How do you compare Morning Glories to sweetpeas? I have grown some sweetpeas up a trellis at my house and they vigorously reseed to the point that I'm a little tired of them now. I've never had morning glories though but I think they are lovely. I purchased a few seed packets of Morning glories and two orange honeysuckle plants that I want in my garden somewhere. Without a wall anywhere available to put a trellice (have clematis & sweet peas growing into a trellice on the back of my house), I'm not quite sure how to incorporate them? Any ideas. A trellice in the lower garden doesn't seem quite right? I had thought the bushes on this hill might make a decent backdrop. I could try to find an ornamental gate that I could put in the hill between two well pruned bushes with a very small path going nowhere but looking like it does. Sample of the type of trimming I'm thinking of doing on the hill: and put the morning glories on that. As a child, I remember my mom had them growing into a chain link fence and it was so pretty. Maybe I could start a path into the hill with a decorative gate in front of it and grow the morning glories in to that? And 'after' I feel like I'm able to handle the hill garden I could start removing plants and actually use the gate to go into the wooded area with paths as you suggest. The path in front goes to an area of our garden, we call lilac hill as there are dozens & dozens of reseeded lilacs up there. Its heaven in the spring. We also built a really cute garden in a shadier spot that I have yet to plant this year (planned on the center full of the tuberous begonias and shady perennials mixed with possibly impatiens on the outside of the path) Again behind all of this are the same bushes/rasberry vine that grows wild in the woods above the hill: But morning glories don't like shade right?

This is the 2nd year, not concesutive, that I have grown MG's. The first I put in a brick planter on my front (covered porch), they grew and had a few flowers, but I think I only planted a few seed packs. This year. . . I broke all the rules according to this post. . . I put 5 FIVE ! ! ! packs in a bed right by my front steps, there were hostas there when I sowed the seeds (I moved them to shade) so the seeds were kinda in groups when they sprouted. Soon they grew into small mounds, then I realized I needed to give them something to grow on so I put bamboo stakes in the ground right behind each mound, I never got around to tieing string for support, so they grew up the bamboo, literally in ropes, intwined together, one got so heavy the bamboo broke ! Now late Aug, they are spawling on the sidewalk, they have been blooming since early july, each mound is over 4' tall and three mounds fill a narrow 5'long bed so the ground never sees sunlight.They are in kinda rocky ground, full hot afternoon sun, I soak them everyday with a spray nozzle on my hose, and every morning I have at least 30 flowers, but they close as soon as the direct sun hits them. I think mine are heavenly blue. I like the look of them, but I think I would have done it different had I known. Maybe next time not as many seeds, and prepare for climbing.

I've grown a wide variety of different MG's on vinyl wire fencing for over 4 decades and have never once encountered any climbing MG that had difficulty climbing the mesh(!) of a vinyl fencing... Fishing line is much thinner and about as smooth as vinyl covered wire,so if a MG can manage to climb up an extremely narrow straight piece of fishing line,it would stand to reason that the twisting vine could climb the mesh of a vinyl fence... I've found that the vinyl covered fencing does not get as hot as the non-vinyl covered bare wire and consequently will not burn the vines...I would use the analogy of using car seats with a vinyl covering and ones that were bare metal...which ones would burn you more... Everyone shares from their own experience...I've never seen a climbing MG not be able to climb the mesh of a vinyl covered fence...in fact I've trained non-climbing trailers up into vinyl covered mesh... Enjoy your Morning Glories(!)... TTY,...

I received these seeds in a trade last winter and WS the seeds. They germinated with a variagated leaf, but seem to be more of a creeping on the ground vine. Can these be trained to go up a chain link fence? Is it a spreading ground cover and a concern as it would be invasive? I'll appreciate any info that you can give me.