Hi everybody! Long time, no see! I see that I'm way behind on what everyone's got growing this year. I'm gonna need a week to catch up on all the photos! I thought I'd share a few photos of some interesting flowers I've had so far. This one is pale purple with a darker purple flaked star.
Another pale purplish one, I think that I got from Emma. It tends to have white flaking in addition to the picotee edge.
Stacey - The Pale Purple with the Flaked Star is Outstanding(!)...
Beautiful!!!
The first one is gorgeous!! I would like to have some like that. ;) Lin
I have never seen any like that until now. Beautiful!
Wow those are gorgeous!!!
Oh Cool! I have the first one! It is so beautiful!
WOW!
Nice!
:}
RH
Beautiful!
Ditto to everything previous .. Morning Glory's certainly have made getting up early a treat!
X
that first one is fabulous. I love it.
This is what the first one typically looks like, rays and striations. I have a blue one that does the same.
Not as well defined as the purple one, but still nice. They aren't as large either. From what I've read, the pattern is actually typical, but I haven't seen it in actual flowers before this year, and never with any I've grown.
Emma's Lavender Streaks. Mine have a deeper red undertone than I recall her's having. I can't be sure, but I don't think these two are on the same vine.
No kidding, no trick photography, no altering the photo--this is a JMG I bought in a packet from Sakata Seeds labled "Fujimasume", and it's nothing like the flower on the front of the packet. Every one of them has come out medium blue with purple eye. Mispackaged, maybe?
Emma's Gray Smoke. I like how this photo shows the true colors of the flower--a pink star overlaid by thin veil of medium blue. This one really does look gray from a few feet away.
A pink blizzard from Willow wasp's chocolate silk mix she sent me a few years back.
More flowers from Ww's mix. I think these were the ones she called Chocolate Silk.
I love that last one. Wish mine were closer to blooming!
Susan
Stacey - WOW!!!...This Purple Flaked Star is one of the nicest JMG's that I've ever seen...in it's typical or atypical form...
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2377203
Cool, isn't it? It comes from the same set of vines as the first flower I posted, so I don't know if the first one was just a fluke, or if there is one vine out of the three or four that makes just that one type. Judging from Dr. Yoneda's website, it appears to be #11 of typical MG patterns. I think the first flower I posted is #7, which means I may have two separate vines growing.
http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Asagao/Yoneda_DB/E/species/flower_pattern.html
I've been looking for this color and pattern for about two years now. I don't know why, but for some reason, this seems to be the basic ideal Japanese pattern to me. I love it's simplicity and the cool color tones. I could grow this one forever and never get tired of it.
I was thinking the color was going to be hard to describe when I took this photo, but now that I've seen what I captured, I'm stunned! I'm glad I caught the sunlight behind it, because I had no idea that the colors were in ribbons. It appears mainly blue, but you can see streaks of pink and sometimes the blue and pink make streaks of purple. Too cool!
The next few come from a no-name mix I got from a trade few years back. I wish I had the info still so I find the person who gave it to me. In the mix: all are picotee streaked pink, dark blue, and dark purple. I really like the blue's color, since it bleeds heavily into the white edge.
Pink flower:
Purple flower:
Dark blue flower. Curiously, none of these seem to have any streaking in the flower like the others. Maybe I just didn't see it that day.
Purple Striated Star #2, a paler flower than the first one. I have no clue if they are from the same vine or not.
Stacey,
They are ALL absolutely stunning.
What a group of winners you have.
Emma
Stacey - This multi-colred one is a frontrunner
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2384571
It's also on Dr.Yonedas site somewhere...the two here
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2384581
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2384585
have alot of visual impact...
The pattern #7 and #11 on the Yoneda site are similar...if you extend the tips of the radiating lines in pattern #7 you wind up with pattern #11,so #7 could represent a 'diluted' or incomplete form of #11...
Go Man Go(!)...
TTY,...
Ron
You know, I was thinking the exact same thing about #11 and #7...I also noted it sometimes the star is bigger or smaller, depending on the flower, so I think there's some overlapping combination with #8. Just my thought.
Wow Stacy those are just the Best I have seen in awhile. I love the one with the stidations... http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2384620 .....just beautiful sure am glad you posted them for us to see. Wow They Are Beauties.
Where did you get the seed??? And will you share???.......LOL
Thanks, everyone for the compliments. I wanted to say that before I forgot to, since I've been rambling about patterns...
Dee, I think I bought these seeds on eBay, but they didn't come out like the photo. Depending on how well the seed sets, I may have a few to go around, but I don't want to count my pods before they ripen...*G* Check out this one from your seeds that I got today. Definitely chocolate tye-dye!
Stacey!!!!!!!!! Gasp I am sooooooo jealous............LOL
I love everything the Chocolate Silk Morning Glory Family has given me and the tye dyes are not exception. I just love it..........save me some seed if you get some I gave every last one of mine away and the 6 I planted didn't make it.
That is very, very pretty.......the Chocolates are my favorites.
This is the beginning of the Chocolate tye dye that at one time I thought was in the sun smile mix. I have since had more like them from my Chocloate Silks which were not suppose to be crossed....well go figure......
Dee, you gave me tons of seed. I still have a lot of the original you gave me if you want some of it back. I'm not sure how many vines are on that teepee, but it can't be more than two, and one is the pink blizzard, so it shouldn't be hard to sort them out.
Simply lovely!!! I am so excited to see all of your lovely blossoms while I wait for mine to get going! I did my first MG's last year, with a few Heavenly Blue and a 2 wonderful groupings of Star of Yelta/Grandpa Ott's. This year I've gone hog wild! I have Texas Wine, Pink Star, Yuma Blue, Hanahubuki,Kyoko Pink, Morning Call Dwarf mix, and about a hundred going from a mix sent to me by Beverly Goltz! Each day I walk the yard checking their progress and giving them words of encouragement. I am hoing to see them clim my baby maples, my wishing well post, the fence post they took to last year, and my felled tree (pictured below). Having viewed your photos, I am breathless in anticipation!!!
Thank you for sharing!
