Morning Glories: Distrust of Morning Glory., 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Emma - Thank you so much!

As a newbie gardener, I hear a lot of conflicting info about various plants. I have learned much here on DG. I have room in my yard to do some real planting and I don't want Palm Trees ever again. (I am sooooo over Palms.) We lost the 3 we had during the double whammy of Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne. Thank goodness our 2 beautiful Oak trees survived just fine. I started gardening 2 years ago after that devastating fall and haven't looked back since. So many generous folks here on DG who have shared some truly awesome seeds with me. I garden for butterflies and hummers and joined the Butterfly forum here last October. That forum has helped turn my garden into a butterfly haven. (I'm still trying to attract hummers to my yard.) Which is where I met Cat (TexasPuddyPrint). I saw some of her photos of her morning glories and was blown away. So.... of course I lurked over here on the Morning Glory forum to see what I was missing and got VERY interested. I had NO idea there were so many varieties and colors and patterns of MGs. And I have recently obtained a number of seeds from several generous DGers and have already begun planting some of them. Of which they are coming up!

I have a backyard that I am transforming and I have a long fence run with some trellis I've attached to the fence. I intend to add the various MGs varieties to that back fence. Since MGs don't strangle trees, I am curious to know what you and others think about growing a morning glory or two up the trunk of one of my Oak Trees? There is a garden bed around this tree with purple vining lantana and blue wonder in it. But I'd love to grow some vining plants up the trunk of the tree as well. Would that be safe for my tree to use MGs?

Here's a photo of the tree. You can see the long bed along the back of the fence with plenty of beds for planting seeds in. I've done 5 seed beds and have 2 more empty bed left for seeds. (The other 4 beds are for container ponds because I love water gardening as well. Heck, I love it all! lol)

BTW - In the photo behind my backyard fence you can see ALL the Brazilian Pepper Trees growing in the vacant lot behind me. I am constantly cutting back those trees trying to keep them away from my yard. They grow so fast. I am disappointed that the MGs don't strangle trees. That would have been VERY convenient. lol

This message was edited Mar 24, 2007 4:48 PM