Morning Glories: today's mail loot, 1 by Txwillie

Txwillie wrote:
Jude, it's good to hear of your interest in native MGs. Hope you are successful in getting a start in some of your AZ desert natives. My experience in contacting AZ growers is that most of them show some interest in native MGs, but have very little if any knowledge of them. Maybe if you put out a lot of feelers, who knows what may turn up.

However, it appears that many of these native MGs will be found growing in areas that most city dwellers don't frequent. Hunters, rock hounds, forest rangers, game wardens and other outdoors type people are the ones who get back into the out of the way places where they have survived the encroachment of civilization. Most of the people who go back into these areas may notice wild MGs growing, but don't know or care about what they are. Kinda like one time I was with a Texas farmer and asked him about the ID of a flowering plant growing at the edge his field. His response, "I just call it a WEED". Chances are good that they won't surface in your metropolitan area, but who knows. Never knows when seeds may get deposited by a wayfarin' bird, so be on the lookout.

I live in a city with 200,000+ population. The picture is one of a wild MG, called Texas Bindweed, that showed up in the alley behind my house. The blue blooms are from a domestic MG, but the leaves are wild MG on the fence.



Good luck in getting a start and let us know if you have success.


Perry L. Williams

This message was edited Oct 27, 2006 9:50 AM