Morning Glories 2007 # 14

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Here is my PLUM FROST 'Finally'

Oh my gosh, Emma! THAT MG bloom (above) is beautiful!!! I think I might have one or two of these seeds. I will be starting a seed for it if I am correct and have any left that I got from Cat! Really lovely!!!! What a wonderful pattern and color combo!

I thought I'd solved my chewed vines dilemma, but alas .... no. So I have been busy trying to devise a way to grow new MG vines in long rectangular planters surrounded by chicken wire. I have two mice .... an adult and a baby mouse in my yard. I've spotted them twice, so looks like they are here to stay until the flooding stops and things dry up. (Which may not be for some time.)

I think we have been getting all the rain that Texas got a month ago. It's been raining off and on for a couple weeks now. I plan to get the planters started tomorrow and out in the yard to benefit from all this rain. This is really hard having to deal with the mice and the rain when I am so anxious to grow some more MGs. Tomorrow ..... hopefully. :-)

You need sunglasses to see that flower, Emma! WOW!

Thanks Joseph and Becky.
I almost fell over when these started blooming.

Becky, the problem I've had with getting this bloom back is that #1 it has been sporatic. #2 SO many of my original Plum Frost seeds that I grew out, as well as others that I shared them with, has NOT given me/them 'Plum Frost' - but HAS given me some absolutely amazing MGs. Now, all I can do is see how this one will grow out, and I hope to do that this year with the first seeds. These have some powerfully strong genes.

Hope you get rid of your 'visitors'.

Emma

Emma, that is the most lovely MG. The way the darker star shows up on the lighter background is stunning.

Joanne

Thank you Joanne,
It is so unusual. I hope I can keep it True this time.

Emma

Another new one for me this year. . .
Watching it open

Emma

Almost open

Still Open at about 5:30 pm

This one doesn't want to give up.
Here it is STILL OPEN at 11pm

Emma, Love the Plum Frost, it's a beauty.

me too - the star spokes look a little like the narrow feathered lobes of a lace-leaf maple

Emma , don't get discouraged. These beauties have a major disadvantage, low seed numbers. This makes it take longer to get sustained results. If you got 300 seeds per flower as happens with some other flowers, your target zone would at least be in a larger group of seeds.

Plum frost is one outstanding flower.

We are having a cold summer here, and the Shibori flaked I have blooming on the porch are only 2.5 inches, but nice inches. Frank

I like the plum frost, hoping mine will flower soon to compare...

Emma - What is the MG that bloomed all day and into the night? That's quite amazing! I haven't grown one yet that didn't wilt the minute the sun touched it.

My Kohkan was huge this morning!

This was given to me as Xiongs from Arlan. Also a very large bloom!

Ronnie - Your Kohkan and Xiongs are beautiful. Love that white edging! Is that a red or scarlet color for the Kohkan?

Ronnie,
What a Show of Blooms. Just Gorgeous

Thanks Jackie, Becky, and bluespiral,

and especially Thank you Frank for the encouragement. Frank, 3 years ago I did grow a large number of these seeds and you wouldn't believe all of the awesome blooms that turned out. I've never seen anything like it. Only one was Plum Frost. But, like you say, I'll not give up yet. Maybe I can get it stabilized eventually. It is too pretty to give up on. Thanks again,

Emma

Emma - Perhaps you missed my question .... what is the all-day bloomer posted above?

Becky,
Yes, I did and just thought about that too. Sorry!

This one
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=3808207

Is a new MG from last year that I grew again this year that has remained True. I haven't given it a name yet.

It was open all day because of the rainy day we had and it happened to be hid in a corner where the rain didn't beat it up. . . Pretty neat, huh!
You will get similar blooms when the weather starts to cool down as well.

Emma

This 'Berlin Blue' isn't from the weather, but is another bloom that was still open at night that had turned to a deep Purple color

Here is 'Berlin Blue' in the morning.
Such a Bright Blue

Emma

Oooooooooooo Awwwwwwwwwwwww I LOVE em all!

Xiong's Chinese MG sure gets around LOL. Glad it is making such nice flowers, Ronnie.

Joseph

Yes Joseph it does!! Thanks..
Becky the Kohkan is more on ther red side than many but still not true red!!

Those are lovely! I love watching the blue ones that fade to purple. Emma, did you get any of the old Mandeville to sprout? None of mine did :(

Went to Ace Hardware to see if *maybe* they still had seeds since Wally World most definately did not. Yipeee!! They had the Burpee, including the Scarlett O'hara (sp?) I'd been wanting...sadly they didn't have the mixes ya'll had referred to on the previous thread but they did still have plenty of the "tall mix" - if anyone "needs" those, I'd be happy to pick some up.

Chantell - Here is my "Scarlett O'Hara" from Burpee. RON says it looks more like Wine and Roses.

This is one of the few vines I have left standing after the rodents decided to sharpen their teeth by severing my vines at the root. I've come up with a makeshift planter. If ya got a moment, take a peek at my new MG planter (scroll down to the bottom of this thread) to give me any suggestions before I fill it with dirt and plant some more MG seeds:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/754066/

OK, I pretty much lurk over a lot, not having too much to offer, but I have a couple of pics today!

Chocolate, a bit shredded from the previous night's rain, but I thought it made a nice shot.

Mutants on my blue picotee

Pure white I. nil

And some foliage sporting on the chocolate vine

Nother shot of the foliage

Later pic of the hige I showed on another thread that was underdeveloped.

And sunrise serenade, or was supposed to be.

Love all these threads BTW! So many MG's out there I "need" now lol

Becky - as pretty as that bloom is - I'm gonna be a tad upset since my goal was to plant a Red MG with a red Passi on a trellis in the back...ugh!!

Joseph,
YES, I love your Xiong -
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=3808814
AND,
It looks to me like it is STAYING TRUE!

Beth,
on the old Mandeville - that is one of many that I am going to be starting now that my world has settled down a bit. Have you gotten blooms since I've missed out on much of your Thread?

Azreno -
INCREDIBLE!
LOVE - LOVE - LOVE THIS ONE
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=3809678
HOLY SMOKES. . .
This is awesome foliage - wOw!
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=3809686

Thanks for sharing,
Emma

L@@K AT WHAT DIDN'T GROW BACK TRUE. . .

Now, this is the fun when I get a bloom that DOES NOT grow back 'True'.
I have about 50-MGs growing at one of our city facilities and haven't been there regularly. This is from one of those vine. I was there at about 11:30am and need to go early in the am and get a better shot of this beauty.
The photos don't do it justice as in person.
It is a SMOKY PLUM color.
Just Awesome. . .

Emma

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