One rose flower managed to bloom in spite of being buried under vines. Some students came over to trim the bush back but it was late so we just had pizza and cheese cake insteady. Maybe they'll have time to come back before going home for summer vacation..

The house's south side is pretty well covered by the Green Canopies of Morning glory vines.. I should work on the west side. Next year I'll set up some big planters on the west side: late in the afternoon that's were the most tiresome heat comes in...

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Green Curtain? Multi-layered Canopy...
It would be interesting if there was some way to measure how much cooler the yard and house are with mounds of green working their way up strings onto the house and over to bushes. Sure, they limit the view out to the chickens but in this climate cooling things down comes first! And the chickens eat the fallen flower petals. When kids come over we can pull off the fading pinkish flowers and feed some birds by hand... Multi-Purpose Morning Glories..

People comment about how big the leaves are on these vines. The vines come from seeds that have just fallen or been cast around for the past couple years. Maybe store-bought seeds are some sort of F1- hybrids ad these plants are working their way back to the original strains? Maybe they are adapting to their situation here? It''s just nice that, once they get going, the grow fast and provide a lot of shade with their big leaves. I hope they stay green shady and cool until October, it will probably be really hot until then..

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