Anyone grown Morning Glories on Sunflowers?

I saw this idea on the internet and think it's a wonderful combination.

What a pretty photo! Neat idea!

I've seen where they make a sunflower house with MGs and sunflowers. The idea is to train the vines over the top to make a roof and the sunflowers are planted as walls.

It's a pretty combo with the blue and yellow :)

The morning glories grow so fast and rampant here in GA, that the Sunflower would not last long, lol..The Mg's devour everyhting in their path..
Larkie

One of the prettiest scenes I've witnessed was a corn field that was brown and every stalk was covered in wild MG's. Just beautiful!

I planted morning glories with my sunflowers last year. The morning glories grow faster than the sunflowers even though I planted mammoth russians. This year, I will do it again but I may wait a couple of weeks after I plant the sunflowers to plant the mg's. Mammoth Russian sunflowers would make great playhouses because they get really tall and have extremely strong stalks. I used "flying saucers" morning glories which grew really long vines. They would definitely be a good choice to grow up and over for a roof.

The thing I liked best about the combination was that the morning glories looked pretty long after the sunflowers expired. It was just like a big wall of morning glories up until frost.

Angela

Angela,

Do you have any pictures ............ I'll bet that was a site to behold.

I just started sunflower seeds to make a flower house for my two grndkids. I also have morning glory seeds but I will have to check to make sure that they are the long vines. I got the very tall sunflower seeds . . over 7' but now I wonder if they will stand up by themselves. I think I had better go this week and see if I can find some of the Mammoth Russions since busybee said they were very strong and worked well for this project. I also appreciate the insight about waiting a while before planting the MG seeds.

What would I do without all of you at DG's??????????

I'll check to see if I can find any pictures from last summer showing the whole thing. My camera wasn't working well for a while and I got sporadic photos. I would definitely recommend that combination though. The "flying saucers" produce a really long vine and nonstop flowering. The only drawback is that they are late bloomers. I think a lot of the large mg's are that way... they don't bloom until late July or early August but then... WOW! Unfortunately they have larger seeds that take a long time to dry on the vine so I don't have extra seeds to share. The blooms were well worth the wait... about 4-5 inches across and ranging from white to blue with many combinations of white streaked with blue. I also grew scarlet runner beans with this combo which had a nice contrast with the red flowers. I will probably choose to add a red mg this year.

The good news is that I have lots of the mammoth russian sunflower seeds that I would be happy to send to anyone for SASBE. Mine grew 8-10 feet tall and had stalks that were at least an inch in diameter. Some of them were closer to 2 inches in diameter. They were really sturdy and I didn't stake them.

I am including a picture of a small portion of the morning glory/sunflower wall.

Angela

Roomy tried to grow some flowers himself since I have the rest of his yd full. It was totally accidental but had sunflowers with MGs growing up them.
We had a storm w/strong winds & most of the SFs went horizonal. They have a very shallow root base. I went out & stood them back up, stood on the roots to mash them back in the ground. That worked well enough. By the the time the MGs were growing up the SFs, they were pulling them over.
I came home fr work & he had gone out & bought 2 (diff colors) 5' trellis that he had stuck in the bed. He is such a trip when he tries to grow flowers! He has good ideas but never thinks ahead for what will happen when things start to grow. :~)

Has anyone tried to grow pole beans on mammoth sunflowers? I've never seen it done but I found one website that says sunflowers are a 'companion' to pole beans and another that says sunflowers are an ''antagonist' to them, anyone know which is correct?

Thought I'd try a few pole beans in my sunflowers this year to see how they do, maybe save a few poles?

I can't imagine why they would have an antagonistic effect. I have only tried morning glories and scarlet runner beans and had success with both. It is definitely worth a try.
Angela

I think that first picture looks really great. I might have to try it because of a shortage of trellises.

I saw that pic on the web last fall Brugie, I dont recall the website it belongs to. I have thought about doing the same thing!

I left a few brugs in the garden to freeze that would have been tossed anyway, and I'm hoping they will also work as trellises.

I grow the mammoth and assorted morning glories together every year. I particularly like the look of the Grandpa ott's growing up the perennial maximillan sunflower plants.

I believe that photo is from Mountain Meadow Seeds, a wonderful couple!!! She has some lovely things there, I have purchased from her in the past as well as traded some of my things for hers.

I'm not sure where I got the picture, it was just one of those things that I saw on the internet that I loved so I kept it in my "ideas" folder.

I'll check out Mountain Meadow Seeds.

Now who woulda thunk! Now I know what I'm going to do with the MG seeds that Studley sent me, and the Sunflower seeds that Shoe sent me! What a clever and pretty idea!

I'm with Windy...grandpa otts(aka star of yelta) looks best!
-Taylor