Morning Glories: Sharing from my collection, 1 by mountainmeadowseeds

mountainmeadowseeds wrote:
Hello everyone!
I'm responding for Christy and myself, we both love reading the posts from everyone. Thanks for all the kind words, it's fun to share with others who appreciate the same.

KayJones - the yellow morning glory is what myself and others who helped me ID this vine is Ipomoea lutea, a variety of the I. coccinea I am open to any other ideas. This is the best we were able to determine. The flower structure is the same as the coccinea and also called the Orange Noah morning glory. What's interesting with this vine is it has two different shaped leaves growing on the vine. One is the typical spade shape and the other is the ivy shape. I've can't remember ever coming across any other vines with both shapes like this one.

Emma - Oh yes we have many more to show, but those were the ones I liked most. We grew many in hanging baskets this year and they sold like crazy out of our nursery this year. The Minibar Rose (a.k.a. Cameo Elegance) also was a hot seller for us this year. If you haven't grown them in hangers, try them next year you'll love the performance. One secret is to keep them cut back for best continuous blooming.

Joseph (Gerris2) - thank you for the encouragement on the photos. I am the photo taker. My wife picks the flowers out for me to photo and yes these do get put on our seed packets ;) I think I enjoy the photo taking as much as I do growing the plants. It's like the grand finale of the growing season, lol. Thanks again!

Laurrie - thanks so much.....didn't we say we'd send you some seeds for something in a previous email or post? I am so sorry, but Christy seems to remember me saying something like "Don't let me forget to send these to Laurrie". Typical for me to forget, but what are wives for, lol. Do you remember what it was Laurrie? If you can remember I'll get them out to you. If it wasn't you then it must mean I am losing more brain cells as each day goes by, lol. Oh and btw the Lotus seeds you sent us a few years ago grew nicely this year. the water garden is finally finished and I tossed a bunch of your seeds in the pond and they started growing nicely. You think the plants will winter over here in our zone 5? I think we are too cold. I still have more seeds if they are still fresh we will find out next season.

PerennialGirl (Donna) - thanks for the kind words, we really appreciate it. The pink striped is compliments from Emma who sent us the seeds. they are still blooming for us. the Alamo vine was grown in our greenhouse and it loves hot weather.

rh3708 - thank you for the compliment, we appreciate it very much. It's alot of fun to share with you all ;0

Thanks again,
Dennis & Christy

PS: EMMA I've included another photo from your morning glories this year, very nice indeed!!!!!