Now that’s a pile o’morning glories!
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Beautiful! And please post more updates on your basket 'glories too! I will be starting my seed in cups soon. Too cold a spring to put them in the ground yet.
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Basket update
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This one hasn't bloomed yet. I planted it later than I did my Grandpa Otts in the hanging baskets. I'm pretty sure it's Flying Saucer. Anyway, it looks like it's going to grow over a beam and into an old shed.
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Looks like it likes its pot! Doing great!
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Spooky, what exposure are they getting?
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Not full sun, except for maybe a few hours in the afternoon. I find that very few things can tolerate our full sun. My Indigo Spires salvia and my Wendy's Wish salvia do not like full sun...they wilt in it but recover after the sun goes away. I've got pentas blooming beautifully in partial shade and they are recommended to be put in full sun.
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Right ... I would have been amazed if they were getting a strong dose of direct sun.
The petunias and other flowers on my patio are baking away but I water them a ton, and replace once they get too toasted. The clump of Amistad Salvia, out in the pollinator garden, is on its 3rd year and now seems impervious to wilting. I make sure I water the WW and Love and Wishes when it gets really bad. |
This spring I took a saw to a potted Amistad to separate it. I cut it in half and all of the middle is quite woody. I wanted to reduce a large plant to a reasonable size that wouldn't require a monster pot to do well. One in the ground is sprouting really well even after a harsh winter but I did keep a cover over it to prevent it from getting soggy wet.
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Flying Saucer and Glacier Star
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I planted some hanging baskets and one container of morning glories this season. They are doing okay, but they are not what I call thriving. I think I need to grow them in more sun than they are getting. So I'm going to start some more seeds today. I'm also going to add some Perlite to the potting mix like the internet suggests so they have a more loosely draining soil.
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The flower colors are so nice!
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Yes, the pale blue shades are my favorites! Nice photos!
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Additional varieties
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Thanks for the nice comments. Today I picked up the following seed packets. The seeds are currently soaking in water and I'll plant them tomorrow.
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Another Flying Saucer
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This was so pretty I just had to post it.
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Wow, it’s enormous!
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The internet says these can get from 5 to 6 in across.
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I have lots of "Heavenly Blue" morning glory seeds if anyone is interested. Send me a SASE for the seeds. Can PM here or email me at [email]nativegarden417@gmail.com[/email]
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That blue is stunning.
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[QUOTE=SpookyShoe;729130]Nice photos![/QUOTE]
I have too many Morning Glories on all my farming Properties farmed by Contraband Slaves. I let every variety of flowers grow on Shepard Mallory property until I can Identify them, and like his Aunt Molly growing all over the place. It took me 6 years of research to Identify the Aunt Molly. I have tried to transplant them to my other farming properties just 1 mile away, but they will not grow in the sandy soil. I may have the time now to post some pictures and maybe save the seeds, Amen. Maybe it will not take 6 years with the help from everyone here when I post the pictures. |
Ensign Blue bush morning glories
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I picked up this seed packet yesterday. I saw on the packet that this was a mounding morning glory which grew only 6 in tall and 12 to 18 in wide. However, doing some internet searches I found that bush morning glories can grow 4 to 5 ft wide and have a very large taproot. Some sites say that bush morning glories are annuals while others say they are perennials.
I'm not going to be planting these this summer, maybe next year. Has anyone had experience with bush morning glories? |
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Can anyone tell me what type of Flower or Fruits this it? |
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Can anyone tell me what type of Flower or Fruits this it?[/QUOTE] Looks like pokeweed! |
[QUOTE=kunosoura;739874]Looks like pokeweed![/QUOTE]
Thank you so Very much. I need this area to plant extra Dr. Carolyn plants as I had let these plant return until I Identified These strange Plants. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca_americana[/url] From what I have read the Contraband Slaves must have used this plant for Medicine but is "Toxicity and Poisoning. So I will leave two plants for historical reasons along with the PawPaw tree that was almost destroyed by a Hurricane in 2016. I will try not to destroy the Morning Glories growing around them. Thank you so much. I will work hard to get all my Dr. Caroline Tomatoes Plants out of their growing pots today in the very hot sun, Amen!! Amen!!!!:D |
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Amen!!!:) |
We always called it "poke salad". We ate it like turnip greens...had to blanch and drain it first, though...my Dad would eat the berries...said it did wonders for the arthritis in his hands and knees....
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That's funny I've heard of poke salad but never knew anybody who actually ate it. Do you go for young plants, or how does that work?
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Unknown morning glory
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This is from a hanging basket I trained to grow up into a tree. I have no idea what the name of this one is because I planted it from a packet of mixed variety seeds.
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Morning glories in hanging basket
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If you don't have room for the plants in the ground and you fear that the plants will become invasive if you plant them in your garden area, go up up up. This is a hanging basket and the vines grew up the chains of the basket and are growing nicely in the lower branches of the tree.
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I will do baskets next year, turns out the deer thought they were a delicacy and nibbled them down all summer so they never got a chance to put up vines, let alone flowers out in the freestanding flower bed. My own fault, I never got the deer netting put up around it, that garden is so weedy it really needs to be dug up to start over.
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I Googled morning glories and there are just lots of ideas out there on how to grow them... lots of imaginative ways to do it.
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