Morning Glories: Morning Glories 2010 # 22, 0 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Jackie - Oooh! What a nice blooming surprise! I wished I had a greenhouse! I have a lot of tropical plants and am concerned what I am going to do if we get another cold winter like we did last year. Everything is in containers, so I guess I will be doing a LOT of moving plants into and out of my garage! Ugh! What I don't do for the hummingbirds and butterflies! LOL!

Karen - I always thought that "feathered" or "hige" was just a description of the petalbloom shape on any given MG regardless of what species it is. Shows how much I know! LOL! Didn't the word "hige" come from Japan?

I gotta tell ya ... The weather here has been wonderful! I spent the late part of the afternoon potting up some hummingbird nectar plants. I continued working until after dark (8 pm) and boy was it divine! Low 60's! My kinda weather! :-)

I'm trying to get a bird bander to come to my home to band my hummingbirds. Ruby-throats are typically known to migrate. But I swear mine are year round residents here. I alway have the 2 females around my feeders and blooms except for a brief time in late Spring/early Summer. I think they are nesting and caring for babies at that time. I have been watching the aerial fighting going on lately as the migrating hummers come through on their way to Miami. (Or wherever they are going.) My females have been guarding their territories relentlessly and trying to chase off other hummers that want to make a pit stop to eat at the feeders or plants! LOL!

Anyway, a little off topic for the moment. Here is one of my I. purpurea vines with blooms.