Once you plant morning glories you will never have to plant them again :) I have been spending the last month on morning glory patrol trying to keep them out of a "cottage" type bed I have. Every year the morning glories and the wild morning glories/bindweed? takes over that bed. I'm giving it one more year with diligent m/g patrol to see if I can get that bed to succeed without being choked to death. If not, that bed will need to be rethought. I do let them grow on my fences, in spots.

Hyacinth Bean is supposed to grow well here in MI z5, gets quite large. It is an annual. Our local Garden Column writer had an article on it a while ago, as a suggestion for next summer. I think the flowers are pink. Moonflower might be a night-blooming vine to think about. Looks like white Morning Glory. Scent is very attractive for some folks. Also an annual. You might try starting some things from seed, get a head start. I always bought my Cardinal plants, so they got bloom time, were growing well before the end of summer. Clematis is a great vine, comes in many colors and various flower shapes. It is a perennial, so it can take a couple years to really get going well. However the flower reward is worth it, in my opinion. There are 3 bloom periods, which the different named plants can use. Some are early season, others mid-season, while others bloom in late summer, early fall. Just check the labels, so you know which time to expect bloom, when to trim the vines back. Lots of good information on the Clematis forum here on GW. I have had great luck with the clematis plants with Polish names, Pope John Paul II, and a purple one, can't remember it. Terrific bloom over long time period, starting the first year. I was pretty surprised at that. Has just gotten even better since!

Oooh, I didn't know you meant the perennial vine!! Seeds are all OVER the annual ones, by the hundreds, but now that I think about it, I haven't seen them like that on the perennial one. I had to get mine from a cutting, too. Evelyn, I have one of these planted on my fence but it is a spindly little thing yet. I can't wait for it to look like YOURS!! Lovely! Marcia

Okay, any help that I can get would be greatly appreciated. I have started moonflowers early indoors. They came up and were doing fine and then they fell over. I have one left, which I put outside and it's trying to be ok. I have started more outside, but no results. Is there something that I am doing wrong here? I started morning glories in both containers and right in the soil and they are going to town? Just don't understand it. Not all the seeds for the Moonflower were obtained at the same time or the same place so I don't think the seed is tainted. This is my first experience and it's been pretty dismal! Any help greatly appreciated.