Hi all! I am so excited--just bought my very first MG ever from one of the sellers at my local farmers' market. The problem is, although he told me the name, my leaky memory has lost it. I think it had "blue" in it--not a surprise, given what I found yesterday morning! It's an annual. I checked PlantFiles, and didn't see anything that looked quite right.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Looks like heavenly blue.
I wondered about that... Is the purple-magenta splotching significant? The pics I saw were all solid blue, so I wasn't sure if that was the correct ID.
thanks!
skimper - ditto on the ID...
Sorry Jill, just didn't think the leaves looked right, I'm glad you have a possitive ID!
Thanks all! 4 more blooms this morning--I'm in love!
Glad!your enjoying!your MG blooms.
Jill, I really like the white daisy growing beneath - can you tell me its name?
It's "Blackfoot daisy", Melampodium leucanthum--here's it's PlantFile:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/259/
I just love it, and am trying to figure out how to collect seed so I can make more--a definite keeper!
(edited to remove all the extra space I just realized my kitty inserted... sorry!)
This message was edited Aug 15, 2007 5:02 PM
Wow you are lucky. Mine burnt up at the end of June and now I want to know when to plant again. It's interesting the seed pkts are in the local stores now
Oh no, Irish9b, that's not encourging! I thought they did okay in our heat.. :(
Thanks, Jill. I'll have to worship it afar from the partially shady, humid vantage point of our hill. As an army brat, my family drove through a stretch of western desert back in the 60s from Texas to California, and I've been haunted by plants from that part of the world ever since. I remember miles of unbroken flat land with low growing, subtly colored plants - don't remember hardly any other cars back then - eery.
I just googled Arizona + "morning glory". Looks like y'all aren't s'posed to grow species of Ipomoea, except for I. carnea. But you have some other dainty genera, as in http://www.nazflora.org/Convolvulaceae.htm . I see some other no-nos there, but the evolvulus species look like they'd be wonderful among sage and artemisia species with poppies. The humidity this time of year around here gets me dreaming of desert gardens.
Bluespiral, I'm trying to collect seed from my daisies. If I'm successful and you're interested, I'd be happy to send you some--no harm in trying! Mine do get supplemental water and are lovin' it, maybe worth a shot for you as well. Just let me know.
I know of quite a few people in Phoenix who are growing MGs fairly successfully, so I am encouraged by their successes. They're so pretty! I did just get an evolvulus ("Blue Daze" cultivar, I think) this morning, looking forward to trying that one out too.
Jill, thank you - I'd be delighted to try it. There are a few sunny places among the rocks on our hill that just might be thanking you come next summer.
I successfully wintersowed a plant of Antirrhinum hispanicum ( http://web1.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modzz/00002093.html ) last winter and have some seed left over - would you like to have it? It's a small, spreading plant with pale pink snapdragon flowers with a tiny yellow throat. The leaves are slightly woolly and almost succulent. Right now, it's flowering, but is barely peeking out from Ipomoea nil Ukigumo. Ukigumo took so long to send out a runner that I thought it was going to be a dainty, small thing (NOT) and put it in my Miss Muffet's Tuffet bed (NOT).
I got the seed from the North American Rock Garden Society's ( http://www.nargs.org/ )seed exchange in early 2007 - they have mostly small plants for just about any habitat on the planet you can imagine - many fine for cottagey flower gardens and not necessarily limited to rock gardens.
Bluespiral, you have D-mail!
Thanks for the info but I would like to know when I can plant the heavenly blue seeds for our mild winter in AZ
Spring.
Thanks but I hoped maybe the end of sept. What do you think? Of course without the really cold weather of last year.
These are a summer annual for us, not a winter annual and with average first frost date for Phx being late November it wouldn't be worth it to me but I guess it's a personal decision.
How about planting a pot indoors? There are quite a few threads in past winters by folks growing MGs indoors - surprising results - worth checking out.
