Morning Glories 2008 #23

I had this little Sydny (SP?) bloom today. It looked better in person than on pic.

Helena - The little Blue flower you posted above is an
Ipomoea purpurea

There is an entry in the PlantFiles,but due to some 'confusion' this purpurea is currently entered as a 'hybrid'
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/70836/
and I therefore rarely refer to it...


TTY,...


Ron

My glories are still blooming too! I love it! ;) I wrote a poem in 1991 about the coming of winter and morning glories.. I shall have to post it sometime.. Debra

Debra - The different leaf shapes are related to how the individual species and subtaxa adapt to the heat and sunlight...

The solid shapes are mostly seen in the cooler regions,while the very dissected leaves are most usually seen in the hotter zones with intense sunlight...

The dissected leaves allow the plants to breathe easier and to dissipate heat easier than the solid leaves...in those species that have used that particular adaptive mechanism (dissected leaves) to adapt to the heat...some tropical species have large heart shaped leaves because they have evolved different metabolic mechanisms for adapting to the heat...

I happen to like the very dissected leaves because the dissected shape allows the vine to climb up onto other plants and share the sunlight better because the light can get through the dissected or multi-lobed leaves more so than it can shine through completely solid leaves...


Hope that helps to partially answer your previous question...


TTY,...


Ron


P.S. - Liked your poem...

Dany and Helena - Your blooms are just beautiful! I love all the blue! :-) Cool patterns on some of these blooms! :-)

The temps are really dipping low tonight into the 40's, so don't know if that will finish off my vines or if they will survive. I know most nils don't like the temps to get under 60 degrees. No blooms today because it was cool last night too, but it is supposed to start warming up tomorrow and will back up in the high 70's and low 80's the rest of the week. I have to admit that I am enjoying the cooler temps! It's been a hot year! I wish it would go from sweltering to cooler and then to cold. It just jumps from hot to cold which probably shocks all my plants. Luckily, no frost. This is early that we are getting such cold temps. Middle to late November is usual for this kind of lows, so not sure if we are going to get a cold Winter here in south Florida this year ...

I managed to take some photos of some more of my vines. We've had more rain and I am seeing rust on most of the vines now. :-( So these vines may not survive long enough to produce ripe seeds with the fungus attacking them and the colder temps. But I have my fingers crossed!

This is an unusual shaped Moonflower Bloom. I've been getting quite a few blooms on the arbor the past week. Really beautiful blooms!

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These blooms about knocked me over the other day when I saw them. This vine is Hanafubuki. It is blooming again from the bottom of the vine,

I love my Blue Star vine! Such large, lovely pale blue blooms!

Unknown Chocolate Blizzard Blooms. I marked the vine with a bright orange piece of plastic drinking straw in the hopes that it will produce seeds before we get any frost temps that may kill my vines. I want seeds so badly from this one!

Some of the Chocolate Blizzard blooms have been really pale colored like this one. All from the same vine.

This crossed seed/vine from Antoinette is just outstanding! The blooms are almost as large as Moonflower blooms! This is another recent bloom from Heian Umi X Rose Silk.

Arlan's Q0426 vine blooming. "Dragon Claw Wind Bell Jishi Botan".

Got a shot of a bumble bee going into one of the Blue Star blooms! The bees love this vine!

So far all the vines that I have grown from crossing with my Lady Yaguruma's Kaleidoscope have produced long vines with lots of blooms. Here is one of those vines that was crossed with Kohkan. Again, very little pollen production in these blooms, so I have been having to cross with other cultivars that are in bloom.

This is a better angle of the length of this vine. Lots of blooms every day, which seems to be a trait of Yaguruma vines! I love it!

And to throw out something a little different. This is the bird feeder with a Blue Jay and a Woodpecker enjoying breakfast together. The mass of vines in the background are Passiflora vines! They form a thick wall along the privacy fence. The vines are blooming now since it is Fall. I am a real freak for vines! lol

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wow , love those blooms.. ahhh and the bird pics! hey, went to northeastern kansas to meet another DG'r and recieved some native wild MGs red? seeds, also some cherokee MGs ( she called them) I will plant them and see how they look .. My morning Glories are dead.... *sniff* except for the ones in my basement nursery, blooming! Still, the yard looked erie this am.. when the dogs' water bowl is solid, I know it froze, and it was.. had to put fresh water in the birdbath.. will start MG seeds in late january for the out doors, but again will have them in planters.. only this time I will keep each kind separate.. I will loop up all my vines as I do every Year and Hang them on the fence around the yard where they wil drop their ripe seeds and come back next year.. the alley where I planted MGs is going to be awsome next year.. the Mgs in the trees looked really cool with blooms way high in the sky.. I can't stand the thought of winter.. *sigh* Oh, I have had the white moonflower for three years, but this year I put the cypress vine there instead.. I love them, but just had to see if the cypress vine would grow lush and mix with the other vines on thenorth fence.. and they did;) trying the little tiny MGs next Spring, along with some other colours of the mounding ground glorys..have a great rest of the week! debra

Debra I'm member of the * sniffer * club too, no more bloom on the MG vine , they are dry .
You are in the starting block early for the next season , we have time to build and rebuild the garden in our meaning .

Becky - always first class pics ,
Heina Umi X Rose Silk and your Blue Blizzard will produce seeds ?
The Q0426 is very charming too .

Dany - I do have some pods on Heian Umi X Rose Silk, but not sure about Blue Blizzard yet. None of my seedpods are ripe yet ... far from it! Hopefully we won't get an unespected frost. If so, I hope I get some warning so I can pull them up and put them in water to finish ripening them. I just don't have many seed pods on any of my vines this grow-out. This was a shorter time frame for a grow-out because of the season.

It was really cold last night. Low 40's, so no blooms today at all. But it is supposed to start warming up for the rest of the week! Maybe more blooms then. :-) These vines never got that long or lush because it is cooling down and everything is noting the season change here.

Beautiful Becky, I love the chocolate blizzard!! Of course I love the birds too!

warm enuff today for blooms, but Jack already had his way with the killing of my pretties.. dang it.. will just drool over the pics here for a few months now.. *sigh*

Gorgeous blooms Becky. Impossible to pick a favorite.

No MG blooms whatsoever this morning. But many of my other flowering plants are in full bloom. My little female hummingbird is back. She stayed here until April last year, so I hope she stays around that long this winter, too. (I've been seeing a young male coming around the feeder and plants, too.) These sweet little birds love the nectar of my MGs. Am hoping it warms up enough for my vines to resume blooming. The colder evening temps hasn't seemed to harm the vines yet. It's just keeping them from blooming right now. Come on warm temps!!! :-)

I do love the cool weather and it's nice not to have to run the A/C! ;-)

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Had a few blooms this morning, including this one.

love the hummer , becky,,,, gosh pretty flower there gardenpom..

That's a nice photo GP!!

GP - Awesome MG photo! Are you getting any hummers up there in Melbourne? I'm waiting for the finches to return! I love them, too! :-) Y'all know me ... besides having an obession for vines, I garden for butterflies and birds! :-)

Here's the little female hummer perched nearby watching the yard. She doesn't like sharing the yard with other hummers. These little birdies are so territorial! lol The hummer pictures are taken from inside my screen porch. If I get too close to her, she zips off!

My I. purpurea vine is on the other side of the back yard and I've forgotten to photograph the flowers on it. LOL! It has been blooming despite the cold weather! HA! I need to check it out tomorrow ... I was looking it over this past Saturday and heard the humming sound and looked up and there was the hummer hovering about 2 ft. away from me sipping from the Cross Vine and Mexican Flame Vine blooms that are growing all over the fence in that area. Never fails ... camera is always inside ...

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Thanks everyone. Becky, I had a female hummer here recently, she may come every day , but my Firebush is huge and sometimes I don't see her.

L@@K DG today's articles text from Jan Recchio

great hummer pic, Becky! Gardenpom, try early morning, thats when I see the most here.
:D

gardenpom - My Firespike bushes are quite large, too! I have to prune them several times a year!

Dany - I did read Jan's article about her hummers! Great story! :-)

Darren - Very cool photo of your hummer! What's growing in the hanging basket? I agree. I see my hummers in the early morning and late afternoon before the sun goes down.

I am not seeing any seed pods on my Blue Blizzard vine. :-( Which is a drag ...

Here is a photo I took tonight of a BB flower after the color faded. It stayed open for two days as did some others because it got so cold. :-) Never thought I'd see a MG bloom stay open for two days! :-) :-) :-)

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gorgeous!

Becky, those were morning glory seedlings from Spring and another type of flower that did not make it due to it being too shady a corner~ the MGs are great though, luckily. Heres a shot when the flowers were not very heavy but the vines were in full strength.I tied them with hemp and trash ties to get the 2 planters plus 2 plants from the ground into that home made bamboo/hempcord trellis monstosity...I have to duck under it every day :) now but it look great out the kitchen window...
:Darren

Debra - Thanks!

Darren - WOW! I love your monstrosity and the vines look awesome! You probably get many different species of Hummingbirds? I just get Ruby Throat Hummers. I been seeing 2 in my yard lately. I am thinking they are mother bird and juvenile bird.

Not much blooming with these cooler temps and all the rain. I'm over the rain ...

I did have about 4-5 Moonflowers blooming tonight though. They don't seem to be phased by the cooler temps... Much to my delight! I am just enjoying whatever blooms are able to manifest themselves with these crazy temperatures lately! Here are 2 Moonflowers blooming next to each other. :-)

Becky, lovely blooms. Pretty yellow star that I hadn't noticed before.
I'm going to grow a few of these next yr, really nice.

Thanks, Jackie! I need to put my hand up for comparison so you can see just how large those blooms are. And you know how big the seeds are! It has a very nice fragrance too. I can't quite describe it. I bet one or more of the perfume companies use it in their products. The scent is most unique. :-)

The Moonflower is indeed a fragrant bloom.. I had it right around my bedroom window last year.. I only wish I had re-planted this year.. but there is always next year! ;)

Darren: Love your mexican petunias in the back ground! your curtain looks happy there too! I brought in my original MG vines in the little planters I started last winter.. they are leafing out.. need a good bug to bring inside to polllinate down here in the basement nursery.. any ideas?
tis is a pic of my kitchen window planter nursery last winter.. then I took them out and stuck them into the ground.. now they are thick and corded, and ready to winter over down here..:)

Debra - What an interesting idea on growing them! Unfortunately, my kitchen window looks out over my screened in porch, so no sunlight coming in there! But I like your idea a lot!

I would try hand-pollinating them to get seeds. Go to the sticky thread and you can read all about it. I do it the haphazardous way with a small fine paint brush by just lightly brushing the around the anthers and stigma to try to fertilize the blooms! :-) I also try to do cross-pollinating that way too. :-)

Thanks Becky, will post a pic of the platers now in a while.. Also, I am starting seeds that you sent me and will post their progress for you.. thanks so much! I got some MG bush seeds, and a MG tree on some trades.. am so excited for that! I thought the pollination had to be done bloom to bloom? I have been "tickling" the blooms on my tomatoes inside with each other , will that work? LOL

Debra, I LOVE YOU, i did not think of haging the little plastic bottles, as I was going to try your idea in sprig too. But on a flat surface~~My friend tease me about hanging thing all aroud the house (it make cleaing easier, and though i am lazy, i am clean, lol...) Hangin them is an Excellent Idea!!!!! BRAVO. My floors are covered with houseplants that are to heavy to hang, so space is a premium...this idea rocks!!!
Darren

Darren: I take any plastic ( clear) bottle and use two ways...
1. for outdoor planting in spring.. cut the BOTTOM almost off but leave a hinge for germintating sprouts.. holepunch two to four holes and hang with lid on spout side down.. in spring take seedlings in bottle and plant lid side down into the ground..
For hanging planters.. the same.. for planters, cut the top off.. hole punch.. string with cord.. I use a lighter and gently melt the top edges to a Petal form.. ( cut some strips at the top to melt into petals) voila! pretty planters! I use perlite and MG potting soil in those..