Morning Glories 2008 #15

Beautiful blooms Joseph & Ronnie. Just outstanding blooms.

Becky, the flowers of the dianthus JMG are small, very delicate, a treat to see!

Thanks Becky, Jackie and Ronnie! Ronnie, can't wait to see the new Brazilian MG flower!

Hey I got a double flower amongst the single flowers of the willow dianthus JMG. See below.

Ron, I spent a few hours unwinding vines of various containers that have different plants in them and have them isolated now so I can collect them and they won't be mixed up.

Joseph

OMG!!! http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5475640 Winner of the year!!!

OH! How lovely Joseph! That is too cool that you got a double bloom on the willow dianthus! This is a Japanese cultivar? I am always amazed at what is created. Interesting leaves and very unusual blooms. The blooms remind me a little of the higes, but yet different. Almost like a feathered or higed picotee shaped bloom, but where does that color come from???? Such a treat to see something so unusual! Thank you Joseph for sharing that cultivar with us! :-)

I found the double flower in the mass of single flowers of the willow dianthus JMG container. This JMG makes 3 flower forms, depending on presence of certain genes. I am not too conversant on the topic but am happy to learn. Thanks for the great comments on the photo. My jaw truly dropped when I walked by that container as I was watering the plants! LOL

Joseph

Ukigomo doesn't seem to be as big a flower maker as are some other JMGs, but I'm not complaining.

I like the red on this Dainagon!

Joseph, A beautiful dbl on the willow dianthus. The Ukigomo is a very
pretty blue. I like it more all the time.

Joseph . . .

I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E ! ! !

I really, really love this pink bloom
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5467915

They are all Magnificent ! ! !

Emma

Okay, who sneaked into my garden and planted these??

Very pretty Emma and Judith.

Thanks Emma, for your comments on spider mite. I was just enjoying your chocolates and greys, when we had to leave, so I have been bereft of much MG glory this year. I just saw the ensigns I sowed 4 days ago, are up, so just as well.

Here is one I absolutely loved, can't even remember where I got the seeds from. It seemed that it wasn't a good seed setter though...


Martin

Revclaus, is that MG all white? Very nice. My Flying Saucer is blooming this morning.

I haven't posted pics for a while. Here are a few from this morning.

Sunsmile Violet

A pure white, this was from the pack of seeds marked "Bearded White" from which I've also gotten a Hige that is white with pale pink at the center

And a side view of the white

First flowers on this one. I don't know the name

I really love the coloring on these

Side view

All the leaves on this MG, the one from the above pictures have leaves that are curled up at the edges.

Very nice blooms, momcat.

Such a variety of character among all the different white MGs posted here by

Revclaus - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=5480186 ,
Gofast - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=5481930 ,
Momcat - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=5482249

Can anyone ID them?

It would be fun to compare Ronnie's moonflower ( http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=5472547 ) to Revclaus' MG above, which looks kinda unusual for a I. nil or I. purpurea.

And then, there's Joseph's near white version of Akatsuki no Mai ( http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=5467915 ) - seems like there's no end to individuality among the whites and near-whites

am really enjoying this thread, All

Yup, Helen, Momcat's got quite a blue there. MC, the leaf that goes with your blue MG looks just like the leaves from some seeds Gourd sent me that she labeled I. nil "Blue Asagao Carries Willow Gene". I understand the flower that goes with these leaves is blue (Ron commented elsewhere that the luminosity of this blue makes it worthwhile to to cross with other blues), but small. What size is the blue you're showing here?

Among Gourd's seeds, there was a chance that the non-fertile willow/dianthus flower would show up, evidenced by very narrow leaves, but Gourd, if you're reading this, that one didn't appear.

I'm going into this for the benefit of Newbies. The willow/dianthus flower is exquisite, but doesn't make seed pods. In order to perpetuate it, you have to swish pollen from the willow/dianthus flower upon the pistil of the more ordinary-looking fertile siblings' flowers, and then sow seed from the fertile siblings and hope to see both kinds appear in the next generation to repeat the process. (See sticky / MUTABILITY / paragraph 2) (Also, see sticky / POLLINATION)

Be sure to make a cup of coffee or tea before settling down to read the above - very engrossing.

Karen

Nice flowers Momcat!!!

Mine isn't all white, it has pink around the throat. It might be an Amomuraskizyouhatensibori without the purple variation. That's blooming too and it has the pink around the throat. Here's a side view of the white one.

I also have a pure white Pearly Gates.

Lovely blooms Martin, Deb and Judith.

Pres Bush, thanks A. I love this one.

Isdatatone, thanks Ronnie. I love the split petals

I am pretty sure my friend told me these were Flying Saucer seeds. They are square?

HI Karen,

My blue flowers are approx 3" across. They were some seeds I got from Tommy (Hillbillygran), that were labelled Demono mutant strain. I love the flowers on this, but I do wish it would climb more. I have a few vines that are climbing the trellis, but most of them just trail on the ground. I moved it up onto a chair in the backyard, and it is trailing on the ground.

Deb

OOHH Jackie I love this one http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5484434 How cool is that!!!

Judith, Jackie, Merci, and Deb - What a glorious sight of blooms!

Merci- Those "square" box shaped blooms are too crazy! Pretty neat! :-) Where did you get your seeds? If from a commercial seed company, which one?

LiliMerci - Is the plant consistently producing square blooms like this one here
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5484434
if so,please put a few aside for me...

TTY,...

Ron

Becky, a (former) friend of mine gave me the seeds to this MG. She told me it was Flying Saucer. I got a few to germinate and put them in the ground but they didn't do much. I thought may be the deer ate them. Are they attractive to deer? So far, I don't think they've eaten any of my MG.

Ron, this is my first bloom on this plant. The vine is actually very short right now. I have a few other MG growing in this area. All the other MG have already fallen off, so currently this is the one bloom that is open. This is a dumb question, but how will this affect pollination and seed(s) production for this bloom. Sorry, I never did well with Science in school.

Pretty cool blooms Judith, Jackie, Deb and Lili!!

Thanks Helenahkh.

Momcat, thanks for answering. It looks like you might have the fertile MG of a system that carries for that willow/dianthus MG, which is not fertile. These flowers have the same propagation technique that Ronnie's does here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/floramanana/all/ - which is that pollen from the non-fertile fancy MG is swished upon the pistil of the fertile, more ordinary appearing MG. Next, seed is sown from that generation, and the gardener hopes to see both kinds of flower with which to repeat the process.

I gave the link to Atenkley's explanation in this post - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=5482541 - in paragraph 3.

These are such incredible flowers - I hope everyone checks out Atenkley's links to see how exciting they are.

Thanks Ronnie, Becky and Helena.

Here is Ipomoea parasitica, lovely small blue flowers with yellow and white tubes.

Joseph

Here is the sacred sepal shot. Wouldn't it be spectacular to see all those buds open at the same time?!