Random photos

I was just looking around and came across these. What I wouldn't give for this one! It just GLOWS!

http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/press/asagao.html

It was heart warming to see Heavenly Blue amongst the extreme JMGs!

I think these may be candies...just too cute to eat (and probably don't taste all that great to us)
http://www.kagosei.co.jp/

Very nice, and I'm not real partial to pinks!
http://web.hosp.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/photo/nature/asagao.jpg

I wouldn't mind having this one, either.
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~lycoris/asagao.edo.7.JPG

An extreme blue silk I really gotta have! It seems familiar...are there any floating around right now that resemble this one?

Bizarre and disturbing...what some people call art?
http://shenghuonet.com/phpBB2/albums/userpics/10775/morning%20glory%20painting.jpg

whats the second flower

OOHH I love the double lavender one!!!

I don't know what the second one is called, but it's a double morning glory, probably sterile. You can see the leaves are variegated at the bottom of the photo. I found a couple that looked like peonies, they were so frilly!

http://shenghuonet.com/phpBB2/albums/userpics/10775/morning%20glory%20painting.jpg

It looks like the artist must have just finished bidding on ebay and spent too much money so the frustration shows on the canvas.

The next painting will show a plate of beans and corn bread with a Japanese morning glory flower as a garnish. :)

That image shows the heartbreak of using JMGs for laxatives. LOL

So he is torn up inside and feeling light headed? Maybe he wanted to warn others not to eat morning glory seeds...you feel sick and see things like this?

Note to self: JMG seeds are for planting not eating or making tea. :)

Gardener, you crack me up! LOL I can relate to those suggestions. Maybe the artist was outbid and was feeling really torn up about losing those seeds. Does the mangled torso reflect the artist's inner angst, or what the artist wants to do to the bidder who drove the price through the roof?

Would this flower be sterile because of the design of the bloom (where an insect cannot pollinate) or due to a genetic condition? If it is just the shape of the bloom it could be hand pollinated by exposing the pollen and hand pollinating it. It is lovely!!!

LOL! Too Funny!

About the double flowers. I have seen flowers with a pistil(little white tube in the middle) and small underdeveloped anthers that are not releasing pollen. Then I see some that only have pollen and no pistil. I have seen a very pretty double with only one single anther of pollen and I used that on some that only had a pistil with no pollen being released and got seeds like that. If there is nothing there in the way of reproductive parts then it is sterile.

This message was edited Jan 19, 2007 3:00 PM

Despite the obvious humor inherent in it > I like this 'image'...it's somewhat pleasing to my minds eye...
http://shenghuonet.com/phpBB2/albums/userpics/10775/morning%20glory%20painting.jpg
Everything is coming up Morning Glories... "Everything is a Rorschach"...every sight,morning glory pattern,sound,taste,touch,smell,memory,etc...reflects parts of our inner selves...

This one is a double 'botan' and as Karen mentioned,they are usually sterile due to the reproductive parts turning into regular petals...
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=3100568

TTY,...

Ron

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The flower would definitely be sterile if it's missing the pistil or lacking pollen. I just couldn't tell from the photo with the double bloom obscuring the reproductive parts.
Beth

Yep, you can`t tell at a glance. That is interesting to know that is a double 'botan' and that is why I started checking my double picotees and helping out with pollenating. It helped increase the number of successful seedpods.

That extreme Blue Silk looks similar to this one that I grew last year although the coloring on mine is a little lighter. I don't recall planting this one...I think it might have self sown in a large container I grew Blue Silk in the prior year....

Sandy

Blue Silk or Akatsuki no Tsuyu has a white throat and tube...looks like the flower above picked up a fuchia-pink throat...possibly from the 'Blue Henka'...

Check out the JMGs on this blog, some of them truly are to die for:

http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/02pokkiesgarden2/archive/c286995

Those are the most beautiful I have seen. Those are incredible!

Wow, what an overload! I really like the dianthus ones, and was amazed to see some cristate forms as well. I used to collect cristates of other types of plants, so that is just near and dear to me. :-)

I'd like to get seeds for some of those superdwarf types. It's amazing to see this tiny, compact plant make huge flowers!

How about those nicely distorted leaves on some of the cultivars?

And that one that is deep purple with pure white exserted tube and lime green leaves, about 95% the way down the web page...ahhh! I saw on some of the images that the grower really packed in the containers close to each other. I enjoyed looking at his/her method for starting seeds, way down towards the bottom.

This message was edited Jan 22, 2007 2:36 PM

WOW they're spectacular!! I like the half white half purple one the best!!

I saw that one too, and drooled...

Loved the dbl, triple shibori types, the dark chocolate and the almost red with
white bars not to mention the white with the pale powdery blue. Liked some of
the weird ones too.