Moonflower in Morning

Just newly opened in my garden this morning, the first blossom on my moonflower plant. The scorching heat of the day will burn the tender petals to brown by day's end. So glad I took time early this morning to have coffee in the garden.

Little things...


 
 
  














UPDATE: Bill, who knows more about Texas horticulture than I ever will, pointed out that my moonflowers are also known as Jimsonweed. Upon further googling, I found this nifty little American history story:

"In 1676, British soldiers were sent to stop the Rebellion of Bacon. Jamestown weed (Jimsonweed) was boiled for inclusion in a salad, which the soldiers readily ate. The hallucinogenic properties of jimsonweed took affect.
As told by Robert Beverly in The History and Present State of Virginia (1705): The soldiers presented "a very pleasant comedy, for they turned natural fools upon it for several days: one would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and another, stark naked, was sitting up in a corner like a monkey, grinning and making mows at them; a fourth would fondly kiss and paw his companions, and sneer in their faces with a countenance more antic than any in a Dutch droll.

"In this frantic condition they were confined, lest they should, in their folly, destroy themselves - though it was observed that all their actions were full of innocence and good nature. Indeed they were not very cleanly; for they would have wallowed in their own excrements, if they had not been prevented. A thousand such simple tricks they played, and after 11 days returned themselves again, not remembering anything that had passed."

Wonder if old Capt. John Smith danced and howled at the moon?