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Perspective: Tumblefree

Mar5
From The Washington Post today: Tumbleweed is piled up to the roofline at a house in Eagle Mountain, Utah, on Saturday. (Britta Jarvie/Reuters)

I’m grateful I don’t live in Utah anymore, for a number of reasons, but in particular because of the Tumblemageddon that took place near Salt Lake City over the windy weekend. (Check out the link accessible to all to learn about this noxious invasive species and see some crazy video.) The worst that happened here at Mirador was a few buckets got blown around, and one of my garden covers disappeared. I hope it’s late enough in the season that the little seeds and seedlings survived the cold blanketed under the snow that covered them. We have some tumbleweeds rolling around, and more now than there were twenty years ago; but I’m grateful to be relatively tumblefree.

Tuesday Morning

Sep25

Morning Glory in the Crown of Thorns

What’s the story with morning glories? I’ve wanted them forever, tried a few times and they never took. The few I planted this summer are going bonkers. They finally climbed to the deck, they’ve engulfed the hummingbird feeder, they’re preying on the hanging thyme, they’ve climbed a cactus, strapped it to the post. As most things pull in their powers, fade back to ground for winter, morning glories bloom profusely, more and more blue flowers every day.

“You actually planted those?” said Cindy from back east. “They’re weeds! They’re all over my yard!” Oh, are they perennials? I said. “No, they self sow.” Uh-oh. It had not occurred to me that morning glories might take over here. Perhaps their seeds can’t survive the winter. We’ll know more later.