Morning Glories 2009 #15

The small flower speckled ones actually make seeds. I even thought about using one as a fertile parent,crossing it with the pollen (found after much vigilance)off the large flower Fujishibori and maybe eventually getting a more fertile large flower? After getting the grand total of 7 seeds off the Fujishibori the thought has crossed my mind.

Karen


This message was edited Sep 16, 2009 10:16 AM

Debra, Your small blue looks a lot like hederacea. I like the
Hot Lips salvia. The Salvia's I miss the most , Lady in Red and the one
T and M calls Cherry Blossom.

Helena's Gray Star. I've really enjoyed this one Helena, thank you.
The 2 different blooms on one vine.

Helena, forgot to say I like all your blooms but partial to the
little speckled bloom from Karen's mix.

Debra, Helena, and Jackie - You ladies have some very pretty blooms that you photographed. Here we are into September and you all still have blooms and vines going strong! I am glad to see so many beautiful flowers! :-)

Thanks Becky.

Look at this bloom today on 10-10. The
splash of red was so pretty.

Rosy Red Picotee, thanks Blue

Look!!!!!!!! Finally!!!! it was like.. OMG!!! I planted this seed in December for crying out loud.. It is way high in the bushes, and is about 6 inches across, looks like a moon out there... *sigh* I bet there are more on the other side of the fence that I am missing..

I do love all the fowers I have seen on here today.. I love the speckled one.. and the Asuka Shibouri is beautiful!
question? what makes a picotee a picotee? LOL
here is I. Linds' buds tonight... also beeen growing this one since december..I can't wait!

A different bloom today on this vine.
Purple Blizzard with stripes.

I found this lovely pale pink one on the south fence

Jackie isn't it funny how blue yours is compared to the one I have? Mine is really dark purple.. I like your blue oe.. save me a seed.. Plz?
the one above has a cholate tint.. i bet is the cocoa choclate from Becky..
Here is Blue Ray Mutant again it has been blooming away..

Debra, I'm growing one of Blues and one of Emma's Rosy Red Picotees. Neither one has a picotee border, lol Oh well.

Jackie, I have lots of lady in red plants and seeds, and lots of alot of other salvias.. just let me know and you can have..
they don't winter over here like the B&B and the B&B gold I have..
That pinkish brown one up there is the one I posted about the leaves.. it is now blooming there by the back door I hsd to pink and trim the big i.Purp leaves for there for this vine to grow..this is a jmg.. I am sure of that
here is another shot with leaf, flash drowns out the true colour..u can see the pink I. Purp next to it, I pinch those blooms off before they can pod out.. I have three huge curtains of those pink i. purps, that is enuff.. LOL

I have tons of the ten ten X jishi I can save for you.. it has joined the akatsu no mai, the lavender beauty and the miko no mai in the tomatoe patch..

Debra, I think the color just did not come true on the Purple Blizzard
pic. It really was purple. I will be glad to save you a few seeds. This one
is really variable which makes growing it a lot of fun. Never know what it will do.
Here it was 2 days ago. I will be checking the color more closely when it opens
again.
I love the pink blooms. Would love a few of your Lady in Red sds when we
swap.

The 10-10xJishi is lovely too., great color.

Thanks to Becky! ;D just remind me.. you too Caren.. of what you want of mine.. I am a little scattered today.. last night my old buick that pauline gave me dropped 31.00 worth of just filled gas all the way home, I cried so hard, it is prolly a loose hose or something in the fuel line, but anyway, today I bought a new Honda Civic, since I had one before and sold it last month..
geesh!, now I have a car payment and a car to fix for College girl who texted me to fix it plz.. oh, and when i got to work in my hubbies old cougar, they called me in to the office, and gave me a demo allowance ( to pay the car payment) and a raise in my salary.. good thing, since my hubby says they are going to close the plant he works at in november...
here is the new grow out patch #1...

Rebecca south fence threw two more blue blooms as a "good bye" to me today..
rebecca north fence along with Jaime lynn, the solid white, a nice lav purple i> purp, the SOH, the Roman Candy and I. plantesis are all going strong.. setosa, red cypress vine, and lobata fighting for fence space with the messina creeper and pink mg curtains.. I better get to bed, work tommorrow..

Debra, Wonderful news about your raise. Helps to offset your DH's bad news.We're still seeing the fall-out from last
yr's horrendous gas prices.

Pretty blooms Debra and Jackie.
Your welcome Jackie, I'm glad you like gray star. If that was and unusual bloom you should tag it Jackie.
I like your 10 10 and Purple blizzard Jackie.

Debra, Rebecca is one of my favorites too. I sowed a few seeds late so I'm still waiting for blooms.

Here's Lady Laura, very pretty today.

This is a NOID.

And Hannah.

wow nice blooms

Nice one too Mona.

Can anyone tell me what this is. It's growing all over along the roads here. Just a weed?

Helena, Maybe mile a minute vine. Not a weed to me, very pretty.
Like your Lady laura and Hannah
Mona lovely bloom.

Jackie, that's a good name for it. It fits it well.

Grab some seeds from that mile a minute for me would ya? I would pay for postage.. I love the lady laura.. nothing new today.. just lots of all the ones I have posted so far..

Helena, Yes please grab some seeds. It's really pretty.

Well it's not mile a minute vine. Mile a Minute, Ip Cairica has 5 lobed
lvs. Hopefully someone will come along and let us know what it is.
Edited to say I think it has palmate leaves.

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well, I love it.. helenahkh u lucky duck to find it!

Well, I thought they were pretty. I didn't see any seeds on them but I'll go back to look. I might take a cutting and try to start it that way. I can tell you that our city mowers will show no mercy when their mowing the grass along the roads and that one is so healthy looking growing along the road. The others are more into the ditches but I'll look.

Only one nice bloom today.

Another nice bloom Helena.
2 open today on Sarah's mutant. I need to repot this as it's in a
3 inch pot. Even then it could just quit blooming, same as
my Hattie Bell and a few others.

Thanks Jackie.

I went back to look for seeds, there some green pods on the older vines but they definitely are not ready. I'll keep going back every week and hope they haven't been mowed.

This is another site more into a ditch, the seeds there were not ripe either. So we'll have to wait. I thought these looked a bit darker.

Edited to say:
OK shoot me (just Kidding), forgot to say that I did get a few seedlings home so maybe I'll get it to grow in pots. The city will eventually mow even in the ditch.

This message was edited Sep 18, 2009 3:20 PM

It`s ipomoea cordatotriloba and we have those every year and they survive the city weed killer like troopers. I enjoy viewing them in the ditches but cannot allow them in my yard because they can very easily smother and kill my favorite crape myrtles.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/244054/

This message was edited Sep 18, 2009 7:25 PM

Jordin Rose, the other 2 or 3 blooms she threw were a lot darker

Well here is the last picture of pink flake that I have it had to be brought in today as we are expecting a frost this evening. I still have to keep it alive just until I have some seeds pods that are ready to be picked.

Jackie, Helena, Debra, and James - Lots of gorgeous blooms! Here it is the middle of September and y'all have tons of blooms still. That would be typical in the deep south here in south-central Florida, but most of you live far north of me! I hope y'all get plenty of seeds from your terrific blooms! :-)

I've been hand-pollinating every day before work. Some of my efforts have been paying off as I see nice, big seed pods forming on some of my vines. But ... the Diluted Fuji no Muraski is proving to be a challenge to get pods to form once again. Most of the pods are turning yellow or brown and falling off the vine. Not sure why, because the blooms have been producing lots of pollen. I remember it being discussed before that the self-pollinating of some fancy cultivars make the vines sterile. I am now thinking that may be the issue here. (Much to my utter disappointment!) I thought about trying to cross this cultivar and maybe I still will give that idea a go, but I really liked the blooms/vine just the way it is. So ... it will be interesting to see how many seeds I will actually get from this vine. This is becoming a rare cultivar because of this dilemma and I am rather baffled by this whole situation. But I press on ...

Jackie - I hope you have better luck with yours!!!

I am also seeing that the beautiful Japanese Sazanami and the two solid white NOID vines are NOT producing pods. (Pollen production has stopped on the whites!) The Sazanami is not producing pollen at all. I was crossing it with the white NOIDs, but now that is not possible either. So ... what to do, what to do?

It figures! that some of the most beautiful I am growing currently are sterile. Grrr ...

On the other hand, the smaller blooming vines are still giving me lots of pollen and I see pods all over the vines! :-) Fingers crossed that those pods don't fall off either. The temps here are still very hot. Maybe that is the problem. I am just not sure why this is happening ...

I've got numerous starts that are actually starting to bloom. Need to pot those babies up! LOL! I want to get some "freckled" vines blooming. I am debating whether to grow them indoors or start them in the 5 gallon containers and see what happens. Rust fungus is back. It's that time of year. (sigh) It seems like a mad rush now to get these vines going, blooming, and producing seeds! Fall is just around the corner and we never know whether we will get an early frost or the weather will stay nice until the end of November into December here in this zone of Florida. So the race is on and I am pushing these vines hard! :-)

Here is Diluted Fuji no Muraski.

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Mauve Splash is producing some interesting blooms. These blooms are medium size and I have not gotten a bloom flush on them yet. I just fertilized again with Bloom Booster to see if I can pump up the number of blooms.

This message was edited Sep 19, 2009 2:13 PM

Another photo of Diluted Fuji no Muraski. I really, really like this vine! Maybe it will surprise when it starts winding down and produce seed pods! I am sure hoping so, anyway! :-)

Bright Pink Kikyo!