No, don't use a towel..get a coffee filter, easier to handle..and put your seeds in it. Drop the whole thing into a shallow dish like a custard cup and cover with water. Let them soak there until they show some white bits. I pour off the water the next day and pour fresh water over them, but I use the same filter. I've had some in a filter for a week or more, and they are still good to go. But they are no longer in water, just the damp filter. In that case it's like a damp towel. But I'd start them COVERED in water for more than a couple of days. I'm sure you'll have great success as I did, unless the seeds are old. And you will know in a couple of days, I promise you. I just noticed looking at that pot, the new leaves make it look like dragon flies hovering..and I have it with the most beautiful little day lily tuft. Even now they are gorgeous to me! Just get a well draining good potting soil. You can set them out in the ground if you want once they have rooted well, but pots are so much easier to control, imo.

You probably received all the morning glory heavenly blue seeds you want. If not I have those and the Mexican Hat seeds I can send you. I would love to trade. I'm interested in Salvia apiana "white sage"/smudge stick sage oenothera incana "silver blade" cleodendrum myricoides (south african butterfly) datura devil's trumpet double blackcurrant swirl monkeyflower bush (orange) butterfly iris hyacinth bean vine "ruby moon" I have a list at Dave's Garden under cashclan, hope you will check it out and see if there is anything you are interested in. I would LOVE to trade. Thank you Sharon Cash~Gold Trader (on PlantSwap) Zone 7

I looked at my pictures from last year, and I have June 4 recorded as the first bloom or at least when I took the first picture. That seems pretty early to me now, but this spring has taken longer to get going. Here's a pic of it toward the end of June. After this, it grew and grew and grew. I think I needed more support for these, as by the end of summer my hanging baskets were about to fall over. I wish I could find the picture my mom gave me of hers. They were really given the room to stretch and take off on a more solid structure. Here's a pic of MG Cameo Elegance. It's a little more pink in color than the picture shows. The MG Heavenly blue flowers were prettier IMO, but the foliage of the Cameo Elegance is nice and the vines shorter.

Hi Penny: I have grown Heavenly Blue several times, including this summer, and they never produced seed like other varieties in this zone. I don't know if other zones have the same experience. In any case, the flowers only last one day, and are best in the a.m. I am wondering what kind of arrangements they would be useful for. I usually get my seeds at the dollar store, 3 packets for one dollar.