Morning Glory discovered this summer

You are very welcome Sarah . . .
Emma

All I can say is your vines seem to love your yard! They look lush, thick, and healthy! And the blooms are beautiful! Keep up with whatever you are doing to get such wonderful looking flowers! :-) And I'm thrilled to hear you have seed pods forming for your interesting NO ID blooms at the beginning of this thread! :-) :-) :-)

Fujishibori growing up an overhanging branch on my neighbor's spruce tree .

Same two flowers

Purple blossom Mt. Fuji Mix

This a volunteer from last year.

Becky,
I hadn't thought of a name for the flower in my original post, but after reading Ron's link to Dr. Yosheda, I call it Yosheda.
Sarah

Sarah,
You have some great MGs going.

Even your Fuji is 'different.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5528779
Curious if all of the blooms look like this with that fading into the Picotee Edge. Very Nice! Looks like Fuji Murasaki.

This one is Youjiro Mai Sugata
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5528793
and a pretty one!

I assume the variegated leaves go to a different MG and not the Youjiro?

Very nice and healthy plants.

Emma

Here is one of my Fuji Murasaki blooms from last year for comparison

Emma,
The big heart shaped leaves are the regular white Moonflowers. I mix whatever MG's I liked on large arbors. I would let some seed volunteer seedlings grow up with the newly bought seeds. Actually, I have probably been using "Japanese" MG seeds for quite a few years, but until I saw the e-bay seeds, I wasn't aware there were many types of them out there. I thought of the e-bay crosses as bona fide "Japanese". The first Japanese seeds I bought Hatsu Arashi were from "The Fragrant Path" in Nebraska. In one of the catalogs, the owner Ed Rasmussen suggested not being too "neat" about cleaning up the plants in fall and just letting seedlings grow out a bit the next year, to see what was really there. I think because of that, I have had a few volunteers that were different than the ones I actually planted. The one I posted was just running along the ground, when I noticed the first "brush stroke" type flower, so I brought a trellis over to it, and secured it into the ground, and clipped the vine up there with a hair clip. I use various sizes of them all the time, since they are so fast to attach with.
I don't know if the first one posted is unusual or not, but it's fun posting it, and having others on the forum want to grow it. When I first saw a Fujishibori I was astonished at the beauty of it! Thank heaven some of you are willing to go to the trouble and skill of breeding and stabilizing these these MG's, and at some point everyone gets to enjoy them and benefit from your efforts.
As you can see, my style is casual to say the least!:)
Sarah

Sarah, Love you're Apricot Candy and Plum Frost.

Sarah -

Just keep on doing what you are doing because you have some great winners.

What zone are you in?
I'm very surprised that you get I. nil volunteers.

In my warmer zone, I did get quite a few I. nil volunteers last year from an area that I didn't have as much time to spend with. Usually, I'm waiting at the vines with my hand out for seeds . . . lol
Most of those I dug up and gave to friends, and some I grew out myself.

Emma

Emma,
You called it right about the Mai Sugata. I remember getting a 5 seed free bonus from a vendor and it was called "Blue Named Random Mix". I don't remember if the other F. Murasaki's had the shading or not. That pic was taken a few weeks ago. There are some ready to open tomorrow, and I am going to look at them to see. I think it may have been temperature or dew, though. I live in zone 5 B. If the first one (Yosheda) I posted is a nil. then some of the seeds do stay viable on the ground in the winter. There were less than 10 little seedlings around Yosheda when I clipped it to the trellis. I have had Hatsu Arashi volunteer seedlings. I have never harvested or stored MG seeds. The only non nils. I am aware I am growing now are "Rebecca" (my sister's name.) I think it's a purpurea. I have had volunteer seed pink Mt. Fujis, with white wheel . It may depend on the location in the yard. Most places are pretty heavily mulched, too. I am interested in checking out the nil. volunteer seedlings next spring. Up until now, I have paid no attention to the details of the MG',and rattled along in a Matilda Junkbottom sort of way :) So far, in the years I have been growing the Mt. Fuji's, etc.(2006-2008) I have had 3-7 seedlings within a 3 foot area around the arbors. That's not many seedlings out of the number of actual flowers that bloom on the arbors.There are 3 containers with JMG's, but they don't get as big as the ones in the ground.
After re- reading my first few posts, (wince!) I am really glad I have learned a few things now about MGs!

Thanks, Patootie!
I started them indoors so they'd be a sure thing!

Sarah -

If you have seedlings now around your 'Yosheda' they could possible be from dropped seeds since it has been blooming this year. You can also tell if they are I. nil by the shape of the 'True Leaves' [I. purpurea will always have Heart Shaped Leaves]. If you do have any I. nils, you might want to gently dig those up and put in separate pots to grow over the winter. Start them in small pots and gradually move them to a gallon size pot.

Emma

Emma,
There were 6 of them. All the rain really got them going. I dug them up, and this is a photo of them. One has the nil. looking leaves. They are on the grow shelf with the cuttings.
Sarah

Actually, I guess there are 7 of them.

Way to go Sarah -

The sidewalk to the house is brick- it's very old ong, straight and flares out toward the porch. There are 4 arbors & Nepeta to soften the "green mile" feeling. The middle 2 arbors have 4 types of MG's or Moonvine. The one nearest the porch has a gate.

Here is the photo

When I link the morning glory tendrils from one arbor to the other on the south side-including the two with clematis - it has a nice tunnel effect.I didn't link them this year.

That's really pretty Sarah.

What a charming garden.
Really like what you did. Thanks for sharing your photos.

What is your spike plant?
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5533204

Emma

Lovely garden Sarah. It does invite one to come sit a spell. :-)

Emma,
The spikey plant in the middle of the 3 gold barberries is an upright narrow barberry called 'Helmonds Pillar."
Sarah

In case you meant the lavendar flowered spike behind the gazing ball, it's a Agastache "Blue Fortune." Thanks for the compliments, gals!

Yes, the Agastache "Blue Fortune" is the one I was asking about.
Very pretty!
I just got that one this year but won't see good blooms on it until next year. Hope mine is as pretty as yours.

Thanks for the info.

Emma

What a beautiful garden, so quaint and charming if I do say so!! LOL!! Very nice...

Thanks! The metal gazebo has the puniest Star of India MG's I have ever seen! I don't know what I did to them. They are in pots, and are really feeble. They can't even be seen in the picture. Oddly, both sides are like that. Other years, they have been covered in some kind of MG vines. Eventually, the mulched area will be covered with Vinca and Gold Creeping Jenny (I hope). At some point, the Korean Boxwood planted around the gazebo will become the "wall" around it (I hope):)

Many factors can cause a vine to be puny. Limited root space (due to a confined area to grow in or sharing the area with other plants that overtake the rooting area available), hard soil such as clay where the roots have a difficult time spreading, lack of nutrients and/or water, not enough sunlight, or even possibly a mutant gene.

little 5 petaled morning glory

Another view

Pretty blooms, quaintcharm! Is it the same vine as the first photo?

Thanks! No, this is a different vine in another part of the yard.

I like this one Sarah. Very nice