Morning Glories: Saving seeds from MG's, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Sunny~
I got hooked on MGs and Ipomeas, adding a new one each year for the last 10 years. .The first year I had no idea how they would grow, I saw the photo on the package of "Heavely Blue" and just threw them around a Bradford Pear tree in the front yard. By July they had climbed all the way to the top, (about 24 feet). it was an awesome site and I was hooked from then on.
Since then I have planted, "Pearly Gates", "Granpa Ott" (The purple ones with the redish pink throat), and "Scarlet O'Hara". The Scarlet O'Hara are a very bright color of pink actually and Hatsu Japanese MG are fabulous color of royal blue-violet!! I also have grown the Tri-Color Convolvulaceae & Cypress Vine, and still learing a lot about what NOT to do, LOL.
I have found that all Ipomoeas do best when starting them indoors way before last frost, (late Jan-Feb). For instance, this year I planted my Moonvines (Which bloom in evening instead of morning), really late, and I am only just now getting blooms and the blooms are not doing near as well as in the previous 4 years. Also, my son planted some HBlue MG's at the end of first grade this May and they still haven't bloomed, yet the GOtt MG's sowed themselves from last year and I have hundreds of them now, go fig:)! GOtt are the most evasive of all imho, your husband might like Pearly Gates which are much easier to control, and they look beautiful with the purple.

Photo here is of the GOMG's that fell on good enough ground with no help from me..lol.
~Debnes