1st winter Morning Glory bloom

I planted seeds several weeks ago hoping for some winter Morning Glories, and the first opened this morning. I should have a few different colors, plus some Moon Vines.

Here are some of the plants.

really nice

Lovely pink.

Pretty in Pink!!

Second flower open today.

Nice purpurea. The light pink looks like a form of Crimson Rambler.

Nice colors in winter!

One of the few things this time of year without a light bulb!

That pink should really chase the winter blues away!

Third color open today.

One of the vines has varigated leaves.

Those are beautiful plants ! Maybe we should plant some morning Glory seeds out !

Not a good shot, but another color today.

That is a pretty purple and all the plants are looking beautiful. I have some little sprouts trying them inside.

Another lovely bloom.

Oh the purple is so deep and pretty ! I had Hubby plant some Morning Glory seeds out yesterday ! Sunny hear today low 66 high in the low 80's yesterday was sunny 84 !

New ones today, including one mini-bloom, only one inch across!

This one failed to open fully, it would have been an unusual one.

The large and the small.

Very pretty !

Beautiful glories! I love the mixed colors.

gardenpom - nice flowers...could you post a photo showing the sepals on the outside base of the larger fuchia colored bloom in the photo here...
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/gardenpom_1166487318_48.jpg

Only if you feel like it...

Thanks...

Ron

I will when I get another bloom open on that one. That failed bloom above, I have had a few others the same color, all have not opened properly. Any reason that happens that you know of?

We recently had a power outage of 3 days after a storm. I noticed that my MG's in the front window suddenly started producing "deformed" looking blooms, or blooms that failed to open completely and were split. I think it was the sudden drop in temps since without heat the inside temps took a nosedive. Now that the heat is back on, I'm hoping they return to normal.
Beth

Can't be blamed on weather here, it's been beautiful with temps of around 70.

Sometimes the cold temperatures causes deformaties or lack of water causes not enough > turgor pressure to enable the blooms to open up fully...sometimes a particular strain may have a much higher tendency to opening deformities and sometimes even a strain that usually opens up nice will 'throw' some that don't...> on the extra large flowered Ipomoea nil the tube structure is often just not stiff enough >it's the 'nature of the beast'...

TTY,...

Ron

Thanks Ron, more bad ones today, I think it is one of the weaker glories. I may never get a good flower from that one.

OK Ron, I hope this is what you wanted. It was dark and rainy here this morning, I had to use flash.

gardenpom - That's exactly(!) what I wanted to see...great shot...and answers the question that I had in my mind as to the identity of the plant species...it is Ipomoea nil...

Some of the other blooms you posted are of Ipomoea purpurea and I was looking at the heart shaped leaves and wondering what you had going on there...

Thanks again...

Ron

Todays blooms.

My variegated one has this nice edged flower.

Close-up of Morning Glory beauty.

Great photo's.

Blooms from this morning.

two beauties

Two more beauties.

This message was edited Dec 28, 2006 8:01 PM

Those are sooo very beautiful !

Thanks....I love venturing out in the morning to see what colors are blooming.

Oh that's how I was when ours were blooming ! I had my husband plants some more seeds last week and the plants are coming up ! Sunny 80 tomorrow ! I am hopeful for pretty flowers !