Flame on!

The Mexican Flame Vine (Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides) is blooming like crazy in the cool weather!

This vine is currently clambering up a large metal trellis in the garden and is simply covered in a riot of flame orange blooms that are very attractive to the few butterflies out cruising through the cooler weather. Mexican Flame Vine will bloom throughout the summer and into the winter here in Florida but will be killed back to the ground by frost. One neat aspect of this flower is that once the bloom is finished it dries out into puffy white seed pods very much like a dandelion.

Also, today I planted down a raised bed of Virginia Snakeroot that were sent to me by Rod Angeroth of Loess Roots. I'll try to get pictures tomorrow morning or early next week of their new Florida home in a shady raised bed beneath some lovely winged elm trees.