Flowers On Our Sweet Potato Vines
We've been growing Sweet Potato Vines for the better part of ten years. Basically ever since I started to buy and plant containers of my own, we've found a home for one of these. Or six of them. With their rock-bottom price (usually $0.99 a piece), I naturally grab one of these and a spike or two and check the box on the "spill" and "thrill" in the fill-spill-thrill container philosophy trio. But in all of that time, I have never had a Sweet Potato Vine flower. Until now. And I have not one vine flowering, but two! In two different containers . Here, below, you can see both of the wine barrel containers that I used on our patio and you can see that both of them have a very healthy/robust purple sweet potato vine and both are flowering! (also note how happy the Lemon Coral Sedum is, eh?) The flowers are quite striking and add some drama to the normally boring vine. From this DIYNetwork post , it turns out that the reason I...