk outside on a warm winter morning its scent fills the air. Bees love it.

Amazing!!! I glanced at this thread several days ago, but didn't have time to view the video until now. OK, I'll bite! I realized it's too late to start broccoli from seed here in zone 9a, but Google results indicate broccoli might be regrown from stalks: worth a shot!

I've got pipevine swallowtail host plants in the garden, so now I just need to attract the butterflies.

You know that you are obligated to give us broccoli reports.

Javi, I bought broccoli seedlings at HEB yesterday. I hope they get to bloom before the heat hits us.

Omar

four: I wouldn't have it any other way -- oh, the pressure, though!

Omar: they sell broccoli seedlings at your HEB?! I need to go check.

The picture I posted above of the bees in the broccoli--That has been blooming for about 4 weeks now.