MORNING GLORY

                        

These days when the weather is cooling down and I can bear to go out in the yard and drink my first cup of coffee, I am immediately drawn to the morning glories growing all over last years Christmas tree.

A couple years ago I saw this idea somewhere - for keeping your tree year round.  We go on our yearly trek to the tree farm in early December and get a robust tree.  Mid January it comes down and we prop it up in a snowbank outside the kitchen window so we can watch the birds use it for shelter as they come to and from the feeder.  By May it is a brown, dry mess - and as everything is turning green in the yard it's planted and staked out back of the studio -  morning glory seeds planted under and around it.

By the end of August very little of the old fir tree is evident, as it has been covered with morning glory vines and flowers.  GLORIOUS.  They last awhile - as they seem to enjoy the cooler weather as much as I do.