It's Morning Glory time!!! A few pics...

Garden_Momma

18 years ago

They are nw beginning to bloom for me...Love it!

Please enjoy....

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littlepockets
18 years ago
Beautiful! Okay what's your secret? Mine are puny, not as big as they should be.Mine are in fair to good soil. I blame
the heat. Also I planted red,white & blue together and only the red is blooming.
Willie
18 years ago
Good pictures. Thanks for giving us a look!
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Ah ha, tis what I thought. They sort of look like this one, sort of look like that one, sort of look like none we've seen before, but they sure are pretty and the fun will be, seeing what they produce next year. Sometimes I've found they stay stable or stay stable for a few years and sometimes they aren't stable at all or after a few years, it's a brand new bloom. I've got one of those that just isn't stable and never know what it will bloom, except that it stays a purple shade with white. It's some kind of variant of a MT Fuji purple, resembles but different. First year bloomed one way. second year bloomed different this year a third change, and bloomed today, but didn't get outside in time to get a pic of the this years bloom. Really waiting to see on this MG this year what I really will get from 3 vines from last years on this one. I've only grown one vine the last 2 years. This year decided to do a couple and see what happens. 3 vines going, but only 1 has bloomed so far. Fran
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ARUM
18 years ago
So pretty, never get tired of seein em! :) arum
susanlynne48
18 years ago
GardenMomma - love that big solid blue MG! What is the name of it? Is it really as blue as the pic? BTW, gorgeous pics, too!

Susan
Garden_Momma
Original Author
18 years ago
Thank you all for looking....

littlepockets no secret, but I did have trouble getting them started, this was the 2nd, 3rd time that I planted before they decided to grow. I still don't have as many to get that full look like last year...

susan, I think that is a Clark's heavenly blue from the American Seed co, the one on the teepee is a heavenly blue from Martha Stewart and it really is that color of blue. I didn't realise that different companies can have a difference in color of blooms...

Thanks again, all...

G_M
ARUM
18 years ago
GM, I love that first pic. It really helps to get a good visual of what your garden looks like. The hazyness in the back ground, and the the vividness of the MG is really done well,it really creates a "feeling"! . :) arum
Bonbon_N_KS
18 years ago
It reminds me of the lazy days of summer. I can hear the locusts. Beautiful, Garden Momma.
baci
18 years ago
The third one is pink with a white throat & ivy leaf. I grew one like that last year. Do you know what the name of it is?

Thanks
skippy05
18 years ago
That big, beautiful, blue flower looks like it is just
floating above everything! Looks like a space ship hovering in the air! It is gorgeous
Thanks for sharing!
Garden_Momma
Original Author
18 years ago
Bonbon, you do hear the locust, crickets and whatever else critter-bug out there.

Baci, I'm not sure what the name of that one is. I planted a pack of Crimson rambler (NK lawnand garden) and a pack of Dwarf Early Call (American seed)ths pack had different colors in it. Actually that just started growing out of no where, cos a few packs didn't take the 1st or 2nd time...

Did I mention that teepee one is from ONE plant? That was another surprise. I had them in pots and thought they hadn't taken so I dumped the dirt into my garden and 'willaw'...

Arum, you're right about 'never getting tired of seeing them!
mombo
18 years ago
That deep blue is a stunner!
ARUM
18 years ago
The blue one looks like Heavenly Blue. :) Gorgeous!

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