Thanks Deb and Becky. Beck, that is MG Fuji no Beni from sds
you kindly shared with me. I loved it too and hope to grow another one this summer. I hope I can clear some fence area for another
10-15 glories. My Count Drac planted in the ground by Pink Tie Dye and Wedding Bells last summer, did not thrive in the ground but Tie Dye and Wedding Bells didn't mind at all.
Jordin Rose, loved this one, thanks Emma.
Wedding Bells on the fence last summer. Hoping for lots of seeds
of this one this year.
Everyone has such beautiful MG's. I'm going to start the seeds you
sent me Patootie. Maybe I can get blooms earlier. Thanks again.
Linda
Linda, Hope you get lots of beautiful blooms. Please share pics when
they bloom.
I sure will. Right now I have them soaking in water. Tomorrow I will
put seeds in soil, and place them in sunroom.
Jackie - WOW! Some great shots of your lovely blooms! Love all those pinkies! Is Wedding Bells a pink bloom or more lavender? Also, is WB an I. tricolor or an I. nil?
I got a kick out of this photo today at the bird feeder. The cardinal was waiting patiently for the squirrel to get his fill and leave...
Really nice blooms Jackie! I have 3 Wedding bells growing, hope they are lavender color.
Cute picture Becky!
Thanks Becky and Helena. I would say WB is a Lavender.
One of the Tri-colors.
I'm just sending pics in case everyone else is as desperate as I am just to see some blooms.
Gave this one to a friend, now I don't know it's id.
Love the pic Becky, I feed the wild birds everyday too.
Neat picture, they are like mine, only I alo have a poppa momma and son blue jay family that competes for the food. The momma and papa and baby squirrel are still the only three squirrels I have that hang out in my back yard. I have watched the baby since last spring and he is so cute..
Jackie, I love lookig at blooms right now.. keep them coming..
here is one from last year, can't remember if I posted it..
Debra, Lovely small blue, Hederacea?
Fuji no Sora, one of my favorites
Yes that is it, Jackie, I am so glad you know your mgs.. ;)
I love the white spokes on that blue Fuji no Sora
I. lindeheimer last fall ( which is still vining like crazy)
Thanks Debra, Some Glories I know, some I don't. :-)
Oh my gosh, the Lindeheimer is a beauty
Here is a shot of a few of my vines, I. Lind is there..
impressive. If only I can keep mine alive...
You're off to a good start Debra. I meant to have 30 or more started by now. Maybe this week
Jackie - I love your Fuji no Sora, too! The ones I grew several years ago were smaller blooms. I have heard that the Fuji Ao cultivar has bigger blooms. I wonder if that is true? Your Sora crossed seed has sprouted in my cup. I have 10 sprouts currently that are all doing well. When they get just a little bigger, they will go outside into a 5 gallon container. I can't wait for blooms! No blooms whatsoever in my yard except some bushes. Still pretty brown here, but some green is starting to show up. Yay!
Debra - I agree with Jackie ... your I. lindeheimer has a lovely bloom! Is it a seasonal bloomer? How big are those blooms? 3-4 inches? Or bigger? That's neat that you have been watching your young baby squirrel grow-up. I have so many squirrels that I have lost track of which is which. LOL! One comes right up to me every day now and when I am late getting out there to feed them, she climbs on my screen porch screen and stares at me through the window or glass french doors. LOL! They are on a time clock or something! Of course, the time change has them confused now. I come out much earlier than I did before. :-)
Becky I hear ya, my critters outside were wondering what was up... this am I didn't get to go out and feed them, so when I went out tonight, Poppa Squirrell was right there, he almost takes a peanut from me, ALMOST. Duke comes up behind me and scares him away. I have three familys that reside in my back yard, they never leave.. the squirrell family, the blue jay family and the cardinal family.. I always get other birds and rabbits and things, but I feed them behind my back fence to keep them in the alley....I don't want the neighborhood cats to get them at the feeders here. I have caught those three orange cats climbing the tree back there to get to the birds at the feeders..
I. lindheimer blooms were about three inches .. it bloomed for about amonth.. then it slowed down. now it is going everywhere with new growth, it has a caudex base. I wish I had not lost my Albevenia.. I have planted some more seeds tho..
Becky, lost my post from about 1:30 or 2 this afternoon.
I am so eager to see what type bloom you get on the no
Sora cross. My bloom on the no Sora was about a 3 to 3 and 1/2 inch bloom.
Debra - Your I. lindheimer sounds like it might be a seasonal bloomer? Good luck with your Albevenia seeds!
Jackie - The seedling sprout is smaller than the typical I. nils. So you mentioning that it had a smaller bloom makes me very curious to see the growth from your seed. :-) I shall be watching yours closely! :-)
Becky, all mine are open pollinated so will be very interesting to
see what you get.
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Jackie - Can't wait to see the blooms from your seed. And I always love surprises. It is definitely a smaller vine - smaller leaves, shorter, etc. Very interesting!
Well, now I'm a little worried Becky, lol
I will start one or two of my sds
from the no Sora cross to see what I get.
Oh gosh! I love that bloom and vine..Beautiful, Jackie! I hope I get one just like it! If not, don't worry. I have more seeds from you! Maybe the one I am growing is a mutant? It is smaller in size. But I just fertilized all my seedlings, so maybe it will go from small to big before long. LOL!
LOL Becky. I hope it does grow larger and turns out to be the
real deal. If not, then the vine you have should be interesting. Glad
I sent you extra sds so you can try again.
you guys are gonna think I am crazy, for : being awake and shivering, but, after work I came home and headed down to the Garden and made a bunch of cuttings up of stuff, cut back hot lips salvia and the stephonits jasmine that was curling around the macho fern, and I found SPIDERMITES! aghh! I had some gardensafe 3 in 1 so sprayed everything under and on top and all the soil.. all my ladybugs are gone. I found a lightening bug flashing around when I turned off the lites..
I found a red and black little flying bug, and some of the fungus gnats are almost the size of a small fly, and one was inside a morning glory. I am getting seeds on the lantanas. I found three grocery sacks of morning glory seeds under the growing table.. good grief! okay DD is telling me I have to work tommorrow so I better go to bed, so I can dig up the snow off the car before I leave. in the am. I planted some of these and they are up...
It is almost impossible to avoid bugs indoors when growing plants inside. I even use sterile seed starting formula and still have those gnats! Ugh!
Debra - You are probably more at risk for bugs because your pots/plants were brought in from outdoors. Bugs hide, lay eggs, and some probably even hibernate in the soil. So when they wake up, grow, or become mobile you can have a bit of a problem. But hopefully spraying and getting them back outside when Spring arrives will take care of the problem. I don't think there is any way around it! Grrrr ... :-/
What is that pink firecracker looking bloom, by the way?
That pretty little firecracker bloom looks like
Schrankia, has more than one name. Menacing thorns too.
Its a beauty though, in the Legume family.
T and M calls it Nuttallii...Pink Sparkles.
Do Morning Glories attract birds (esp hummers) & butterflies? If so, what do you think is the best
variety? I thought about planting some along my side fence (full sun). The fence is only 4ft. What
do you think?
That nutalli picture is from the country here in Kansas, I went back in the fall to that spot and gathered tons of seeds.. it is called catsclaw sensitive briar nuttallis ( prolly is not spelled right) it was covered with butterflys and bees in July. I had to go back in October to harvest the seeds. I am so glad some came up.
Carol, Becky and Jackie are the MG specialists, I just grow them and watch the action in my back yard.. ;D ...I got alot of sulpher butterflys on the pink mgs.. I tend to mix in hummer plants among my mgs when I grow them.. I use monardas, lobelia, salvias, lantanas and zinnias. My Hummers go crazy for the mg companion plants.
this was august 2009 looking east , you can see the vines on the north fence.
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LOL! Specialists??? Who??? LOL! Not hardly ...
Hi Carol - I have seen hummers sipping from my MG blooms, so it is a nectar source for them. I have also seen butterflies and bees enjoying the bloom nectar. I just don't know where it rates on the hummer taste test scale. Right now ... the one thing that is delighting my hummers is my hummingbird feeders! I see my two all day long at them every half hour or so! But they do enjoy flower nectar and insects, too. Right now there isn't much blooming in my yard after the freezing temps pretty much killed everything. So the feeder is probably a life-saver for them. BTW - Welcome to the MG Forum! :-)
IMHO I think Ipomoea hederifolia is the best mg for hummers. I've been growing it for ages cause they stay open all day to evening.
Carol, I always collect loads of seeds if you're interested d-mail me and I'll send you some seeds. This is a picture of mine ipomoea hederecea "pumpkin". They do reseed so should be on a fense or away from plants you don't want them climbing on.
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I do know that the Hummers seem to really like the smaller blooming MG vines. Though I used to watch one of my hummers going up and down each vine sipping from the blooms on even the I. nils. And the large bumble bees are all over the I. nils first thing in the morning. Which is probably what is pollinating them when I don't beat them out there first! LOL!
Helena - Beautiful photo of your "pumpkin". I have grown the two different blue hederecea and they must have dropped seeds that I didn't find because I had quite a few volunteers the following year and even later in the same year. They tend to be like the I. purpureas here as they can become a bit invasive if you don't keep an eye on any seedling sprouts in places you don't want them! I just pull them up and that takes care of that! LOL!
I get alot of ants on my MGs.
Me too.. Lots of pollinaters on them. Love that pumpkin hederacera it is cute.
I love the catsclaw sensitive briar Debra. Gorgeous pink blooms
and hardy too. Doesn't get any better than that.
Helena, pretty little Pumpkin bloom, great color.
Florida has those thorney mimosa vines too. Also there is a native ground cover that looks similar but creeps rather than climbs.
John, Yes I see T and M calls it Mimosa nuttallii. When I bought my
pkt from Mr Hudson, it was called Schrankia or something similiar.
Earlier I said it was in the Leguminosa family. Now
listed as a member of the Fabaecea, I don't know if it was ever a Legume family member. Maybe I just made that up, lol
I like the ground cover version too. Is it also thorny?
Mimosa strigillosa
no thorns.
We have a couple different ones here in Kansas, one kinda vines on the ground, one kinda spraws upright, I love them both.
