Dany's MGs 2010 part 6

A leaf of ipomoea purpurea not really like all the others.

A new crossing but I can not imagine the parents.Grand 'pa... X ....... ?

Here with Kniola's Black, Grand'pa and Star of Yelta.

Here there are some genes to be used.

Double flower with good size but has no pistil or pollen.

This year has been a bad year for fans of Ip. nil. We have lost here at least one month of summer.
I was with more beautiful cultivars in 2009.I hope they are not lost forever and are in my small envelopes.Like this one.

Nice blooms as always. Yes! I'd have to agree, this was not the stellar year for MGs like in past years! Hopefully next year will be a better year! BUT ... I still saw some dynamite blooms from everyone! So even though it was a shorter growing season, the vines and blooms ROCKED the MG World!!

Love that last one you posted above. Neat colors and patterns on it!

Dany,

I love your double, and especially the flower in the last photo. Hope you have some extra seeds for next year.

Dany what zone are you in? The reason I ask is that here in zone 7/8, I was able to use an outdoor tent type enclosure for my mgs one year and they did ok (not great) all way up until October and I was able to get lots of seeds. Maybe you can do something like that set up right where they are growing, I even lit a couple of large candles in the middle of the tent to keep the heat up a little during the cold nights (put the candles inside metal cans so you don't start a fire). It may give you some time to make crosses and get some seeds. The winds came and down the street went my tent..

I'm in zone 6 or 7.
http://www.uk.gardenweb.com/forums/zones/hze.html
These zones are calculated for the whole year, the annual plants have nothing to do with the fact that winters can be very cold.
Better should be zones for the summer only.
In England they are zone 8 and MG nil does not grow well.To grow Nils you need hot summers and this is what we have - Hum! normally.
So we are in summer zone 8 - 8.5.

Here is Fujishibori with something like picotee.

Create fujishibori with a real wide white margin that would be dynamite!

A large white margin is still his beautiful effect.

An other pic.

With some cultivars the first flowers have sometimes an original form, it seems that the last too!

Dark Blue Silk.

a NOID.

In Japan there would be an invasion of caterpillars of Helicoverpa armigera. Soon perhaps transgenic Morning Glory will come on the market?

No only picture of Morning glory.

Morning Dany,
I love all your pictures, hopefully you can teach me alittle bit about morning glories in the future! I never knew all these colors existed, here in TN we only have solid colors and they are everywhere. The above picture just made my day as my favorite color is red, it reminds me of a 4 o'clock with all its stripes. It's GROEGEOUS!! You take such fastastic pictures-too bad I live so far away or I'd come and spend the whole day with you sometime to follow you around like a puppy dog.
Keep posting those beautiful blooms!
Demetria

Thanks Demetria
I find something for you:
http://www.touchwoodplants.co.uk/aquilegiaseed.htm
You recognize that plant?

No Dany I have not seen this plant, very unusual and eye catching! I checked out the website-that lady is busy, busy, busy and I plan on looking at it several times. Thanks so much!

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Dany,

I just love this one http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=8119844

Thanks Elsa
For these following pictures could be given the title: these genes that escape me.
First the flower kind Fuji No Monet Mauve with a good size.

An other picture of this flower.

And this flower with a wide white margin.
Rainy day - and flower not very clean.

This one is a cultivar that probably has Emma's Cocoa Chocolate as ancestor but that is 100% picotee.
I do not know if the dark mauve is different.

Sometimes there appears a flower with white margin wider.

Hum ! with this pic, I realize that my camera is not really waterproof.

Dany - Those wide margins are rather striking! I like your deep purple colors, too! Nice ones!

I like those with the wide brim also and the color. The Fuji no Monet has retained the nice circle in the center and a few characteristics though. I have not been able to get one like the original since the first time I grew it. Seems like the next generations bring out all the other genes it took to create it.

Beautiful blooms Dany. I love the wide margined blooms too, striking.
A, I hope the no Monet sds I send to you will come true. I didn't
realize it might revert quite often.

Yes, but about the size of Fuji no Monet?I thing it's a really tiny bloomer.

I transplanted the purpurea variegated foliage because it grew in the shade of large plants.
It is a young plant that will live and give me some seeds - fingers crossed!

Maybe it does give me flower like this.
Hum !.... it may be asking too much !

Retro tube with large flower.

The square tricolor of the day.

Ipomoea Nil Africa.Tiny !

Without it nothing would exist in the wonderful world of Japanese Morning Glory.
Hi Granny !

Dany, my no Monet had a 4 inch flower, not tiny at all.

Dany, regarding http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=8123323 , is this the ancestor of the spectacular Ipomoea nil blooms that this forum loves to showcase? Or, close to it, I guess?

And/or is this I. nil 'Africa' the one that Dr. Yoneda hybridized with I. purpurea to create I. youjiro?

Contemplating how we got from I. nil 'Africa' to the Edo Japanese mutants to today's gorgeous beauties raises so many awesome questions - not to mention possibilities for future breeding.

Thank you for posting this, and also for posting about tricolor transposons on Musarojo's I. tricolor thread here - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=8109351 - which adds more to the puzzle of how the nils have evolved.

karen

Dany - Thanks for posting that photo of Ipomoea Nil Africa. I always wondered what it looked like. I do believe that is the vine that was crossed with other species (particularly I. nils) to enable MGs to create some amazing blooms!

Karen
It's always very difficult to know exactly the identity of a plant.But for me it is the wild Ipomoea Ni found in Guinea, probably one that was sold by the Chinese as the Japanese as medicinal plant around the year 800.
I found seeds on this site.
http://www.barbadine.com/pages/tropical_seeds.htm
The owner of this site is often on DG, we could ask him about an article over Ip.Nil Africa.

I hope to make interspecific crosses between Ip. Nil Africa and Ip.purpurea.
But it is just beginning to bloom now, so ....

I knew it was slow to develop, I started very early.This proves may be, it's because of that gene that Africa Nil and later Nil japonica are plants of short day.
Rem: I do not understand the meaning in the 'genetic evolution' of a short-day plants in tropical environments.
What is the strategy ?

Karen you love stories of transposons while listening this one:
Once upon a time ....
It was discovered in North Carolina on a plant of wild Ipomoea purpurea with a double flower mutation caused by a transposon.

The more we get information more we ask questions.
1 - wild population of Ip. Purpurea in North Carolina ?????
2 - this transposon is it the origin of feather purpurea??

http://www.opack.jp/fair/a/a_6.html you need a translation !

My Mina lobata "Spanish Flag" first flower.I'm sure they need a hot summer , not for this year !