Morning Glories: If I were to get a Knolia's Black?, 1 by bluespiral

bluespiral wrote:
paraphrased: "Why don't I post pictures?"

There was the onus of living within one's means while living on fixed, limited income that just couldn't justify buying a digital camera. Plus, I was quite content with that meeting place of gardening and wordsmiths like Henry Mitchell, Vita Sackville-West, Stephen Lacey, etc. Photographs seemed to interfere with dreaming. Several feet of snow will carpet Death Valley before we bring a TV into our house.

I just had no idea when I visited this forum one fateful day in 2005 asking if anyone wanted to swap morning glory seeds for a rooted cutting of Thunbergia alata 'Raspberry Smoothie'. Emma responded, and her seeds revolutionized my concept of what a morning glory can be; Ron has revolutionized all my horticultural and various intellectual horizons; and all of you have a lot to answer for with regard to the substitution of this displaced Frugal Yankee's tomatoes with morning glories - lol

Well, one thing has led to another and I don't believe we would have acquired a DC a couple of weeks ago if not for y'all's influence. 2 days ago I figured out how to take pics with it, so since there are no flowers, yet, here's some vines of Emma's Ipomoea nil "maybe TieDye" hopefully heading up to its half of an arch crossing a path. A seedling daylily blooms in the forground, with 'Jakob Kline' beebalm beyond. Where the ground drops off below "maybe TieDye", you can see part of the mess on our patio ensuing from last winter's wintersowing efforts - The Wintersowing Forum has a lot to answer for, too, heehee.

So, with more thanks to everyone on this forum than I can express, for the strange and beautiful evolution our garden has taken since arriving here - here's my first digital camera picture -