Morning glory adventures.. August 2010 in Kansas

Morning glorys make good tethers for the tall plants.

This is the tall sunflower out back. The vines finally took it down. since this picture I have clipped the pink i purpls off of it to let the white i purp have its way.I stood the sunflower up and supported it. It is Raining this am! YAY!

The Iochroma has been non stop blooms in this location out back.

Rebecca gets lot of pollinators.

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This white I purp came from last years seed droppings. I am glad I let this area go to see what came up.

a better picture of the poor sunflower, you can see a blossom star i. purp there somewhere.

The package read Blossom Star. I like it

This is another reason I like four o clocks. These "fairys" come out at night to play in them. I have about 4 different kinds here, but this one is very large. it looks and sounds like a hummer when it comes to me. It follows me around at night.

Its tounge goes out about 5 inches to get the nector.

Its eyes look like egyptian princess with its linings.

Debra,

Love your photos - especially your 4 o'clock cross. http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=8044639. Please keep me in mind if you have seed to share.

Elsa

Debra it looks great in your garden love all that you have growing and i too love the 4 o'clock cross its beautiful.

Robbie

Well yes the 4 oclock is wonderful but I'm still in shock over the size of that
moth. He's incredible. How many inches across would you say Debra?

He is about the size of a hummingbird. He looks like on in the dusk until you get close up and see his body. Prolly about 5 to 6 inches this one is.
If you grow 4 O Clocks, Datura Moon Flower,Brugmansias and Tall Yellow Evening showy primrose, you will get these moths.
It rained for almost 24 ours. It was nice. All my MG blooms were wet and soggy, excet for one late blooming white I purp.

The Red I. Nil with white frost edges on the north east section of the fence were still open at 10 pm. I still think Roman Candy and SOH met up last year and gave me this colour flower. The form and leaves are still like Roman Candy, but RC is lighter pink. I hope someone else grows that seed I sent out in the MG swap.
This is a new chinese bean hiyacynth for me, the alba. It works well with the beards tounge obedient plant.

thanks, robbie, elsa and Jackie. I appreciate you stopping by.
in the far right side of this picture you can see another leg of that vine. Does anyone recognise this leaf running plant as an Orchroea? I also had an oppurculina, and a Jaegergii, merremia siberica and argea nervosa planted in that corner area.

This tall bushy plant is now holding a twining Gypsy bride Hige, a yellow morning glory small, and the I. Lind arm that has decided to climb. I can't remember its name, but the Hummers and Butterflys and Bees love it. I have four of these green tumbleweed looking things about the gardens.

I have a long clear plastic hanging shoe bag I used last winter to hold my seedling and cutting pots. It worked well in the basement with a light shining down on it. I have several morning glorys just now germinating and I am hoping they will move on in when it gets cold. I have already begun setting up the areas down there, and will be getting some tall shelves to put under the lights. I have one room designated for cuttings, seed growing and High Light plants.
The main area will be full of tropicals with the regular East to West lighting. The bulbs, corms and tubers will say in their pots or go into one, and rest inside a large plastic tub under a light blanket of peat moss and perlite. All hardys will be in their permanent spot and the left overs of my thinnings out endeavors will be shared around my family. They seem to do okay with prenniels.

I feel Fall. It is crazy/ not time. I have been taking cuttings of things and rooting them. My lavender and pink peony shaped blooming Rose Of Sharon sticks I have cut from Danas House are already rooted. The goldflame and other vine cuttings are getting nubs. The wisteria and trumpet vine cuttings are ready to transplant or send away.
I have gathered huge boxes of coneflowers, yarrows, zinnias, marigolds, 4 o'clocks, Liatris,Monardas, Rudbeckias, datura inoxia, sweet peas, English Ivy , Lantanas, and cosmos. I am like a miser, counting money, only here, I count seeds.
and well anything that makes a seed or a seed pod, either gets scattered elsewhere in the gardens, or in the fine net drawstring bags , or the white paper sacks I use . I have been making new tags to replace the old ones, and tagging the new ones. This is a busy time of the year for me. Kaitlyn brug is blooming again, and so is Elizabeth. I keep seeing little glimpses of the statice, night phlox, creeping verbena, trailing dasiys, mounding dahlias, pentas and impatiens.
I didn't realize how many of those I had. I will gather as much seed as I can from them, and then try to bring in at least two plants from each spot. Only the prenniels will stay outside.



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I am planting these seeds.. in small pots to bring into the growing area this fall..

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inside the bean patch in the middle, the vine I started from seed is throwing roots into the soil..

Its' arms are everywhere.. I cut them off, it grows three more..

This weekend I am going to move the jewel weed and the bananas and spurge so that I can see what the heck I planted again. It HAS A TAG.. just can't get to it for all the other stuff growing. I will move the jewel weed and bananas to a large tub each, and keep the mg fence open so I can unwind the vines and tag them. This will be an all day event. Oh Joy. I cut another clump of pink i purp off the north east fence behind the monardas and obedient plant. now maybe they can breathe. The I. jaegeri is up and going strong, hope I see blooms.. The tag of kikyo ice is on the vine that is, and the I. Jag is the weird looking plant. I have three of them.

This is the shot I meant to post..

This lobata and lav moon vine was struggling for light under the four o clocks, so I gave it to the windmill. it is already happier, even tho I cut it away from its long thin arms that were climbing the four o clock trunks.

Blue yojiro from Jackie is taking off.

this verbascoid is growing as well, and I am glad it is in a pot..

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I might not be spelling well as usual, but this is keiryru from Becky..

all of these are already planted somewhere outside, but I have started some more for inside this winter..

not a good shot, I couldn't be late for work, and my camera was not set right.. oh well, blue ray mutant from Joseph is still blooming for me, and setting seed pods too!

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I do not know why I am attracted to weird faraway things, but I am. Then I scratch my head and wonder what the heck was I thinking? Really, you have to be careful or these things could eat your house! LOL
Sunflower out back is up again, I trimmed a few of the leaders off it, but I want the whites to set seeds.

This is setting seeds also.. I will have alot to share..

I almost have all the i purps out of this barrell.. almost. The moonvine alba has given three blooms for me, the rangoon creeper is climbing and so is the CBH.. Just need to see all the jmgs in here that are just starting in the barrell from the mg swap to get going.

Back to the Monster Vine.. I thought setosa and messina creeper were fast growing. This thing is all over the area.. I can't wait to untangle the corner and see what I am missing under neath all of it..

This looks bad, but the good news is there is life in it.. it is a pandy from arkansas that someone( a real sweetheart, too) sent me a tuber of. We are trading a coral vine I have growing out front over the gutter for this tuber. Now I need some seeds from Kansas again, to plant in the fall and tag, and then some seeds from somewhere else, and I will have three strains growing.

Poor little banana.. it can't see!!!

While I was thinning out the plants in the north garden, I found this mother of thousands growing, prolly from seeds I got from bonnie, and then forgot I had them, and threw them down in a seeding frenzy.. Lord Knows how many people got this in the seed grab bag offer last spring .. looks like a space alien plant.

This is what is in the hanging basket to the direct south of the back door, the drooping dying plants are the upper half of the lobata that I moved to the windmill. These cardinal vines are from the mg swap.

the other pot holds some jmgs from the swap and some trailing lavender lantana..

Yikes! I almost tripped on this ... good grief!

So pretty in the tomatoe patch. I love these things. They just keep rambling and blooming.

Bouguet of the day..