Hello Morning Glory - Goodbye Sweet Peas

This is my beloved Morning Glory.

It's not your run of the mill Morning Glory.  It grows from a tuber and comes up by itself every spring.  It  is about 3" across the flower front.  And it stays open for many hours.  Always the same pretty soft purple color.

 I found it in an out of the way nursery on a car trip about 9 years ago. 

I thought you would like to see a side view.

This is what the leaves look like.

To my great surprise, it showed it's pretty self in April this year.

In all years past it didn't come up until I was convinced it was dead.  That was near the end of May.  You would find me digging in the soil to examine the tuber for signs of life.

In the process of pruning out the Sweet Peas.

Normally, the Sweet Peas are completely dead and gone before it arrives.  This year there was a conflict.  There were still a few Sweet Peas left, though pretty far gone.

I had to unveil my Morning Glory and found a bloom!!  Yeah!!

The last Sweet Peas!

They are so delightful.  

Goodbye Sweet Peas!

I can't wait to see you again next spring!

I'm joining Tootsie today for more pretty flowers.

Sweet Peas In My Front Garden

My Sweet Peas in the morning.

This year I planted Sweet Peas in my Front as well as my Back garden.  I love them so much, I want to plant them every where.

I love that there are different colors planted together.  And it's a surprise to see what color they will be.  This is a marvelous blush color.

The smell is amazing!

March 1 Photos! Can you believe it?

I haven't even put up my post on pruning my roses. Which I did last week.  And Old Blush is flowering amazingly!!

Of course you don't prune the Antique roses like the newer ones.

But everything just went crazy with leafing out and buds.  

It's like I closed my eyes for a second and Wham!!  A glimpse of Spring.

Which is coming your way, too.

You will never be sorry when you plant Sweet Peas.

I loved them so much in my back yard that I planted them in my front yard too.

And on March 1 they first bloomed!

I think Sweet Peas should be everywhere.

Sweet Peas on Flaunt your Flowers Friday

This is the first year I remembered to plant Sweet Peas in the fall.

I love the way they smell!

A room with a view!

I can see them when standing at my kitchen sink.

In all their multicolored glory.

The Sunbonnet Baby

See the pretty sweet peas

Growing in the sun;

How they lift their faces up,

Laughing every one,

So the sun may peep inside

Their pink bonnets, big and wide.

Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1902

I like to cut them and put them on my table...

and use them for photographs of my real job.

Perfectly Sweet!! Peas!!

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