Birdhouse and Flowers - BLInspirations

When we purchased our house, the previous owners had a satellite TV dish mounted on a metal pole in the backyard. As we were not going to use satellite TV, we removed the dish and placed a tractor tire around the pipe to use as a flower bed. I mounted a bluebird house on the top of the pipe and added some wood bars to make a trellis for the climbing plants below.

The plant in the photo is a black-eyed susan vine, which later completely enveloped the trellis. The black-eyed susan vine (Thunbergia alata) is a tropical perennial that grows as an annual flowering vine in our region. The featured photo was taken in mid-September 2021.

In the photo below which was taken three weeks later, the black-eyed susan vine completely envelopes the trellis and the flower bed is mostly covered with sweet potato vine (Ipomoea batatas), which is a fast-growing annual. The vines are related to edible sweet potatoes but are only ornamental as they are very bitter. The pole and tractor tire planter are now part of a pollinator garden we are creating and the final image shows it in July 2023 with milkweed and catmint (nepeta) in the tire.