Morning Glories: Becky's MGs and Other Plants Part 8, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Jackie - I looked up the weblink on the Evening Glory: http://www.natureproducts.net/Forest_Products/Convolvulaceae... and it says that it blooms in the dry winter months. So it probably likes the cooler, drier climate to bloom. Which also may explain why it is getting yellow leaves that drop when we have a lot of rain here. It doesn't seem to mind the drier hot weather as long as it gets watered when it starts to wilt. I moved it into a bigger pot and added taller bamboo stakes for it to climb. Hopefully it will continue to thrive in this bigger pot. As far as daily growth, it rivals the I. indica vine! :-) I had no idea it was going to become such a lush vine. Though it is much smaller in leaf and vine size, but big on growth! It is one of my more attractive MG vines currently. :-) I really like it a lot!!! It is supposed to get small yellow clusters of blooms! Won't that be pretty?!

gardenpom - Love your pink coral vine. No bloom buds yet on mine. Do you fertilize yours?

I found another beautiful white bloom on the Passiflora "alba" incarnata. That vine is only about 20" tall. LOL! It has big aspirations, I suppose!

I also found out that the Caladium seeds pictured above are NOT the seeds, but the white fruit berries! Ha! The seeds are inside each berry. I have to open each tiny berry with tweezers and remove the teeny seeds. There are at least 2 - 10 seeds in each fruit. They are itty bitty seeds. Reminds me of strawberry seeds! Ack!!! But I love a good challenge, so I started one batch of seeds and will start the other today. I let the first batch dry out so they had to be tossed. (I didn't know...) I will have a LOT of Caladiums sprouting if my sowing works! :-) I love my caladiums. They bring so much color to my garden beds. I think I am going to use them as the constant repeat plant in my garden.

Oh! And I found out that my Variegated Spider plants (in my hanging baskets) also produce seeds as well as baby spider plants from the aerial runners. So I pulled off all the seed pods and collected seeds from them. I was reading where folks use them in their garden beds in the ground! That sure was an enlightening idea! I never even thought of growing them in the ground! Very cool! Here is one of two Spider plants in a hanging basket on my screen porch. Both have tons of babies hanging on to them and both bloom constantly! I have seeds if anyone is interested. Or maybe I should share the seeds in the group seed swap???