Why cant I found MG with dots and aurantia

Why cant I found any advertisement for selling dotted MG on Ebay, I have search for weeks I have only seen them on DG but not for sale :o( And on Japanese homepage I cant buy, I can not understand Japanese character. How can all on DG buy from Japan?
I also want to buy seeds to Ipomoea hederifolia 'Aurantia'!!
These two kind, nil with dots and aurantia Is on my wishlist for 2009, otherwise I have a lot of seed, of other kinds I shall grow this year too.

I also found seeds to Convolvulus cabtabrucys I am committed to buy, is anybody familiar with this kind?

Hope for many answer Sylvia

Dear Sylvia, what a beautiful name. The speckled mg you are probably talking about doesn't make very many seeds, and is therefore very expensive.
The price for those is 7E to 8E for 3 to 5 seeds. If that doesn't matter to you, thenyou should go to Ebay, home and garden-morning glory seeds and set it for favorite seller jmglvr. Her name is Emma, and she is a treasure. You can send a message to her from Ebay. She is the absolutely the most trustworthy and honest
mg seed seller on ebay. You cannot go wrong with her. She hardly ever posts anything here any more. So go find her on Ebay, make her a favorite seller.
Be sure to tell her what color the speckles are. I think she may have about 3 kinds. I hope this helps in your quest. Please update me on your progress later.

One reason, it seems like we can get Japanese seeds and you cant, is that we used to have an American , in Japan, collecting and selling Japanese MG seeds on ebay. His name was Komeri, but he hasn't sold seeds on ebay for a year time now.

Japanese seeds are very expensive. That is why you only get 3, or 5 , or 10 seeds. And their standards offend Americans. Here, if you put a picture on the seed pack, showing a bright red, all the seeds must produce that color. THAT IS THE LAW.

In Japan, they sell seeds by GROUP, with the picture of the best flower of the group on the seed pack, and no guarantees that you will get one that color. If the emphasis of the group is the foliage, or the strength of the vine, then the color of the flower is less important to them. If you buy just a few seeds, you probably won't get the same color you truely wanted most. And the seeds are very expensive, and that is a Japanese cultural thing.

Remember Japan is an Island, and all of them are salesmen of some kind. Please up date me in a few weeks and let me know if this helps.
Frank

Dear Frank, thanks beautiful name you too, My husbands name is Frank, is´nt it funny :o)
Thanks a lot for your good answer, I have Emma on my favouritesellers already, Emma and I have share seed with each other for a couple of years. But I don´t want to beg these speckled from any, as I know they are very expensive and I dont have such exclusive seeds in change, therefor I want to buy som. But not from Japan then, because of your explain, if I don´t know what I´ve got when I buy 5 seeds. I have so littlespace to grow MG because that I have so many kind to try every year, I sow a least 10 to 20 every year, and only have a little space on my porch to grow them. They dont grow outside here even during the summer because it´s to cold for Ipomoea nil. Otherwise I could have a lot because our garden is big. It is the LAW here in Sweden to if it is a picture on the flower the seeds shall be as the picture show, otherwise I can complain and get my money back or new seeds. Well I have to look closer on Ebay, many times a week, perhaps they will come soon there for me to buy.
All the best to you Sylvia

jmglvr on ebay has a sale on fujishibori (speckled) at the moment Sylvia!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FUJISHIBORI-Japanese-Morning-Glory-Seeds-V-RARE-SALE_W0QQitemZ380096341141QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item380096341141&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
Colin

p.s. Convolvulus cantabricus looks like a lovely plant sylvia...

Colin
thanks for the link, I have not search for japanes MG, so Emmas auction have not shows on my search, so thank, now I have lay a bid, hope I win. She did only have two portion of this spreckled seeds.

Yes the convolvulus looks nice.

Sylvia

hi Sylvia... i found another supplier (in case you didn't win)
http://www.onaleeseeds.com/

Colin

Thanks Colin I have bought from Onalee earlier, but this time I win Emmas auction. So now I will grow spreckled - but I will say MG with dots this year, next year I hope to have 2 colors, but I take 1 step a the time :o)
I shall grow dracula, hederifolior, Kikyo and other, Kikyo was not so big, have grow in my kitchenwindow och flower all winter long. Still alive even that it is a true annual. But it have not produce any pollen in the cold and no seeds because of that, so I think it survive because of that.
Perhaps I will have the same plant with a good rootstock produce more flower than ever this summer.
Took this picture below today from my other one, no name, have not could identificate yet. I thought first it was dracula, look at the funny flower, probably because of dark, cold winter, I have a lot of flower from this plant they looks different for every single flower. also in my kitchenwindow
lol
Sylvia

The same plant as above

this one too.

But when I think now; I think a had mix up this picture with Ipo nil Kikyo. So this is from my other pot with spotted Kikyo Red I think

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Is´nt they lovely

More of the same

Very pretty blooms Sylvia.

Sylvia ... WOW that's a lovley plant.... i wish it was in my kitchen window :-)

Sylvia - That is a very special vine! Love the variety of the blooms! What a great winter vine! :-)

Thanks patootie and Colin

Yes Becky it is. It the the one you tell me, had stop produce pollen because of the winter. Seeds from Emma, she don´t remember it, perhaps an cross between any. But it´s lovely, I hope it survive during spring and summer and start produce pollen, and seeds.
There is flower on it almost every day. It´s a real surviver.
Sylvia

Sylvia the pictures you share are beautiful. I am enjoying going through all the old threads. I'm going to add Emma to my favourite sellers, too. Thank you to everyone for the posts.

Warmly,
Julie

Hi Julie yes they are lovely and still flower in this middle of the winther. Still no pollen and still no seeds. But it seems like it will survive and wait for spring to start grow and flower again.
Yesterday I had 4 flowers on it. It´s nice when it snow outside and temperature below zero. It is only 2 steem in the pot. And many leaf have fallen. But it flower one by one the whole time. :o)