Now more than ever I feel that "Gracie's Grape" is actually 'Blue Lake'!

http://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/grapes/CultivarBulletins/Blue%20Lake%20circular-1964.pdf

I've long heard of this grape but was mistaken in thinking it was just a selection of Vitis aestivalis. I again wonder if my "Gracie's Grape" is in fact this?

http://viticulture.hort.iastate.edu/cultivars/Cynthiana.pdf

I found this very nice overview of grapes, including the various "Bunch Grapes" that like Florida:

http://www.caes.uga.edu/applications/publications/files/pdf/B%20807_2.PDF

I've grown many cultivars of Sulfur Cosmos, but 'Dwarf Lemon Yellow' is THE brightest, cheeriest yellow I've ever seen. I've planted hundreds of seeds in front and back...here is the very first bloom. Very cheap in bulk at everwilde farms.

http://www.everwilde.com/store/Cosmos-Dwarf-Lemon-Wildflower-Seeds.html

I've not had bananas bear fruit here in years due to ongoing drought, but this Raja Puri that Mary Jo gave me last year is prospering due to deep mulch, goat and horse poop, my watering much more out front, some decent rains, plus a few handfuls of food grade potassium chloride (aka 'muriate of potash' in organic fertilizers). Here are are two shots from today, morning light and after a rain.

This fountain is simply lovely.

http://www.fountainsoc.org.uk/fountain/85

First bloom today from seeds sown barely 2 weeks ago of that Dwarf Lemon Yellow sulfur cosmos I got 7,700 seeds of for about $6...it is THE brightest, cheeriest yellow cosmos I have EVER seen by far...charming. Pics soon when there are more blooms. I am using these as heavily in the new food forest out back, and in various locations out front for effortless color that attracts butterflies.

http://www.everwilde.com/store/Cosmos-Dwarf-Lemon-Wildflower-Seeds.html