Hige Row

I have started a row of hige morning glories this year. They were slow to begin blooming, but the first ones have started now. Here is a typical picture. The leaves were still wet with dew when I took this.

Doug - Very nice hige bloom! Looks like Gypsy Bride! I look forward to seeing the blooms on the other hige vines, too! They were a mixed bag, so I hope you get other different cultivars and colors! :-)

Here is another bloom from a different vine. I have five different, unknown, vines. They have not all bloomed yet, and one of the five is not as tall as the others. This one is full height and it was the first to bloom. I have suspected that I see pink shades in it, but they are difficult to photograph.

Looks like a possible cross, Doug. Beautiful pale pink hige bloom! Very nice! I hope you get one of the flaked higes and also the blue one. I was growing and am still growing a mix of hige vines together, so when I collect the seeds, I have no idea which vine each seed came from. They are intertwined together.

WOW Cibarius those are beautiful blooms especially the second one! I have never seen such a breath-taking bloom like that, it kinda makes me think of speveral pieces of thin sheer fabric that has been tied together on one end and the wind is blowing it in several directions. I know that sounds silly! It is so different!
I am anxious to see more of you beautiful blooms as I've never seen any in the area where I live.
Thanks for letting us see your beautiful blooms!

Thanks for the comments. Here is the one hige that appears to be the most different from the others. It has definite pink/purple tones that are present in every blossom. I like this one.

This one only has faint touches of pink. Boopsie, they all look like folds of thin white silk. I wonder who gave them the name of Gypsy Bride?

Cibarius I have never seen blooms that are so different-they are beautiful!
I have no idea how these blooms got their name, do you?

This is from yet another plant. When I saw these bloom I thought they were possibly all seeds from one pod. Becky, how many types of higes were you growing when you collected these seeds?

The names I don't know about. That was the label on the seed packets I got. Some had no names except mixed hige seeds. Here is a collage of the ones I grew last year and this year. I couldn't find my photos of Gypsy Bride though, Doug. But mine looked very much like your photo. :-)

Beautiful blooms and love that lush green foliage on all of them! They are looking great, Doug!

This message was edited Jul 27, 2011 11:12 PM

Becky,
I didn't get nearly as much variation as your illustration shows. Mine are almost entirely plain white. Here is a picture of one that bloomed today. There is just a hint of purple pink in some of them. I have not used any sprays on these plants. The bees and bugs have had their way with all of them, hummingbirds too. I also had to tolerate Japanese beetles for a while, but they are gone now. I have other hige plants yet to bloom.

Doug - I hope some of your other hige vines give you some different colors. That's funny that you got white because the white hige hardly produced any seeds at all. It wasn't mixed in with the rest of the higes in the big container that are shown in my collage photo. It was by itself in another pot. You must've gotten the few white hige seeds that I did managed to get from that vine! LOL! Hummers and bees love my hige and regular blooming MGs! They go to them first thing in the mornings!