Morning Glory 'Tie Dye' (Ipomoea nil)

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I hope you saved seeds from this one. Your Grandpa Ott seeds from last year produced gorgeous blooms for me, and I'm hoping you'll send me 5 or 6 from this gorgeous variety. Great photo, PV! ;-)

Judith

The best pic! I justlove its clarity! And I love this MG!

What an eyecatcher! Wonderful photo!

Wow! Thanks everyone! This is my favorite shot this year - it's especially gratifying to have others like it too. I had to half-dangle off the balcony to take it - well, OK, just my one arm and my head - and I'm scared of heights. Go figure!

This is one gorgeous flower. I planted the pink tie-dye this year, but it did not do well for me at all. Somehow, I don't think the pink could possibly have the punch of the blue.

These bloomed late this year, so I'm still waiting (hoping) to get seeds. Lots of pods, but none ready yet.

Thanks again for the nice comments...

PV

(the pic below is another flower on the same plant)

I'm SO glad you posted this pic. It is SO beautiful. I'm a beginning gardener. I would love seeds if you have any. Perhaps I would have something to trade soon. Would you let me know if you have seeds?

A great picture of a stunning flower. Your picture sent me to my books, where I found out Ipomoea nil is a summer annual, so hope you get some seed! This species "includes rare large-flowered Imperial Japanese morning glories and a few kinds of common morning glory, including rosy red 'Scarlett O'Hara.' Early Call strain comes in a number of colors." (From Southern Living Gardenn Book)

A quick web search found a 'Tie Dye' cultivar for "Ipomoea x imperialis" with "gigantic flowers 6 inches across, deep purple and lavender, with lobed leaves splashed in silvery white" but your leaves don't appear to be variegated. I found several references to 'Tie Dye' leaves being variegated, but the one place I actually found seeds for sale--www.hortusb.com--for $2.99, doesn't mention variegated leaves, just "6 inch, indigo streaked, lavender flowers on seven foot vines." One university site says that it will self sow, but the hard seeds take two to three years to germinate.

Thanks for posting this beautiful picture, and I learned something new about morning glories, because I have been growing them for many, many years and never knew there were "rare, large flowered Imperial Japanese" types. I love gardening as I learn something new every day.

Thanks, suncatchceracres! Your research is correct - this variety of MG does have the lobed, variegated leaves. If you look closely in the first picture, you'll see one, lone variegated leaf at the bottom. The larger leaves in the pic belong to "Grandpa Ott's" - grew both types on the same trellis.

These tie-dyes are from 2nd generation seeds; I bought the original seeds from Park's Seed last year. Like most MGs, they form a LOT of seed pods. The tie-dye seeds just seem to take a longer time to "ripen". Last year, they bloomed earlier, and by this time, I had a ton of seeds; this year, they didn't bloom until August, and I'm just watching the pods. But I'm sure I'll be able to get some seeds....

PV

They sure are beautiful, are they like most MG's that cover the vine with tons of blooms all summer or do they just give a few>

justjill3 - I will let you know when/if I get seeds!

windsurfer - I grow them in a pot on an 11th floor terrace and get good bloom coverage. Not as many as I've seen in pics of say, Heavenly Blue MGs, but enough. Maybe they would do better in the ground, or even on the ground, and situated where they get more sun. But even in my "special" environment, they do darn good!

PV

That's a really pretty picture of the morning glory. I've seen other pictures of 'Tye Dye', but none as lovely as this one. Thanks for posting it.

Thanks for the info and I would also have to plant them in a container, small garden.