Thanks!

Thanks! The house is simple, but I like the layout. Built in 1968, so it is one year younger than I.
That yard, though, when I bought the place 4 years ago, was nothing but St. Augustine grass, a crape myrtle, and a foundation planting of boxwoods. All of it on dense clay soil I added the rail accent fence, all ten raised planting beds, around forty roses, six hydrangeas, camelia, American Beautyberry, button bush, Turk's cap, black mulberry, satsuma, Mayhaw, paw paws, loropetalums, three kinds of blackberries, native dewberries, blueberries, passionfruit, coral honeysuckle, monarda, gaillardia, rudbeckia, muscadine grapes, trailing powderpuff mimosas, native salvias both scarlet and violet, dahlias, shasta daisies, a few annual vegetables, and I am sure I am forgetting a few wildflowers.
Not surprizingly, a manicured lawn, poisoned into a monoculture turf, is not my priority or even secondary goal.

I will NEVER buy a home in an HOA-controlled neighborhood. Lawn "fascists." America has a number of insane obsessions, fundy Xtianity being but one. Lawns, massive personal trucks, and football are a few others. The lawn thing really aggravates me. Some HOAs have literally required member to use toxic chemicals to "keep up" their golf course--er--I mean lawns. It is insane. "We're NUMBER ONE!.....at destroying the environment.

Mine already look like they want to smother the Rambling rose, but Peggy will hold her own. Can't begin to count all the passion vine flower buds I am seeing. It is going to be a display. Thanks again for those cuttings you sent. I combined them with the ones I found locally, so they have some cross-pollination going on.

@MikeInBatonRouge They will open overnight in mass, I went out and had none, then a few hours later, 10 were open.

let me know which color of fruit you get from the purple ones, the light blue are yellow when ripe with red seeds