That's Pink Jasmine, Tressa, or sometimes called Chinese Jasmine (Jasminum polyanthum). But again, it also likes to vine more than trail, so you'd constantly be fighting its nature to want to grow upwards and along your hanging basket chains. And it is VERY prolific. Smells wonderful, but very vigorous plant, at least for us here in the coastal S. California climate. I considered it for my arbor/patio cover, but my landscaper and I decided against it due to it tending to look ratty and scraggly during a large part of the season. If you can get to it to prune, it's not bad, but I'm not inclined to climb up 10 feet to the top of my patio cover to clean it up :-) Patty S.

My red impatiens (purchased in May) has been a hit so far this year with the female. I have it buried in my forsynthia, along with an overwintered fuschia, and my feeder. The fuschia is just starting to bloom. I've never seen them go for the Million Bells (this year I bought red), which is my favorite hanging basket for the sun. I had alot of extra petunias that needed to be out of Mr. Woodchucks reach, so I have a bunch of them hanging, but no action either. I did do one basket with Salvia coccinea "Forest Fire", an annual my zone. I figured it would do well in a basket, and it just started blooming. It's supposed to be 1'-2', but one year mine was 1' (part sun) and the next year it was 3' (full sun).

I was west of Boston for 5 days but asked my husband to pick all the peppers and put the fabric tunnel over the green and yellow beans that were planted late and had just started producing. A light frost hit the Thai Red Noodle beans and pepper plants but I still found a small bucket full of peppers he had missed. For shame, I was too busy in recent weeks and it was too rainy so I probably lost half a dozen nice red bell peppers that over-ripened. Pepper plants along the south side of the house are still fine. Basil on the granite porch step is ok or I should say not much worse than before I left (old and woody). Nasturtiums in hanging baskets are still ok. My winter squash crop was a disaster. Only a few squashes survived beetle attacks and then I found several squashes had been badly gnawed by a small animal. There was a deep hole dug in the corner of the patch, either dog or coyote, so I suspect something was after a small furry squash gnawing critter and I hope it got him. Recently the tomato thieving chipmunk was in the top of a 6' viburnum eating the berries. I didn't realize they could climb as well as squirrels. Grrrr. A drainage problem in late winter undermined steps in my narrow part-shade garden. While I was away my husband had to dig up some plants to install a drain pipe. He knew to save a hosta but has no memory of the bleeding heart and sweet woodruff that was also in the area of what is now fresh turned dirt. Now the question is whether I can get some daffodils etc in the ground before it freezes and do some perennial transplanting before this weird weather turns dismally cold. I hate November.

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