Morning Glories 2006 #2

Ipomoea albivenia, from South Africa.

Cameo Elegance JMG sharing a container with Salvia juriscii, I trust the relationship will be a good one. LOL No flowers yet, just nicely marbled leaves.

Joseph

Ipomoea lindheimeri, has been flowering for a month and a half.

And lastly, Ipomoea spp. from South Africa. No flowers yet, but it has interesting leaves.

Interesting!

These are JMGs but it shows some leaves I thought were wierd but then I could see they were neat. They look like birds flying around.

Joseph. Can the curved leaves be due too to cold/hot or to dry air??? and how old are the flowerless plants.
I start to feel pretty alone with my not growing flowerless plants.
But I think I know why the are so close to the ground. UV radiation is SKYHIGH here right know on a scale that they messure the UV radiation here, we are just over 7 (goes to 9) and normal is just below 5.
They have issued serious warning not to have kids out at noon 10 AM to 3 PM and they NEVER issued warnings before. This is the thinnest Ozon lair we have had since they started to do regular messures in1988.

Gardener, pretty foliage, not weird at all.
Janett

Hi MG Gardeners,

The leaf curling on the JMG's is caused by different sections of the leaves growing at different rates...when the outer edge stops growing,or grows at a much slower rate than the central portion of the leaf,then you get curling edges and an upward 'ballooning' of the central portion of the leaf...like on the one Joseph is showing here
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2463009

Sometimes the outer edge will grow at a much faster rate than the inner portions and can result in somerthing that looks like this one here
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2463217

You can also see that there is a difference of the manner of growth of the plant tissue inbetween the veins(!) of the inner leaf sections and of the actual vein tissue itself...this also causes a distortion of a type that looks different than a 'normal' leaf...sometimes leaves that are infected with viruses can look similar to these structural changes as the viruses can drain and impair the usual ratio and flow of vital growth substances within the leaves...

The Japanese Morning Glories that show the unusual 'mutated' curling,balooning and twisting of the leaves, mimic the viruses in certain ways by altering the usual balance of tissue growth related substances,... and it is this type of 'imbalance' in the growth substances that can also result in the unusual mutations of the flower bloom...remember that the flowers are actually modified leaf tissue...

TTY,...

Ron

P.S. Janett - I see you have been doing your 'homework' on the UV(!)...eat more vanilla,as vanilla helps to form increased levels of pre-oxidized melanin(induced by UVA) that becomes oxidized by the UVB and thereby protects the skin from alot of the entire UV spectrum by the skin tanning...although tanning provides little protection from the increasing levels of UVC...





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Thanks Ron for the in depth information about the flowers we love...btw

I`m not trying to hi jack the thread but....I found an interesting mutation in my pink picotee JMGs this morning. ha :)

LOL--there's that Prostrate Creeping Cattail again--Typha felix domesticus prostratus!! I have two in my yard also. Very invasive. Keep a close watch as they are very toxic to birds and small mammals, too. :-)) Your 'cattail' makes a nice combination with your picotee though (giggle).

And now, getting back on subject. Here is one of my pink convolvulus blooms.

Thank you for the information, Ron, I learn so much in these threads!

Joseph

Oh nice flowers..................kitty too

Ron........It just klicked when i was wondering about why they didnt grow, in fact ALL my plants act this way, even the Daylilie that has been putting out flowers to the summer solstice the last four years. Then it hit me........ what you said regarding my Chocolate getting sunburned and checked our UV........

Now how the heck do I feed Vanilla to my MG:s :0)) rotflol.
Janett

Just a quick update on the blue blizzard. It is not a fluke. This one is beginning to churn out these beautiful blue streaked flowers. I love these!

Another closer up. Enjoy!

Leaves of Chocolate MG, seeds from Janett (thanks Janett!).

Joseph

My Ethiopian MG flowered!! Its small flowers were there and jumped out at me yesterday by surprise! (Thanks Emma for the seeds!)

Joseph

Side view of the Ethiopian MG.

Joseph

You are welcome Joseph!! when can I see flowers on the beauty?
My Chocolate looks SOOOO sad and tangled out on the fence, but it have started to come back and put out flowerbuds again.

Oh oh oh. tomorrow if it doesnt rain I will get out and dig up a small wild MG (kreeper). They dug out the ditches along the road to the village I live just outside of this spring and today when I took a bike ride to town and on my way home (uphill) I walked and found this small flowering pink/white MG growing all along the ditch. Will take picture too
It doesnt look like the Arvensis I have seen before, this is much smaller and have more pronounde(sp) pink star then the one Ii am used to see.
Janett

OooooH NEAT, Joseph....
You did get blooms, and you are very welcome for the seeds.

I haven't even started any yet.
Guess, I'd better get with it!

Janett,
Looking forward to your blooms of the small pink.
I'd LOVE seeds if you get any.

Emma

Janett,

I bet that mg you collected will be very nice addition to your garden, what a find!

Emma,

I have more flowers that will open today of the Ethiopian mg...hope I have pollinators visit them!

That's funny about having not started any of them...you must have your hands full with the current crop, yes? (pondering how many cultivars she has going LOL). I was able to wake up the Transvaal mg from South Africa and also the Q751 mg from Japan, so it will be exciting here if they flower up for me.

Joseph

Had to wait untill this afternoon to go and get the MG:s. It was raining hard so the flowers where a "bit" battered. The lighter next to the flowers are as big as a normal Bic lighter.
Janett

Here is the flower

Here is a bit blurry side shot

And from the back

A leaf

Backside of the leaf

Janett, Very pretty little morning glory.

Jackie

Look what I found this morninng when googling.
http://www.guiamarina.com/balticsea/02%20Plants/03%20Terrestrial%20Phanerogams/Anagallis%20arvensis.htm

Ron.........HELP
Janett

Janett, that looks like Texas Bindweed or maybe something that's kinfolks to it.

Just found the pic in Audubon Field guide. Does appear to be a bindweed, Convolvulus sepium, described as pink with white striping.
I still like it.

Jackie

I like it too, Janett....
NICE!

Yes, Joseph, too many babies.
I still have quite a few MG's I want to get started.- hopefully this weekend.

Emma

Janett - The plant you found is Convolvulus arvensis and the elongated white colored 'bifid' stigma is clearly visible in this picture you posted here
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2489257

This species is not native to the US,like the many Calystegia species that are truly native to the USA,especially in California,and most people have a horrendous problem with Convolvulus arvensis being wickedly invasive...but the plant may not be such a terrible problem in Northern Europe...
The comments in the PlantFiles will attest to the species being the object of vilification
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/32093/index.html

Here is a very unusual looking Convolvulus arvensis called 'Frescatii' with a bloom pattern similar to Convolvulus tricolor
http://www.hobbyodlaren.com/convfres.html#
I'd be interested to locate some of the Convolvulus arvensis 'Frescatii' for my collection...

TTY,...

Ron

Thanks Ron.
And no the Arvensis isnt as invasive here. I have been walking past this road ditch sooo many times the last four years and it hasnt been there untill the dug the ditch wider this spring. I guess there where a lot of seeds hid in the ditch dirt.
I bike (NO motor)a lot arround here and I have never seen it anywhere else and I have been looking :0))

I have a strong feeling of where the Frescatii came from in the beginning since the only resours I found on it came from Sweden.
We have a VERY old garden called the Bergianska Trädgården. The land and money was donated by the two brothers Bergius in1791 to the Sience Akademi. From the beginning it was situated smack in the middle of our Capitol BUT it has always been cared for by students and teachers/professors from the University Frescati where they also vastly studied hybridising and geneologi and their focus has always lay more to "GARDEN" then farming Hyb/Gen. They also collected plants from all over the world. In 1885 it was moved to be closer to the University and our Natural History Museum just on the outscirtes of the Capitol to the area that has the name Frescati.
Janett

Janett_D - Very interesting history about the association of the Bergianska Trädgården and the University of Frescati...

Thanks(!)

Ron

We have very few MGs that will take our summer weather, acuminata (a big weed here) a few unremarkable natives and carnea (a shrub from southern Brazil). I like the white carnea the best.

THAT was a pretty one. I got seeds from Emma of the pink Carnea but so far no buds on it.
Janett

Janett,

Probably in fall you will see them. Your summer days are too long for them to bloom. We have flowers all year because our days don't go over about 13 hrs. If your plants get too tall don't be afraid to pinch it back a few leave, they flower more when they are multi stemmed. I have seeds for the white if you ever want to try them.

I am placing an order for ipomoea species from S.Africa, the bush kind. Should be interesting to see what Silverhill Seeds plants turn out to look like.

That is my only MG photo, or is it?

dale...........no fair rubbing it in! all year, don't i wish!

entrance to one of my gardens!

and still waiting for MY ethiopians to flower...can't wait to see a yellow in the group!

tobee43
How many mgs do you have planted at the base of that arbor? It is beautiful!

hummer, actually i plant them in rather large pots with three bamboo sticks and then put the pots by the trellis. i'd say there were approx 2 packages of seeds in each pot. so it's actually an illusion. :)

i just wanted to explain a bit further. the trellis has pot holders on each side. so i place the pots on the holders. they grow over everything so you can see niether the pot or the holders.

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