Some morning glory seeds are supposed to be poisonous or give the effect of taking LSD so that may be where the "man in the ground" name came from...just guessing lol. I haven't grown either of these. They look interesting though. I grow lots of morning glories...mostly Japanese.

You might also ask your questions on the Vines Forum. There's a poster there - ron_convolvulaceae - who's specialty is the morning glory family (hence his chosen name). I don't believe he's responded in a while so perhaps he no longer follows that forum, but it's worth a try.

Hi Writersblock

I don't know if these vines are the same or not but the two of them are beautiful but very aggressive.

I got this morning glory vine last year at a plant sale in Winter Garden but since it was taking over the other side of the fence, I took it out. Maybe I will buy it again and put it somewhere else because I like that it was easy care and pretty.

And this other vine blue sky vine was growing in the house of the vodoo queen in Jamaica

I grew from seed the white sky vine and it was so aggressive that I had it in the wrong place, the white flowers were not so pretty against the white fence either.

Silvia

Ah yes, the Voodoo Queen!

Thanks, everyone.

That's an interesting theory, sultry. Makes as much sense as anything.

Thanks very much for the suggestion, juneroses. I'll certainly ask over there.

Hi, Silvia. Thanks for your suggestions, and gorgeous pics, as always. Yes, I know both of those, but the Key West morning glory has very small dark blue flowers about the size of a quarter. (I don't know why they call it skyblue vine when the flowers are much darker than that--maybe it's lighter in the wild depending on soil conditions.)

It's a FL native from extreme southern FL. I was surprised to see it growing so happily up here, but the house where it looked best was right on the river so I doubt they ever have any kind of hard freeze. They also had a lot of mamey and other tropical fruits that can be a bit tricky up here.

Even at the other house which was growing it, which was fairly near the water but in what tends to be a slight cold pocket, it was not nearly as dramatic, although still very pretty.

I know it can grow in PB county, but in the wild it never even grew as far north as Broward, mostly southern Dade, Collier, Monroe. Much smaller plant in all ways than either of those--leaves are smaller, too.

Writersblock, thank you for clarifying the difference between the vines. If it grows in Key West, I probably saw it and don't remember. I just remember the butterfly place, the chickens at the street and the bars.:)

Tom, it was Marie Laveau house, interesting story about the ghosts there, nice and big place by the water, the floors creaked! lol

Silvia

Thanks, Silvia. I know it grows in the botanical garden there, so probably in the butterfly conservatory as well, but it blooms off and on all year so maybe wasn't flowering when you were there.

Hi writersblock,

Please let me know what you come up with. Saturday after picking my wife up from her green market booth we stopped at a house in the neighborhood that was part of the tour, we live in Rocky Point. Unfortunately the tickets were all a pre-event sale. We would be very interested in finding a good native pollinator. Thanks Craig

Hi, Craig. Sure, if I can find out anything I'll let you know. It's basically crickets so far in the vine forum, so I guess they don't know it, either. I need to go down to S Miami soon, so maybe I'll swing by Fairchild and see if they have anything to say.

EDIT BTW, you could have gotten tickets at Cove Gardens. I don't know why they didn't tell you so.