Joseph, please don't wait for the perfect flower. We want to see pics.
Don't care if they're big or small, perfect or imperfect.
Here's my 1st pics, they were outside and all washed out from the sun.
I still have a lot to learn about taking pics. I was no good at this
when I used a 35 mm.
So nothing has changed just because I now have a digital. LOL
Blue Star of India
If it is a cool morning tomorrow, I will try to snap some pictures. If it is hot and humid, when I take the camera outside, the lens and viewfinder fog up! Really frustrating when that happens!!
Joseph
PS Patootie, that is a beautiful JMG ghere, love the star, almost shimmers there in your hand.
Joseph,
Just a hint.... set your camera outdoors for a short time before you get ready to take pictures and that will take care of the fogging problem.
Louanne
This is Ipomoea Carnea ssp fistulosa
Thank you Joseph. Everytime the Blue Star flowers, the pattern is different.
Here is a washed out ChaCha Maru. It opens kind of chocolate looking, then fades to mauve.
Edited to say wish I hadn't sent this one, out of focus and washed out.
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This has been the first year that I have planted MG's. Didn't know how beautiful they were or how fast they grow. Started out with a small trellis but soon found out they will out grow a small trellis so my wife added bigger ones. Wow what would I do with out her around. They loved it & filled them up to. She asked if I thought that they would grow up the stalks of our 12' sunflowers. Did't know so I planted one at the base of each. Makes a good trellis & when you harvest the head of the sunflower just leave the stock. If any one would like seeds I have more than I will ever use. Never knew about where flower seeds came from until this year. Have already set up 3 green houses. My wife thinks I've lost it but she is finding that I'm really not. If we can make it grow from seed we love it.
portagee, It's a pretty morning glory. Thanx for sharing.
Jackie
Thanks for all the new pictures. Isn`t summer fun with all these new flowers?! I love it!!!
Absolutely beautiful flowers!!!!
Joseph, Those are just incredible photo's. I especially like
the Berry Ice/Xiong's chinese glory. Janett's chocolate is a beauty.
All in all, a wonderful treat..
Thank you so much for sending these.
Can't wait to see Red Burst.
Jackie
WOW Joseph they are gorgeous. The Xiong does look like the Berry Ice. Hopefully Ron is dropping by.
No how in the world did you manage to get the right colour to show in the Chocolate picture. I have tried hundreds of different ways to photograph it and mine shows pink/red in the picture. Your pic shows the frosty brown.
portagee25 welcome to DG..............haha so your wife think you lost it?? :0)) just stick around in this forum and she will get proof that you have. Welcome to the MG madness........... its contagious
Janett
Patootie and Janett,
Thanks so much for your nice comments! Janett, I use a 35mm film camera, focus and shoot and get the pictures developed and put on a CD. I also took the photo early in the morning before the sun came around the house. Once the sun directly hits the flower the pigments seem to change. Maybe I just got lucky? LOL
Joseph
Joseph they are BEAUTIFUL. Better save those seeds!!!
The overcast mornings are perfect. But then you got to be lucky to have the cloudy but not too cloudy sky combined with no rain.
Awesome pictures!!!
I wanted to drop back in to say the xiong seems like it is more purplish than the berry ice and it appears to have a wider margin of white. They are both very Beautiful!!!
More Pic's of my Morning Glories. If anyone would like seeds for next year let me know.
Those are breathtaking, Portagee25!!!!
Love the color.
Jackie
This just have to be Kanoko. Sadly the flowers is about over and done when I finally manage to get a pic.
Janett
This is from Emma labeled "Lilac Luster" The star looks black but it is a dark fushia colour going almost to dark red.
Janett
Beautiful!!!!!
Louanne
Janett, both are lovely.
Jackie
Hey guys - computer related difficulties and some other matters = haven't been posting as much,mbut will try to catch up asap...
Joseph - congrats(!) on the photos...very helpful....I'm tending to agree with the view that the BerryIce in the photos above looks like a slight variant of the 'Xiong's fabulous Chinese MG' flower...the sepals look almost identical and so in this case are not differentiating between the two flower variations...although the Xiongs looks to be displaying at least one of the multiple genes responsible for a wider outer rim margin...
The Furisode looks remarkably similar to a Lavender silk...
The leaves on the Ipomoea species I tentatively called redburst are somewhat different than I had anticipated...the seeds and very small photo I received looked to be Ipomoea hederifolia or possibly an Ipomoea coccinea,but the leaves in the photo you posted above,so far aren't displaying very typical leaves of either of the suspected species...perhaps as the plant matures,the leaves may develop more typical characteristics...or,maybe it will turn out to be a different species...let's see what develops...
Janett - the color on your chocolates is looking good...although the repoductive parts on the Kanoko here
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2602417
look to be displaying the darkened discoloration of the unfortunate premature senescence that can afflict these types resulting in little or low seed production...
The colors on Everyones MG's look great...
Regarding predicting the outcome of intraspecific crossings of different Morning Glory colors,I'd like to mention that the outcome of color crossings in MG's is not as easy or as 'cut and dry' as occurs in other Families of plants...
There are numerous genes that are responsible for the various colors,sizes and patterns and these manifold genes display varying(!) degrees(!) of incomplete(!) dominance(!) or recessiveness...the genes of incomplete(!) dominance and recessiveness may not show up for several generations,so usually when someone mentions a strain that is 'pure' for a particular trait,I (understandably?)> look up to heaven...additionally,there are a number of plants that are going to display polymorphic loci,allelomorphic mutations as well as other types of various mutations...so ,without the instant genetic analysis availble to well funded laboratories to know precisely what it is that you have>predicting the outcome and determining the hows and whys of what has occurred to produce a particular looking flower is 'just not as simple' as it is in other plant Families...
Convolvulacea uses a basic pollen intraspecific compatibility system that uses a 4 code system,as compared to many other families of plants that use a simpler 2 code system...this 4 code system contributes to the difficulties encountered in various degrees of self-incompatibility within the same species...additionally Convolvulacea uses what is known as double pollination>where a single pollen granule caries and delivers 2 (!) sperm cells which are used to fertilize a single ovule...this is a more complicated system than the more usual single pollination system where only 1 sperm cell fertilizes a single ovule...
The combination of the above factors related to pollen compatibility/acceptabilty to all subparts of the gynoecium combined with the aspects of double fertilization make the usual outcome predictions applicable to other Families of plants 'inoperative' as applicable to Convolvulaceae and so>I usually refrain from going into alot of 'fine' details on this particular aspect because of the complicated 'quagmire' of potentialities involved...because there really isn't any simple 'cut and dry' method of determing what you have or what it is going to produce...
Keep growing and enjoying the flowers despite the mechanisms involved in how the different colors and patterns are produced...
TTY,...
Ron
P.S. - attached is a photo reproduced from an article in the PNAS showing the variations in color resulting from dominant and recessive genes at the a,p,i and w loci and a link to Mark Rausher's lab
http://www.duke.edu/~mrausher/wloc.htm
Well great to see you writing again Ron. I will have to come back and read this again later when I have more time. Very informative! Thank you!
And now I recall people were writing something about their pictures being not so good...you know no great photo ops.
The other morning I found this interesting almost white flower and worked on trying to get a good picture for what seemed like an eternity. When I got in to download I was shocked to see such a sight in the background...(Why didn`t I see that?!!)
I`m almost ashamed to post such trashy pictures. I hope they are allowed. :~)
Check out the Lovely background.
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Yes, those are trash cans in the background of the first picture. That isn`t very flattering.
It is a good thing I had better luck this morning. I was almost too tired to fool with pictures but I dragged myself out there and there it was just sitting there waiting for me. It only took one second to snap this picture. This is a much better picture to make up for what happened the other day!!!
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