My Morning Glory Adventures May thru June

south back house garden and south east fence corner.. I almost have the view of the neighbors yard blocked, I'd say another month..

planter on patio

more containers on south end of patio

most of this stuff was down stairs.. except the seedlings from seeds and prenniels.. all the brugs and hibs and tropical mgs were downstairs.

southwest conrer barrell on patio

datura tatula

purple evening glory in the upper left pot, black purse planter and others on the south end corner of the patio

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still on the south end, this planter is a little more west of the corner barrell

this is on the northwest end of the patio, these are mostly prenniels and some seed plantings

the i. batata in this planter and that chichi was all inside , the bacopa is new in this container, but there is also mgs in there, moon vine and evening glory

I grew this from seed last year, brought it inside for winter, all the leaves fell off, bt it came back inside I can't wait for this thing to get big, it goes into a bigger container this weekend.

here is the other side of the north patio garden, you can see obscura in the new spot as well as some other mgs growing.

I posted this one in another thread I think, but keeping here will let me delete the one on my hard drive..

The rain has been heavy and hard, yet the blooms on the I. purpureas keep coming, always the first to bloom for me, in the majical world of the beautiful morning glory..
I am pretty excited that my wild morning glory hedge bindweed is happy here on the patio for now, I will transplant it this fall to the north fence corner, by the gate.

Things are growing by leaps and bounds here, colour popping out from no where.. Let the vines commence!

this basket hanging by my back door holds some seeds from the group swap, the baskets all along the back door eaves are vining nicely now..

This barrell has sunflowers and morning glorys at the base, as well as a ruby glow passion vine, an oxalis, and some liatris and tall showy primrose for the vines to climb. a few long poles and some plastic heavy mesh netting completes the setting for the barrell on the north west corner of the patio..

This pot held rebecca last year on the south fence by the Brugs, and there are some volunteers now growing from that same tub..that is a broken tree limb from the neighbors horrendous much needed trimming trees, but the good way to look at all the fallen branches into my yard is 1. lunch for the compost pile out back in the alley 2. some thing natural for my vines to climb on .3. supports for the tall plants that need it, 4. excersize for me to walk around collect them break them up and place them where they need to be placed..

this is my i. plantesis caudex plant I kept inside in the basement nursery, it slept for awhile thru winter, started waking up around February, and is going to be all over the north west fence and the tomatoe cage before the end of summer..I can't wait!

this is a little seedling of convovulus capensis..it is off the patio by the little water pond in full sun..

this is a little blurry sorry.. this hanging pot is holding a very tall growing showy evening primrose and some native butterfly milkweed, and has native morning glorys and some hige planted in it from the mg swap to climb over the tall plants and the fence it is next to.

This is the north fence west end as of this evening, I pulled probably 35 rogue plants out of it to give breathing room for other things in there, why do I get so carried away with seeds every year? Behind everything there are vines from the mg swap and we will be seeing no fence in just a few months..now about the roots and plants, they are free for the asking, but will need shipping money. LOL..
I bet I took out 20 plants of Moon Raker beards tounge alone.. plus some monardas, cleomes, primrose and perilla.. you can tell what grew there last year. I have been pulling out little messina creepers and roman candy and scarlet o hara that has come up voluntarily as well.. have to see some new faces this year..

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Debra - in here - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=7874720 - those hollyhocks make nice ghost flowers for night, don't they? Congratulations on your I. plantesis caudex plant; after wintering over a Kansas winter, its abundant growth must be especially gratifying.

Imho, your garden is very lovely and interesting.

Karen

Looks like you are off to a great start this year with a really nice assortment of blooming plants! How are your brugs doing? I just received cuttings from another person here in FL and they have all rooted. :-)

Debra, Looking forward to all the lovely bloom pics you
will be sharing with us.

Thanks everyone, the plantesis likes the basement garden in winter, as did all the other annuals that usually die out there in the cold.. I recieved a pakage of i. purps mix in the mg swap, and it produced this awsome vine, red stemmed, with very dark leaves and the darkest purle I have ever seen, it is so pretty..
this picture makes it look lighter and bluer than it really is. It is almost black.

he other leaves next to it have had the tag i. obscura since the get go, so I am anxious to see what it is when it blooms..

Debra, Very pretty. Probably Kniola's Black

Could be, I just love the darkness and redness of the vine stem. Monardas are popping open everywhere and so tall the vines are climbing them..

Dames rockets are setting seeds so I cut them off to start over again, they smell so good..

These are from Ronnie, and I love them esecially when they are getting ready to open.. her lav/purple I. Purps are awsome, and so are her sunflowers.

June 14th.. trying to get this caught up.. may have to give up that idea. It will be Christmas soon the way I am going here..
follow me while we wait for cool weather or at least some rain...http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1122031/

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