These are off the plants I was complaining about not blooming a couple of weeks ago. They're making up for lost time, but most of the blooms are facing the window and are behind the support I put up, darn it! However, I did coax a couple to smile for the camera.
This is another from my package of "mixed nils". Any ideas on ID?
From one of the Yoinotsuki plants. The ones I brought indoors are doing MUCH better than the ones that stayed outside. Lots of nice big blooms and, yea!, I see seed pods forming!
This is kind of interesting looking; I believe it's the result of a cross of Jamie Lynn and Kniola's Black.
Wow! Very pretty :)
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I love the intense color of the first one. Karen
Thanks, I like it too. It has just a tiny bit of a white margin, too. Wish I knew what to call it.
I LOVE that blue one! The foliage is just as beautiful as the bloom :) What does the foliage on the pink one look like? And I love the detail on that last one. Lots to look at :) I don't know enough about naming them to help you with that, but I do know they are really beautiful.
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Are the leaves variegated or solid?
The pink (more like magenta) one has solid leaves.
The foliage on all the MGs I kept indoors is really lush and beautiful; almost worth growing just for the foliage. Oddly enough, the ones I grew in the same location last year didn't look anywhere this nice. I don't know what the difference is.
This is one of the reasons I enjoy the Yoinotsuki. Honest, it was blue this morning. :-)
It looks like it is a ipomoea nil small flower long vine variety. It reminds me of Cornell but the margin is wide on the Cornell. Anybody got any other ideas? Karen
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/55982/
Yes, the color looks very similar; however, the picture I posted is (so far) representative of the amount of white edge on all the blooms. They all have just a little bit. BTW, these seeds came from Japan, if that makes a difference.
It might have come in a Special Mix packet from Japan. I had some of those that were blue and had a little white like yours. They had some cool colors in the dark pink with and without the margin. That maybe is a good guess I think. :)
Karen
Woofie - Beautiful vines! I like your 'Yoi no Tsuki': http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/133768/ You should add a photo or two of yours also showing the beautiful variegated leaves. Only 2 photos posted so far in PlantFiles. :-)
I haven't a clue what the pretty pink one is. Perhaps Karen is right. It does look similiar to Cornell.
And I would have to agree that you I. purpurea is a lovely cross!
Nice flowers and vines you now have blooming! I am enjoying your photos! :-)
Becky, thanks for setting me straight on the name. The seed package I got had the name all run together. :-)
Maybe the pink one doesn't have a name. Maybe it's just a mutt, like my little I. purpurea cross. I'm going to try to make more of those, BTW. I ran out this morning with my paint brush and hand pollinated and marked several blooms. I'm curious to see if that cross will come true from seed.
That's a good idea, to post a pic of the foliage in the PF. I think I had a picture that showed just the foliage, before the Yoi no Tsuki bloomed. Do you think I should post a picture that shows the color later in the day? Or is that just a peculiarity of the specific environment I have it in?
You could do both a foliage picture as well as a photo of the late day bloom after it has changed color. Be sure to put a note about it in comments with the photo, stating that it is a color-change wilting bloom.
