Vera, keep us up to date on that puny little MG vine. Maybe it's a mutant. My Sunrise Serenade completely covered the vine pole, and then some; it cascaded down in every direction after it reached the top. It was truly exciting to see and enjoy. The seeds I sent you were from those flowers. I wish I had not deleted all of the pictures I took of it, but I consolidated my files when I did a back-up floppy to install on the new computer. Last year, I grew some Heavenly Blue and some Star of Yelta, and this year I had a couple of volunteers from those plants, so I'm letting them grow up the vine pole. I won't know what I have growing until the blossoms start. Mary

Hi, Annie. I bought the pack of seeds at the local RKO (Rural King of Ohio) store. It's a farm store and the pack is from Livingston Seed Co. I thought maybe I would try planting them in a big pot or urn with a trellis to climb on in a corner of the sunken garden, to provide more privacy. There is also a piece of wrought iron fencing in that corner, so I could use that as a trellis, too.

I love Morning Glories too, and they will almost grow themselves, but what are you growing them up? If it is a trellis, or some sort of wire that has fairly large openings it is good...but if you're planning to put them on chainlink fencing, or chicken wire....beware!!! MG tendrils grow up and around any and every conceivable wire...which is a delight to the eyes....but miserable to remove come fall. I've even left it up over winter thinking the stems would soften by spring: they don't. It takes alot of finger strength and time to untwist each and every little tendril off the fence. With larger fencing you can sort of yank it down, clip, yank, clip, yank.

I am new to hostas. I have a home now with a large shady area. wanting to make a nice shade garden. I have a mix of nice Japanese morning glory seed. a few aristolochia fimbriata seeds, has nice foliage makes a good ground cover. Or i will trade starts of the few plants i have.