This past week in my garden ...

Cypress Vine

The weather has been extraordinary! My garden is full of blooms and growth — and it is August! My work schedule has meant limited time to enjoy digging in the dirt ... However, here is what has been goin' on:

• every garden area has been mulched
• renegade vines and seedlings pruned back/dug up
• pruning, pruning and deadheading
• weeding, weeding, weeding!
• sweet potato vine growing like wild!
• purple Wave petunias have been inconsistent bloomers
• finally have Cypress vine growing! (Yay!)
• removed excess Vinca and gave to a friend
• removed sedums plagued by some sort of mildew
• purchased top soil for more grass seed planting

There has been just enough rain to keep everything happy (plants, grass and gardener!). I still need to get more grass seed sown.

And I would like to transplant some Cypress Vine to grow in the west side garden area. I have a topiary of wild grapevine and the red bloom of the Cypress Vine would look great with all the other red annuals.