I might have posted this pic somewhere along the way, but as I was going through photos tonight I came across this one and just thought "Wow". The days of winter are getting long and I am aching for spring and the promise of morning glories! I'm not sure which cultivar this is, but it doesn't really matter :)
Sandy
I WANT IT!!!
Words fail - beyond heavenly
What a beautiful pair of flowers. Your picture is so crisp and clear! They remind me a lot of one of the Sazanami I grew last year also....
http://davesgarden.com/journal/j/si/109523/
Arlan
Really nice photo Sandy...Sazanami...
Nice !photo Sandy. M.Glorys are just Beautiful!
Holy Smokes, Sandy....
As I get off the floor, What a beauty.
Yours too, Arlan. Really Pretty.
Emma
Wow, that's just fantastic!
WOW what a beauty!! Now the big question...Did you get seeds!?
Wowzers!!!!!! Both are beautiful. Did you save seeds, Sandy???
:) Donna
Thanks everyone...they are an attention grabber, aren't they? Unfortunately I can never, if ever get seeds from the JP MGs I grow here. They don't start blooming for me until sometime in August no matter how early I start them. I've just got to find a way now, don't I?!
Sandy
They are such beauties! I was inspired by the picture of these and ordered some Sazanami from ebay a while back exept they were a dark version and I`ll share results from those next year.
What happens to them? Do they have time to form pods? Just curious. You can start a pot with the trellis in it and grow them by themselves away from any structure they could get entangled into and then bring them inside to finish up making pods.
The vine dies back and sometimes they get to looking bad when they are setting seed but that is normal and sort of a price to pay for the beauty much like waiting for bulbs foilage to finish nourishing the bulb and dies back. I have pulled the seed setting vines around behind the trellis and planted something else to hide the mess more than once.
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Just gorgeous!
Yes, I can usually get pods, but then the frost hits and they turn to mush. I have tried growing JP MGs in a carrying-size pot, put them in the garage when the weather turned too cold, but they still did not ripen. Is the trick to bring them totally inside? My den has an east facing window...would that work? Thanks :)
Yes,that would work. Immature pods do not make it in cold freezing weather. It may not be a pretty sight right at the last when the loaded with pods plant is almost finished but it is well worth the wait! Good luck next year and maybe we could share seeds if you like anything I grow out next year. :)
Seedsower, last fall a bunch of us were bemoaning a frost 2 - 4 weeks earlier than usual, and Ron came to the rescue by suggesting we cut the vines with immature pods with as much length as possible and grow them on indoors. I did it under lights, changing the water every few days with a tsp of hydrogen peroxide to keep slime away (it worked). It took several weeks, but I went from having no mature pods in October to enough to share and see what the next generation would bring this summer.
Sooooo, if immature pods can be ripened that way, you should be well ahead of the game with pots.
For those of us with back issues and a dearth of flat places on a hillside to perch a pot upon anyway, what's the smallest size pot a vine like Sazanami could be grown in to give a show and a few pods?
It depends on how mature the pods are. The more mature on the vine the better. If they are grown full size and just need to ripen and dry then the stems in water will work great.
The water vase method worked very well for some of mine this past year as well. The very green pods did not make it because they just werent big enough or able to get nourishment from the mother plant...they got "weaned" too soon. :)
I did dig one up and bring it inside and it went ahead and developed pods because it was able to get fed from the roots.
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Sandy,
Wow that is beautiful..
A.
I am really interested by the pattern on these. The photo is just awesome. That is just gorgeous!
