Morning Glories: Qualities of the ideal Japanese Morning Glory, 1 by zemerson

zemerson wrote:
Well, I like this thread!

Welcome to the MG forum, Arlan! JMGs are very addicting, last year was my first year and I have adzooks of seeds from trading (trading can be addicting to :) Many thanks to Emma especially :)

I've got to remind myself not to seedhound around all of these new pictures, lol :)

My ideal JMG would be red, lol, as there are very few if not none that have a true bright red color. Or if not bright red, a nice deep scarlet. The 'scarlett ohara' MGs are hugely varried and seem never to be the same but they are usually small, pink, and nonvariegated.

As, to field bindweed. Nature's design for that was perfect as a competitor. Bindweed is a fitting name. What I know as field bindweed is pink and white striped with long, thin, arrowhead shaped leaves and a rubbery stemm that smells bad when you break it. My "Audubon New England Field Guide" IDs it as Convolvulus sepium but I am not sure of this... I'll have to get some better photos next summer.

I also tried to collect some of the FB seeds, but wen I went back (to my house in RI) in the winter at my usual collecting time, The vines that were everywhere in the summer had vanished :( Although, I don't think I'll find a shortage of them in the summer... They always come back.

This is a picture of the plant i know as bindweed. (you can see the leaves and stem in the background)

-Zem




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