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John Wares

@johnwares.bsky.social

Now I feel bad; she was trying to stay with me. Maybe our relationship can continue when I visit that crossvine foliage. I just needed some space.

October 31, 2026 at 8:51 PM

AngelKat

@angelkat.bsky.social

Blooms & A Shroom…garden blooms are becoming fewer now, so all still showing their stuff are much admired & appreciated. 🌿

Tangerine Crossvine blooms new to the backyard this year. 🧡💛

I’ll never tire of American Beautyberry purple berries 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣

2 days of solid rain after 2 months of drought … these mushrooms are sprouting

American Beautyberry berries…I’m sad another season for these is over & I’ll soon have to cut this potted plant back for overwintering under lots of bark mulch and a wrap around the pottery planter. 🪴

October 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM

AngelKat

@angelkat.bsky.social

🪴 After 5 1/2 Months…the Crossvine finally decides to bloom. Now, hoping it starts climbing up the trellis.

Crossvine blooms today, 10/1. It’s been a long, brutal summer so this is very nice to see. 🪴🧡

Closer view of yellow & tangerine colored Crossvine blooms. It actually rained significantly today, so we’re all happy. 😊 🪴 🧡 💛

October 1, 2026 at 10:04 PM

AngelKat

@angelkat.bsky.social

Looks like you might be in luck! 🍀

www.gardenia.net/plant/bignon...

Bignonia capreolata (Crossvine)

Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata) is a show-stopping flowering vine with orange-red trumpets that quickly cover fences, arbors, and walls.

www.gardenia.net

October 2, 2026 at 1:52 AM

CindyM's via🔗 Black n' Blue Sky PhotoBlog

@cindym.bsky.social

Am going soon with a clutch of 🧑‍🧑‍🧒 to get doublevaxxed💉at Costco.
Pretty tickled about health Adventure except for fact that I have to get up and out of here on a Fri, normally not my jam. I avoid Weekend shopping, bc like any other American City, desert suburban driving is maddening but!
#SkySoPretty

gorgeous bell shaped unopened peach colour blooms
on a crossvine. with a trumpet shaped yellow and faint peachy- coloured bloom, in a zone9B backyard in the Suburban Sonoran suburbs. below the crossfire in a raised bed are purple vinca.

stacks and stacks of clouds upon clouds almost completely obscure what is normally a blue sky
as seen from my backyard in the Phoenix Suburban Sonoran desert. my backyard includes greenery on a wall and a western honey Mesquite tree.

this sky is overcast ,these are Vinca in a raised bed next to the pedestal bird bath in the Suburban Sonoran Desert of agricultural zone 9B

voluminous clouds
form a backdrop to the Phoenix City towers which now reside on South Mountain Park at its highest point which you can see above a dirty looking shade cloth in my yard.

September 25, 2026 at 2:29 PM

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@cindym.bsky.social

Part 2 to an ongoing rumination about why am I even doing this? Phoenix having storms rn; it is terribly exciting and, I am waiting to take a shower bc Lunadog, can I be very honest and say she's losing her shit? and I'm sitting with her till the storms pass; they always go fast.🌱🌿 still gotta go 2🛍️

a weather alert from my phone
screenshot of thunderstorms in Phoenix on September 24th 2026 around 10:00 a.m. with a graphic showing lightning strikes and storm areas

gorgeous shades of golden yellow and delicate shades of peach
trumpet flowers on a crossVine in my yard, before the storm rolls in on a September Day in the northern Sonoran Desert of the Phoenix foothills.

storm clouds on the horizon or maybe just passing by, hard to say.
South Mountain Park towers in the distance from the vantage point of a backyard with a block wall and desert greenery.
agricultural zone 9B Northern Sonoran Desert

Technicolor backyard w vantage point of a pot with succulent and vibrant red peach gold flowers.
I am sorry but no I cannot dumb it down for you
extremely bad joke
this is a portulaca ☘️

September 24, 2026 at 5:26 PM

CindyM's via🔗 Black n' Blue Sky PhotoBlog

@cindym.bsky.social

Update/ALTTEXT Photo 1: Gorgeous gold, emanating from the center of a peach- coloured Trumpet flower, on a Crossvine on a blockwall, separating neighbouring yards, in the Northern Sonoran Desert of the Phoenix Foothills.

CindyM's via🔗 Black n' Blue Sky PhotoBlog @cindym.bsky.social · Sep 18

PeepMyPlants🌱
SkySoPretty
🩷 Vinca bc it is hardy, was on sale!🫡
Gorgeous gold, emanating from the center of a peach- coloured Trumpet flower, on a Crossvine on a blockwall, separating neighbouring yards, in the Northern Sonoran Desert of the Phoenix Foothills.YellowBells go in Bamboo Garden.
Zone9B

delicate pink with deep raspberry and gold centered, vincas

at the suggestion of a mutual 🩷,new yellow bells planted in the Bamboo Garden with new yellow bells in the direct Center between drying bambo clusters .

undulating cactus
not native
eves needle
in an overcast ominous cloudy night time or daytime doesn't seem to be discernible sky in. Northern Sonoran Desert Phoenix foothills

September 18, 2026 at 4:47 PM

CindyM's via🔗 Black n' Blue Sky PhotoBlog

@cindym.bsky.social

PeepMyPlants🌱
SkySoPretty
🩷 Vinca bc it is hardy, was on sale!🫡
Gorgeous gold, emanating from the center of a peach- coloured Trumpet flower, on a Crossvine on a blockwall, separating neighbouring yards, in the Northern Sonoran Desert of the Phoenix Foothills.YellowBells go in Bamboo Garden.
Zone9B

September 18, 2026 at 4:31 PM

CindyM's via🔗 Black n' Blue Sky PhotoBlog

@cindym.bsky.social

🌱droid Fuji Supira Filter Snapseed Freeware
IfIrecallcorrectly?
1970s-'80s camera Film Advertisers waged War.
I don't think anyone won but currently this Fuji Filter reminds me of what FujiFilm touted as a great choice in challenge of capturing Nature even when it's holding still.
Edit🌀
PeepMyPlants

blooming/open trumpet flowers of different colours of yellow orange red, ea. w/five petals, on a crossvine( photo has been flipped upside down, it is) on a 5-ft block wall with metal fencing.

September 17, 2026 at 6:56 PM

CindyM's via🔗 Black n' Blue Sky PhotoBlog

@cindym.bsky.social

hello Blacksky👋
despite you being under construction, gonna pop some 🌱snaps up
Sending good energy from Phoenix Foothills Northern Sonoran Desert SWUnited States
GrowingZone9B
PeepMyPlants
Hashtags were not part of the ATProtocol plan ☺️ Their institution was backwards engineered. Made me 🤷 bc
*🤷*?

the opposite of sad!
mature Evergreen flowering poisonous beautiful. Oleanders of white and pink against a cloudless Suburban Sonoran Desert Blue sky at sunrise.

cloudless blue Suburban Sonoran Desert Phoenix Foothills sky contrasted against Oleanders of white with a tiny bit of pink also at the right edge

trumpet shaped vibrant yellow flowers as well as a more burnished yellow orange unopened bud ,on a crossvine against a block wall, in growing zone 9B, Suburban Sonoran desert, Phoenix Foothills.

ground covering flowers with five Petals of a purple pink and a golden Center. vinca flowers

September 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM

CindyM's via🔗 Black n' Blue Sky PhotoBlog

@cindym.bsky.social

It's an incredibly huge compliment to be considered Neurospicy! 😍
yes please and thank you
I am late self-diagnosed; I myself, used to diagnose, tho I hastily add, only at Masters level; my health crapped out, I became legally disabled, now morphing into a tiny pension(!)2nd childhood fully in play🌱

a single open flower that looks purple with white edges and with a over large bulbous golden Center.
a star flower on a crossvine in the Suburban Sonoran desert, Phoenix foothills.

White Oleander flowers in the Suburban Sonoran Desert against a vibrant blue sky with wispy, swirling, blue clouds.

if anyone has any suggestions for what to do with this space which is enclosed by a 5-ft block wall and is on the sunny side of a very sunny us agricultural zone 9B? throw me a suggestion. this is a Bamboo Garden with mostly dried bamboo on the ground. any ideas about what to put in to grow over the winter?

a detail of an open flower ,lavender star flower on a crossvine. detail of a flower opening

September 6, 2026 at 11:38 PM

CindyM's via🔗 Black n' Blue Sky PhotoBlog

@cindym.bsky.social

🪶I'm a lo maintenance gal w/putting living things first*, then turning to what's left at 66 for me to prep to be able to go to the market; it's pretty minimal! which is a Grace, bc psychiatry kept me🏠bound for 20 years
Gratitude
water's back
and, I got a prescription thingy fixed
(*me and 👑Anne!)

everything looks better with a Kodak gold filter or when it's the time of day where everything looks like it's got a Kodak gold filter not exactly sure but this is a picture of the lady Cooper's Hawk in the pedestal bird bath in the backyard I am standing at the door to the house and looking over the pool at the bird who is in front of a 5-ft block wall with vine on it amidst other flora, both landscaped and potted.

such a pretty pair of birds. note how the male on the left of of the female is a bit bigger.Stone pedestal bird bath in the Suburban desert of the Phoenix Foothills amidst other Flora upon A gravel ground. note the barring on his tail.

as taken from the house with a cell phone camera this is probably a better detail of two Cooper's Hawks the male on the left with prominent barring on his tail and the female on the right with her full creamy and tan patterned chest and golden talons, facing the photographer. both are on a stone bird bath pedestal in front of a block wall covered in crossvine, both birds are attempting to catch other birds using the bird bath and eat them, as they are carnivore birds.

September 3, 2026 at 6:07 PM

CindyM's via🔗 Black n' Blue Sky PhotoBlog

@cindym.bsky.social

🌱Happy RedWed from Blooms in Phoenix Foothills
Did you know that Red Blue and Yellow are primary colours; a blending of primaries gets to be included w primary group w ♥️ Red being primary to 🧡 Orange, plus💛...I'm making this up😘; I love colour vs. light diminishing,etc. Autism Learning Disabilities

clusters of vibrant red feather looking flowers with golden interiors catching early morning light in a Suburban desert front yard. Evergreen Baja fairy Duster, calliandra Californica.

pride of Barbados against a cloudless September morning sky in the Suburban Phoenix Desert; long stems and diminishing large clusters of flowers in shades from a near Red to Yellow

soft light in the early morning hours of the last day of August in 2026 illuminate the tiny white and gold flowers growing from clusters of vibrant raspberry coloured bracts or leaves, upon this blooming Evergreen bush, Oleander. red Wednesday

just a little guy! Western Fence lizard on a block wall behind a wire fencing upon which a bit of crossvine grows and Sun reflects the leaves in Shadow in this mid-morning September image.

September 2, 2026 at 6:11 PM

Ms. Kitty ☀️💙🕊️

@katmom888.bsky.social

The happy crossvine in full bloom is a welcome beginning to Spring in this corner of the world. The bees are busy visiting each trumpet flower & the hummingbirds will be coming by soon. 🐝🌿🌱💙🦋🕊️
#Flowers #Spring #Nature #Photography #Bloomscrolling #GardenSky #Peace #GardeningBluesky #HappyPlace #Zen

Crossvine, also called trumpet flower, is a beautiful native, semi-evergreen, climbing, woody, vine. The flowers leaning toward the sun are trumpet shaped in clusters, a blend of orange on the outside and yellow on the inside. Crossvine is a member of the Bignonia family (Bignoniaceae).

April 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM

John Meyer

@johnme23.bsky.social

Crossvine bloom, with ant - for #MacroMonday

#macro #photography #crossvine #garden #flower #closeup #eastcoastkin #insect #ant #selectivefocus

A bright red flower in sharp focus is open wide, with a yellow interior and a single ant on one of the petals. Other flowers around and behind it are out of focus.

May 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM

John Meyer

@johnme23.bsky.social

Crossvine takes over: Old Lake Highlands, Dallas, TX

#flowers #crossvine #springblooms #colorful #nature #urban #landscape

A thick blanket of bright red blooms is wrapped around a light pole in the front yard of a house. The sidewalk leading to the front door cuts across the scene diagonally.

April 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM

AgNOme

@nworthen.bsky.social

An anole lizard hiding in some crossvine leafs

May 2, 2026 at 7:41 PM

AgNOme

@nworthen.bsky.social

Esperanza is growing again, crossvine is blooming, carrots are sprouting, and I saw the first backyard spiny lizard of Spring.

A yellow and salmon colored crossvine flower

March 4, 2026 at 11:55 PM

Misha

@mercurialgirl.bsky.social

It looks like crossvine is considered native to PNW? My dad accidentally cut through the main stalk of my grandmother's once and it's bounced back well, might be an option?

July 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM

GardenWild Guy

@gardenwild.bsky.social

I considered getting some American wisteria, ive never actually grown it before, but decided to wait 🤔 i love the invasive type lol reminds me of childhood tbh that and crossvine-both. Visually they look sosimilar, is it mainly just growth rate in terms of palpable difference?

March 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM