Morning Glories: Morning Glories 2010 #18, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Emma - I grew one of your Plum Shadows from seed several years ago. The one I am growing this year came from Antoinette and it doesn't appear to be the same. It's much larger and has the stripes as well as the rays. I think Plum Shadows has become the typical name for those purple rayed blooming vines. Some don't even have the rays, just a plum color. LOL!

This is a Plum Shadows bloom on a vine that I grew from seed from you 3 years ago. The color appears different than your photo above. I shared seeds with others and many folks just got plain plum colored blooms without the ray pattern. Some were small 3-4" blooms. So it was either crossed again or had recessive genes show up in future generations. The seeds from mine didn't come true, unfortunately.