September glory

Back in April, I planted flower seeds in my balcony garden. The cosmos sprouted pretty quickly and grew well early, so they had a pretty good run of blooming before things got too hot for them. The morning glories, on the other hand, seemed to grow slowly; I think it was a month, at least, before they started twining vines around the vertical balcony rails. By that time, the early heat wave had started and it had stopped raining. Morning glories are pretty hardy, so I was surprised that it all affected them, but it did. I kept watering, but the vines kept growing very slowly with never a flower bud. Poor things were so stressed.

But this week, five months to the day from when I planted them, I looked out in the early hours of the morning and saw blue.