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12/10/2018 - End Of Season
The season is running to an end. The vines are slowly dying and drying up. High time to start collecting some seed pods as we still have...

Ruvan Asagao
Oct 12, 20182 min read


20/09/2018 - Newcomers
We were lucky to get some nice weather the last two weeks. Nights tend to get chilly but the days are sunny and warm. Unfortunately my...

Ruvan Asagao
Sep 20, 20182 min read


3/09/2018 - Darkness
Things are still rather quiet in the garden. Ever since the heat and drought dissipated gray, overcast skies have been pretty much...

Ruvan Asagao
Sep 3, 20184 min read


17/08/2018 - Reprieve
The never-ending dry-spell has ended after all. We've finally been getting some rain during the last few days. Temperatures have also...

Ruvan Asagao
Aug 14, 20183 min read


25/07/2018 - Desiccated
Well it's been one month since the last blog post so high time to post an update on the garden. I've been very busy this month with other...

Ruvan Asagao
Jul 25, 20182 min read


26/06/2018 - Solstice
The garden is still growing strong. The weather has been lovely this year so far. It does look like it's time to break out some...

Ruvan Asagao
Jun 26, 20182 min read


13/06/2018 - Early Season Flowers
Flowering is slowly starting to pick up now. A lot of vines have visible flower buds and some are already blooming. Especially this pink...

Ruvan Asagao
Jun 13, 20181 min read


30/05/2018 - Bluji Fade and early senescence
Today we had the very first Ipomoea nil flowers of the season on an unexpectedly early Bluji Fade variety. The variety looks quite nice....

Ruvan Asagao
May 30, 20183 min read


23/05/2018 - First Flower of the Season!
A special moment of every season: the very first flower of the year! And this year the winner is Sunspots. Very likely Ipomoea coccinea...

Ruvan Asagao
May 23, 20181 min read


22/05/2018 - Sunspots: Ipomoea hederifolia or Ipomoea coccinea?
Today I noticed this Ipomoea hederifolia var. luteola "Sunspots" with it's first flower almost ready to bloom! This will officially be...

Ruvan Asagao
May 22, 20181 min read


17/05/2018 - Early flower buds!
I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I noticed three flower buds on this young Bluji Fade (Ipomoea nil). The flowering season...

Ruvan Asagao
May 17, 20182 min read


15/05/2018 - Round Three
The third round of germination was started yesterday evening. Here's what I started: - Akatsuki no Murasaki (Ipomoea nil) - Asa Kumo...

Ruvan Asagao
May 15, 20181 min read


8/05/2018 - Round Two
Sowed another round of Ipomoea nil yesterday evening. Today I was glad to see that the vast majority had already germinated after less...

Ruvan Asagao
May 8, 20182 min read


03/05/2018 - New I. nil varieties!
I received some mail from the Jacksonville Morning Glory Vineyard today! A bunch of new Ipomoea nil varieties as well as a restock on...

Ruvan Asagao
May 3, 20183 min read


16/04/2018 - Soaking and planting
I've been very busy sowing for the last two weeks. 42 out of 70 planned varieties have already come up and only a handful still need to...

Ruvan Asagao
Apr 16, 20181 min read


28/03/2018 - 2018 Variety List
Today I present the list of varieties I will be trying to grow this year. I've managed to collect quite a few more varieties of both...

Ruvan Asagao
Mar 28, 20182 min read


02/03/2018 - Choice Overload
I was sorting my seed collection and trying to figure out what to grow this year... This task proved impossible and I have since decided...

Ruvan Asagao
Mar 2, 20181 min read


12/02/2018 - Recap and plans for 2018
Last year due to incessantly cold weather the Ipomoea nil blooming season was somewhat of a letdown. But after that somewhat abrupt end...

Ruvan Asagao
Feb 12, 20182 min read
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