Morning Glories: Morning Glories 2010 #10, 1 by bluespiral

bluespiral wrote:
Emma - your picture here - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=7967853 - looks like the mg flower of the third vine that came from your Silky Blue seeds in 2007. A photo of that one is attached.

Both the lighter blue pictured above and this one produced tan seeds, while the darker brown one produced the darker navy blue flower as pictured above. There was a third kind of seed produced that was colored in equal blotches of tan and dark brown, of which I had very few, and have not grown out. (but I'm pretty sure, given my "seeds back"* policy that you would have gotten at least one of the calico seeds)

I think all of this is fascinating - I am so curious to know if everyone who got these seeds from me got a similar mixture of seed and corresponding flower colors. The idea that a particular range of variation might be stable from generation to generation - as opposed to just one color/pattern - is intriguing to me.

Karen

* I am an advocate of the "seeds back" policy, where you send a seed or two back to the gardener who sent you the parent seeds. Sometimes, due to whatever mishap, we lose a line of seeds, and I think, for this reason, the "seeds back" policy is a wonderful thing to do.