Ria, I go back and forth on this one, stuffed skirts or well separated ones. It depends on the form, symetricallity (is that a word?) I think. I love NH Double Peach, well separated skirts and huge blossoms, too. And my little white Gemini stays mostly stuffed, but once in a while the skirts separate, and that makes it interesting. Well, like I said my opinion flucuate day to day! I think the second blossom should be perfect! Yes, Shawn, you get advance notice on some pink varieties! Glad you like, Kathi. Let's hope she stays this nice!

Wow, that is a surprise! Very beautiful seedling clump. I know that if I saw a clump of Song Writer, that would be my favorite picture here, but your seedling clump is stunning! I'm sure seeing this surprise brightened your day:) Vickie

Violet, this bed has been planted for several years. The only new addition was the native aster planted a couple of years ago. I have taken lots of pictures of this bed and the aster was never there before. I have had lots of strange things in my gardening year. For instance, I planted my usual white-seeded pole bean Kwintus this year on the hoop house frame. When I did my first picking I saw lots of long, slender, 'round' podded beans along with the flat Roma-like Kwintus. I am letting seeds mature now and the new round one is a light brown color........I had only planted Kwintus last year and besides this was new seed this year. I am assuming Park's source had a cross last season.

Can you post photos of the plants so we can see what species you have (?)...the leaves , flowers, sepals would be very helpful... There are thousands of different species in The Morning Glory Family of Convolvulaceae and they are NOT all invasive... The people who 'automatically state that all Morning Glories are all invasive have experience with at best a couple of species (which they usually cannot even properly identify) and then proceed to apply their experience of 'invasive' upon the entire Family...which isn't exactly accurate... The web is full of vast amounts of dis-information about Morning Glories... Look forward to your photos which are worth a thousand words...