Five Dimensions

Morning, folks. Tonight we'll participate in our second dragonboating practice up in Pawtucket as long as the weather's okay. The actual race is at the end of the month.

Remember when I promised ProPil Pop Quiz #8, but then I figured out the answer on my own? Well, I'm glad I grabbed the four o'clock flower seeds from that garbage can out back of our place in Dupont Circle. It appears there were two different varieties of four o'clock seeds in that baggie, and I like them both.

It's hard to tell, but the leaves of the lighter specimen are mottled light and darker green. Neat! They both have trumpet-like flowers. The orange ones on the darker plant have specks of red in them.



This business of figuring out how to make the front and back yards look nice is harder than it seems - a worthy artistic challenge. Each plant must be understood well in five dimensions - sun tolerance, height, circumference, color, and maturity/time. (Ignoring water needs and bloom time.)

I put the four o'clocks in the ground still in their plastic pots, so I could move them if I didn't like them. The other reason is that I read they send hard-to-remove spring-sprouting tubers into the soil that can infiltrate a whole plot.