Here is one more different looking one. It is pastel pink with lavender striping and light blizzard markings. These are just plain old ipomoea nil mixed flowers turning out some interesting forms and I simply have hand pollinated,marked and saved pods to grow again and presto the look comes back.
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Karen, I like the blue with unusual petals but I love the pink. Very pretty.
Jackie
Thanks Karen,
And
Thank You Jackie,
I hope you will help me grow out Plum Frost next year.
Emma
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Emma, I would love to grow out a few of the Plum Frost seeds next yr.
Thank you so much.
Jackie
P. Bush, you guys, this had been blooming alot, only a couple of solids but the rest are gorgeous..
Emma, saving you lots of seeds from the lighter ones. All are being tagged, but I did not tag the more solid color one (so far only a couple have bloomed that way)..
Candy Pink
Blue Tie Dye, now this blue tie dye from Parks threw a feathered flower but I have not had time to take too many photos (DH had surgery and alot of other things going on)..
Don't really have anything new, but wanted to post a couple of flowers.. You all have some beauties.
Chacha Maru
These look good together..
Now this one bloomed in my Agaves... Need ID on this one. tiny little flower and heart shaped leaves.
here's the seed pod..
Pink Tie Dye
Some Pink Rambler
Chocolate'
Pretty! Pink Rambler looks like it is growing in the rocks!
Dark Purple purpurea.. last one..A.
Gourd:the blue Mt.Fuji mg is pretty!from Parks.
A, I love the PB!! Great pictures by the way. What kind of camera do you have?
Skimper, the light blue Mt. fuji no sora was from JWRMO and the Blue Tie Dye is from Parks..
Hey there Ronnie, it is a Fuji FinePix 2650 (for fuji flowers..lol)
Here are some lavender flowers and for the life of me, I cannot remember which pot they came from.
Don't know which these are either.. but they are pretty
Patootie, I did not forget you.. here is spidy along for the ride.
Gourd:The photo of your unknown looks like seiun mg.Here is a photo of my seiun mg.
Thank you Skimper, I'll go check it out.. I did have a packet of those, but don't remember if I planted some.
Here is a photo of Sazanami (light color) dont' know if I spelled that right...
I have alot of the same flowers blooming and I hope you all don't get bored.
edited for spelling ("")
This message was edited Aug 21, 2007 8:11 PM
These are still going, Chocolate Picotee
Gourd:keep posting those mg photos.Nobody could get bored.Nice! Photos.
Antoinette,
WHAT A SHOW.
All are simply stunning.
Really love your P. Bush.
Hard to pick a favorite from that group.
Emma
OMG, A....that Chocolate Picotee IS beautiful!!!!!!!!!!
All Your mg are pretty!I love!the blue tye dye mg from Parks.
A, they're all gorgeous. Thanks for sending me a Count Dracula pic,
an absolutely beautiful m glory. I love the Blue Tie Dye, Pres Bush.,
and the two with ruffled flowers above Count D.
Karla, lovely Seiun m g
Jackie
Gourd-Antoinette
Very harmonious blending of color tones...
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/Gourd_1187742789_912.jpg
The irridescence of these is particularly outstanding offset against that nicely darkened background...excellent pleasing contrast...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=3883896
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=3883901
Looks like either "Hattie Bell" or one of Emma's Lavenders...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=3884066
What pefect color matching...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=3884072
WOW(!)
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=3884084
Ethereal...
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/Gourd_1187746303_452.jpg
Happy Face(!)
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/Gourd_1187746429_236.jpg
Ipomoea lacunosa
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=3883907
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=3883913
TTY,...
Ron
Ron,
Thank you so much for everything.. you are right, it is Hattie Bell... went to check the pot, I wonder where that I. lacunosa came from?? I'll have to see if I even had seeds for that.
Thanks everyone for the compliments, hope you all have tons of blooms..
Emma - am enjoying those frosted MGs very much
Ronnie - love the way you got the dappled light - looks like you got those flowers the moment they opened
Ron - thanks for comments on flaked MGs - I'm lost in understanding how some of these genetic terms relate to the pictured physical manifestations - not ready to articulate questions
Arlan - the one that Ron thinks may be a speckled Botan from the Q0663 system - out of this world
Holly - what a great idea that window box is - those caladiums really extend the tonalities of the MGs into darker & paler realms
Chantell - love to see anything growing in the wild just as Mother Nature arranged it - delicate flowers look more delicate, designs are somehow strengthened
Karen-05 - the pink is my favorite, too
A. - wonderful how clear and luminous your pictures are - all so beautiful
Karla, Joseph, Brittany, Jackie - great appreciation & applause - another art form imho
May I run an idea past y'all? I don't know if I'll ever take a decent picture - am working on it. Meanwhile, if y'all could do some bouquets of MGs, too, that would be so incredible. Here's a fuzzy one from me - going clockwise from top left corner, the rain-drizzled, late-picked flowers are: Hamaginga, Royal Robe, Gray Morning Mist, Rebecca, F2 from a "Baby Blue" I. youjiro, Indigo Feathers, with "Rosey Red, Blooms Like Crazy" in the middle. All came from Emma, except the Indigo Feathers from PamSue. I'll try to get better pictures in the future. I owe a lot of you big time for this year's extravaganza of MG flowers.
Hi ya, Karen! Nice to see you!! Just a suggestion - as I'm not sure what camera you're working with...most the time pics are fuzzy (out of focus) due to 3 main reasons: 1) The camera is too close to subject to focus properly 2) The photo is cropped too much w/photo software and/or 3) Movement of camera or the hands taking the pic. Your's doesn't look like #3 though. Try taking the pic from at least a couple of feet away from subject - if you have a zoom feature on your camera back up around 5 feet and use the zoom to get a tighter shot. Hope that helps.
Love all these MG's w/the petals that come to a point - very nice!!
This message was edited Aug 22, 2007 4:08 PM
Thanks for the compliments. I think I`m in love with Japanese Morning Glories. :)
Chantell - that was very helpful advice. You're right - #1 it is. I need to figure something out besides using piles of books for a tripod that will give me some flexibility in distance from the subject. I don't know how I could actually fit a tripod in our tiny old mill worker's house anyway.
I have found that taking pictures indoors with an incandescent light bulb gives me color much truer to morning glories than doing it outdoors. I thought that juxtaposing Gray Morning Mist with the others might show off its unusual coloring - hoping that someone with better camera skills than mine will play around with that.
Having said the foregoing, here's a seedling from Emma's Gray Fog. It really is that pink, but what a pink! love those gray shadows in it.
Bluespiral:Nice!photo of Gray Fog mg.I like the color.
Thank you Karla. It's hard to get the camera up above the arbor where the MGs prefer to bloom. In the what-was-I-thinking department, did I really think the flowers would hang down like wisteria? Maybe I'll have to put concrete blocks around for perches - all the ground slopes too much for a step ladder.
Here's another one of my bad pictures - had to wave the camera around in the vicinity of the flower way over my head hoping I'd capture it. Do tripods come with periscopes - lol?
Emma's Velvet Plum -
bluespiral, the color of the Velvet Plum is superb!
Everyone - gorgeous blooms! This is indeed my favorite forum to lurk in!
Joanne
Karen - THOSE colors!!! Wow...that one is REALLY nice!!! BTW...my trellis is in a perfect spot for taking pics...LOL However not for walking down my deck stairs...goofy me put it over the bottom 1/2 of the stairs...if you don't know better you walk directly INTO it with your head. Now how smart was that? LOL
Thanks, Jo. One thing about Velvet Plum - it's not like the shorter, less exuberant Ipomoea nils. Being an Ipomoea youjiro, Velvet Plum is like a nil on steroids - this is one huge monster of a vine. If you grow it in a pot, you might want to be ready with your nipping skills; that is, be ready to nip it when it gets to the top of its support. There will be lots of vigorous side shoots after that top nip to wrap around the supports - you may want to nip those back, too. To tell a tall tale - if that deer had stood still a moment longer to snack on this vine, the vine would have been snacking on it!
Here's Ipomoea purpurea 'Indigo Feathers' just as sun hits it in the morning. It's actually a deep, dark velvety purple. Speaking about traits good for the gardener to be prepared about, this vine, like other I. purpureas I have grown, can take a surprising amount of shade. Here it is beneath a monster silver maple with a monster mulberry taking up the slack in the understory -
