Can MG be grown in a hanging pot?

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MarkDPelhamNY Pelham, NY Apr 23, 2008

I've read forum posts about MG in a container in general, but most of them seem to use a trellis of some sort. Can MG also be grown to trail out of a hanging basket, or do they really need to climb something? Does anyone have pics showing how this looks?

Thanks,
Mark

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Gourd Mesilla Park, NM Apr 23, 2008

I grew some one year in CA in a hanging basket, and it kept climbing on the chains. I think that climbing is their nature and will hand down for a certain amount of length, then they wind onto themselves and climb back up. You might try the bush MGs, they stay pretty well put, I used them last year in baskets.

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gardener2005 Baton Rouge area, LA(Zone 8b) Apr 23, 2008

Here are some fancy Japanese Morning Glories expressing the weeping gene.

http://mg.biology.kyushu-u.ac.jp/

The links aren`t working for me...

write http:// (then copy and paste) mg.biology.kyushu-u.ac.jp/

When you get to the kyushu morning glory biology site type in the search box...weeping. Then click on the first entry in the search results. That should get you to the right page to see the interesting pictures of weeping Japanese Morning Glories.

The others Sunsmile and Kawaii can be looked up in plant files.



I have seen people grow sweetpotato vines in hanging baskets but I haven`t tried that. I did grow some sunsmile and also kawaii on a shelf and the plants trailed nicely downward and looked pretty.

Sunsmile: Comes in pink,dark pink,chocolate,lavender,purple and maybe others. The leaf is broad and variegated.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/152079/

Another with similar habit is Kawaii: Comes in same colors as Sunsmile but has solid green maybe a bit more slender leaf.

kawaii:

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/133793/

There is a kind called Carol white that looks like a white flowered Kawaii that is a creeper that may drape from a hanging basket.

I`m going to plant one of my Kawaii vines in a hanging basket and see how that goes.

Karen


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Gourd Mesilla Park, NM Apr 23, 2008

Oh, I hadn't thought of potato vine, I grow those in baskets all the time, the dark and green chartruse one. I always forget they are Ipomoea..

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MarkDPelhamNY Pelham, NY Apr 24, 2008

Thanks, all. I'm pretty new to MG and will spend some time with more traditional approaches (trellis and wall) for now.

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