Specialty Gardening: Growing moonflowers in zone 5b, 1 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
I must have been enormously lucky the first year, I planted them directly outdoors in the ground. Haven't had a repeat performance like that since. They were gorgeous, I had an arch entirely covered in them. I thought maybe I would try growing them in big containers, maybe two gallon size, and starting them inside and putting them out when the weather warmed up. This was taken in early August and only one or two blooms had opened, and of course, this was daytime. They grew down to the ground on the other side of the arch, and sometimes I had twenty or more blooming at the same time. Pure luck. I had no clue what I was doing.

Edited to tell you that you do NOT see that large grassy weed on the lower left of the photo. It is not there. Really.

This message was edited Aug 13, 2009 6:41 PM