I'm so happy to see it blooming!
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I have wanted and tried to grow this vine from seed so many times I can't even count the attempts. They have always failed, and I had given up. But then I saw it at Annie's annuals this year, and bought it thinking I would probably kill it somehow- like I've killed it so many times in the past, but while I did kill a number of other plants, this one totally thrived.
Also called exotic love vine, firecracker vine and Spanish flag vine, it seems to like to be a bit moist I have it in a container that does not have drainage holes in it. A lot of the other plants in these containers died quickly but this one seemed to thrive in this environment.
I got this iris corm along with 3 others, at least 3, but maybe 4 years ago at a shop in apple hill, near placerville. It's been in a small gallon container that whole time spouting leaves each year then dying back in the winter.
It has finally bloomed, not just a single bloom but three! They have opened in succession, one right after the last and has looked this gorgeous for the last two weeks!
I planted these tomato seeds on April 11, I think that's a little late, but hey - better late than never! I also threw them into some packs that already had dirt in them from whatever I killed last year.
The week I planted them, it rained and I forgot about them, and the soil dried out, and then it rained again, but I really thought I killed them, but I kept watering them just in case. A week later there were 1-2 seedlings and I was happy because I was going to get a few, and I put chive seeds in the cells where nothing had come up, and continued watering them. Tomatoes are hardy, and the rest totally sprang up a week later, so it looks like I'll have a lot of them. These are the varieties:
Dr Carolyn
Uncle Mark Bagby
Tomato Paul Robeson
Tomato Purple Bumblebee
Tomato Basrawya
My friend also shouted out on facebook that he had more tomato plants then he could handle, so I picked up a couple each of the Martinos Roma and principe borgese he offered up. 
I planted one of each of those in a large container with a nursery-purchased Arkansas traveler, I put a tomato cage over each, and planted a couple borage seeds in the middle, and a few bunching onion and chive seeds in between, hopefully some of those come up.
These little guys are prolific spreaders and find their way into all my containers, they make so many seeds each year! They even grow out of the cracks inbetween the cement in my driveway (though those have never bloomed).
It's been a pretty mild winter temperature-wise in Northern California.
Hibiscus bud.
Nicotiana, and petunias holding in there...
Lipstick plant
Close up of safe growing up out of the lipstick plant
Daffodils are starting to bloom.
Here are some of the blooms from today, Dec 30th, when we got our first light frost.
Alyissum with a lantana ( not blooming) with frost. Those are snail statues in there.
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