My ivy leafed small light blue morning glories bloomed first and got to about four foot tall. The Early morning, or tall mix got tallest at about ten foot and bloomed much later. Because they needed to be sown after frost I didn't see a lot of difference between my direct sown and winter sown. I didn't use the best soil though and my drainage was bad. This year I'm doing more and will be direct sowing for ease of planting out.

My Old Glory is in a tub with two other fairly golden hosta. Until yesterday, it sat in this location where it gets morning sun and all day sun actually. But now I moved those golden hosta into the Back40 for safety beneath a shade covering. Not UP yet, but it soon will be. Meanwhile, I'll take another photo of Old Glory to give it individual attention. Yours is looking might fine.

Caroline, There are oodles and oodles and oodles of morning glories, many of which are old heirlooms (quite a few were AAS selections decades ago) but also new hybrids and quite a few from Japan, which used to be rare but are easier to find now. I've grown about 3 dozen different varieties over the years. If you want white flowers, watch for "Pearly Gates". Interplant them with moonflowers (Ipomoea alba) and you'll have white flowers in the morning and in the evening. If you want bright pink flowers, try the the new Candy Pink, which is slightly darker than pink cotton candy. There's also Tie-Dye Pink, which does indeed have a pink-and-white tie dye pattern, and Mini-Bar Rose, which is a dwarf morning glory great for pots and it has variegated foliage. If you want blue, there's always Heavenly Blue, but also Tie Dye Blue, Mini Blue Sky, Giant Flying Saucer/Flying Saucer (white with a blue star), Milky Way (similar to flying saucer), Blue Star (light blue with dark blue star), and Ismay (light blue with dark blue star). If you want red, there's Scarlett O'Hara, a normal morning glory, or the more exotic Sunrise Splendor/Split Personality (same flower, I think, sold under 2 different names), which has split petals, Rosita, which is red with a white star and white picotee, or Crimson Rambler (carmine red with white throat). If you want an orange to orangey-red, there's "Sunspots" which has TINY tubular flowers and looks different from other morning glories. If you want purple, there are many, including Grandpa Ott's (deep purple with red star and a glossy pinkish-red throat), President Tyler (dark velvety purple with a white throat and deep maroon star), Star of Yelta (deep bluish-purple with pink eye and purple throat), Kholian's/Kinolian's Purple (very deep purple, almost maroonish-black). Grandpa Ott's blooms very early, but President Tyler blooms ever earlier. Then, there's the mixes, which tend to combine many colors (generally in shades of blue, lilac, purple, violet, red, white and bi-colors, picotees and streaked flowers). Some of the mixes available are Tall Mixed Colors, Early Call, Old Heirloom Morning Glory Mix, Tricolor Mix (a dwarf), Celestial Mix, Zeeland Mix, Sunrise Mix. The most special mix of all is Mt. Fuji mix, which combines sky blue, violet, royal purple, pink and deep crimson with white, and all these colors have a white picotee. One of the more unusual ones is Chocolate (Ipomoea nil) which is a pale chocolate color and has huge flowers. Another unusual one is Carnevale venezia, which has striped blue and striped pink on white. There's also convolvulus, a dwarf bushy type, often sold under the Ensign line (Ensign White, Ensign Blue, Ensign White, or Ensign Mix) and these are the colors named but with a white/yellow throat. There's a similar Convolvulus Enchantment Mix. There are others, but the one's listed above are the ones most commonly found in seed catalogs. Most retail stores or nurseries, though, only carry seed for about a half-dozen or so, usually the more common ones like Heavenly Blue/Clarke's Heavenly Blue, Pearly Gates, Scarlett O'Hara, Early Call Mix, Blue Star, Tye-Die Blue or Tie Dye Pink or Candy Pink. Doesn't the above list make you want to grow morning glories everywhere? Dawn

It depends on the type of bindweed. The one that grows long vines with pointed dark green leaves and wants to climb is easy to yank out as you say as long as you catch it early. The one that has low spreading growth with lighter green small leaves has immense root systems that flourish underground long before you see any top growth. It is absolutely wicked to try to remove by hand - nearly impossible. When you see a public field that is dotted with low white blooms you are seeing a field with a rampant low bindweed problem (I don't know the scientific name difference). I was maintaining a garden for an organization where that latter type of bindweed got a foothold. I double and triple dug that bed down to 8" and still had the bindweed resurface relentlessly. The only thing that stopped it was Roundup. I agree with the previous posters that chemicals have their uses and even for an organic gardener like me this is a time when I reluctantly rely on Roundup. Cynthia