Very very pretty - y'all have convinced me to try the Japanese MGs. I haven't tried any others except for Heavenly Blue because MG's are wild here but it is just the pink and purple - nothing fancy. I have seen some outstanding ones posted here and in photo albums Thanks for sharing..... Lynne

Willie, Are you sure that the plants are labled as "Heavenly Blues"? Lowes here in Clifornia sells a perennial MG known as "Blue Dawn Flower, Ipomoea acuminata, that looks very much like Heavenly Blues. The flowers are similar, but a bit larger; they generally have very lush foliage. The Blue Dawn Flower has "hairy" leaves, stems and sepals that actually makes me itch when I rub up against them, while Heavenly Blue is smooth. Mike

Arum...Thank you ...I could use a few seeds when harvest season comes around. The rain we got from hurricane Emily helped a whole bunch but this long summer of 100+ temperatures every day is doing a number on everything. Did I send you seeds for my yellow ipomoea ochracea? If so, how are they doing? Mine have literally taken over the back east side of my yard. They have climbed over the side gate trellis and other tendrils crawled under the side gate and onto another trellis that I have staked in the ground about six feet away on the east side of my house. So far lots of greenery but no sign of buds. I really do hope those put out blooms and harvestable seeds! I expect flowers in late fall...that's when they've always started to bloom. ~ Cat

njoynit - If you notice most of the splitting occurs along what would ordinarilly be the secondary folds >which is where the petal tissue fuses to form a single funnelform corolla... The very earliest forms of Morning Glories all had separate petals which eventually evolved to have the once separate petals fuse into a single funnel... Additionally as per Ipomoea nil and some other highly bred Ipomoea purpurea...some of these plants have corrola tubes that are simply not stiff enough to support the extra large corollas...resulting in the very commonly seen 'buckling' at some point along the tube and overly 'floppy' limbs where the flower is unable to open up for 'business' and basically looks like a 'blob of tissue'... Genes for splitting are also sometimes picked up and incompletely expressed >thus the usual type of fusing does not take place along the folds and this also causes some unexpected splitting of the corolla petal(s)... There are a multitude of reasons in addition to commonly experienced environmental variables (e.g.temperature extremes/rapid temperature fluctuations) which contribute to the reasons as to why the corollas can result in 'deformed' looking flowers... Basically >' It's The Nature of the Beast'... I also agree with the general comments offered by blue_velvet_elvis on the varying views regarding the aesthetic appreciation of plants,other lifeforms and any other natural or 'unnatural shapes and forms...... Hope that helps... TTY,... Ron