Cibarius' MG Patch

The chiggers surprised me too! Now that I know about them I will protect myself with a product called Permanone. You can get it at the Sporting Goods dept. of Walmart. It is sprayed on clothes, not on your skin. It does a very good job of keeping chiggers off.

My tiller is an old Troybilt Econohorse, which is smaller than the famous Horse model. It has been a good machine. I've taken care of it and it has performed well for 25 years. I got it on sale. The retailer had reduced the price because it had a Tecumseh engine and everyone wanted a Briggs & Stratton instead. My Tecumseh has been very reliable. Too bad they are long out of business. So is (the real) Troybilt, although you can still get the name.

Cibarius, I hate that chiggers invaded your morning glory row-it looks so clean and the vines also look healthy. Keep up the good work on the photos they are great!

Hey morning glory lovers! When I went to my daddy's house early this morning I noticed he has wild morning glories; they are purple, light blue and pink-I'm charging my batteries for my digital camera so I can take pictures in the morning while they are still open. I will post them in the future soon.

I look forward to seeing your photos! :-)

me too! As for chiggars, I hate those things.

These wild purple morning glories are growing on my daddys fence (my picture do not do them justice) I got over there just in time this morning to catch some still open.

Tiny orange morning glories-ain't they cute! These have been coming up every year since we moved to our house and I have them coming up is several different places.

Boopsie - Beautiful bloom photos! The first one that you say is actually purple in color is an I. purpurea. Possibly Grandpa Ott's: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/51597/

The second vine looks like possibly Ipomoea coccinea: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/51759/

Nice photos of them, too!

I agree, really nice photos!

Lovely blooms Boopsie.

Thanks! I hope Cibarius don't mind me posting pictures on his thread 'cause I am still new at this. If I need to delete them I will do so if there is a way to do it, I don't want to be doing something wrong and I would die if I hurt anybodys feelings. All you older members may need to guide me in alot of things 'cause I am really enjoying Dave's Garden and meeting new people.

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Boopsie, Cibarius probably doesn't mind but always feel free to post your pics
on the #rd threads we start. They are for everyone to post on. :-)

What are chiggers? are they like ticks/fleas?

cbarius, your garden looks like a mini-japanese plantation, very nicely kept.

Boopsie, those orange little flowers really stand out. I forgot how lovely they look. Good photos by the way.

Good comments from everyone. I appreciate them. Here is a question-
I have been growing Kikyozaki Lace as posted above. And now it has produced some very different blossoms. You can see them together in the photo. The new one on the right is what I originally thought it should produce. I was surprised at the round flower with white spokes that appeared first. Are these two forms coming from the same cultivar?

Doug - Some really nice blooms you've got there! Your vines look great for this time of year!

I believe you have two different vines growing next to each other. I am looking at the leaves. The Double Kikyo Lace leaves are contracted: http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Asagao/Yoneda_DB/E/Introduction/htmls/33.html

and the other bloom on the left looks like some kind of diluted Youjiro cross with yellow leaf (kiba) shaped & colored leaves: http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Asagao/Yoneda_DB/E/Introduction/htmls/32.html Or possibly a small blooming Fuji no Muraski by the color of the throat: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/139460/

At least that is MY guess from examining your beautiful photo!

Beautiful blooms Cibarius, I've got alot of learning to do so I can remember all those fancy names!

Yes, you do have 2 different vines growing. They must have gotten mix up in the batch because I had the same thing. I grew what thought to be Kikyo and one vine was a kikyo and the other one is a cross of some kind. I LOVE the cross though, it is beautiful! I think someone suggested it might be a Maisugata cross. The flower is about 3 to 3.5 inches across, so it's a good size flower. You can tell the difference between the leaves of the Kikyo and the leaves of the Maisugata cross. My Kikyo has a dark green solid leaves and the leaves are smaller and thicker than the Maisugata cross. I also notice that the Kilyo doesn't tends to climb very high. The Kikyo vine can be about 3-4 inches and it would produce flowers.

Hope that helps.

My Flying Saucers have finally appeared! I set the plant out about the first of June, and it took until late September for blossoms to open. The plant had become quite large. I had to prune it twice to keep it in bounds. I wonder if this is normal for I. tricolor? I probably will not grow this one again, but the flowers are quite attractive. Some are very pale, almost completely white and the others are as you see here.
Doug

Well, once again you have another beautiful bloom from your garden! I have alot to learn about morning glories and I will probably half to carry around a list with the picture of the bloom and its fancy name beside it. I am still anxious to see more of your photos of your morning glories.

Demetria

Doug - That one is a beaut! I like Flying Saucers and am growing mine in a small cup and it is blooming profusely! Just goes to show that the Japanese knew what they were doing when they created bonsai plants! LOL!

Here is mine in the late afternoon as the color was changing. Looks like fourcolors to me, instead of tricolors. I see several shades of blue, purple, pink, and yellow in these blooms! ;-)

That is awesome, Doug and Becky.. I love the flying saucers.

Flying Saucers can hold it's own against any other mg, I love how it's
so variable.

You know what ... I went out this morning to feed the birds and there was another beautiful bloom flush on my vine! I kid you not, this baby is growing in an 8 ounce styrofoam cup. Maybe stress produces lots of blooms! It blows me away to see that. And there are more buds that will probably bloom tomorrow. Amazing species that these tricolors are!! Even the rust hasn't stopped my vines from producing flowers. My cattle panel arbor has quite a few blooms of Heavenly Blue on it today as well. Pearly Gates is the only one that hasn't done much of anything and I think the rust got all the leaves on those. I am not tearing them down until the plants are dead all over. I have several of my I. nils that have been destroyed by rust, but new leaves are sprouting at the bottom of vines and growing, so I'm just going to let them go and see what happens. Maybe I'll get some more flowers and possibly seeds. You just never know ...

Doug - What other MGs are blooming right now for you?

All of the tall plants are still blooming. The short ones like Keiryu and JishiXTenten have stopped. Here are the first two plants in the row: Blue & Blue Shibori and Purple Flaked Hige. Blue & Blue wanted to be a compact plant. It eventually climbed its support but not like the tall plants.

Great picture along with all them fancy names (which I will never learn). You have really put alot of hard work in your morning glory row. I'm anxious to hear how many seeds you harvest from all of them.
Keep up the great work!!

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