for 2009 spring !

Perhaps a GOOD idea for next spring !!!! LOL

Remember this summer !
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.co.jp%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dasagao%26ei%3Deuc-jp%26fr%3Dusf%26x%3D17%26y%3D15

for remembering last summer this address is better :
www.ctb.ne.jp/~shuten/asagao/asagao2/asagao2.htm

a giant purple puppy? Or a massive Red Lion?
:Darren

Dany thats really cool :-) and nice link

Dany,

I love the idea of the MG topiary!! What a fabulous idea! I agree with Colin, great links too!

Joseph

I read I don't know where an other record : a crossing of Ipomoea Purpurea how make the first bloom in 29 days . Unbelievable !

Here is an other construction but the vines are not healthy need a booster!

Congraulations good vine !

the cave is Gorgeous!! I want one of those!
:D

That reminds me of the mini cave of Tropicmans I went to this summer.. and I made a mini " Heart wall" last summer with mine..

I recall a year or two ago that Beth had a MG tunnel like that one in the photo above.

Debra, I try every year to train mine to make a plant trellis that deep and luxuriant. You are so lucky that was great!!!

The man with the dog , I thing if he use Ipomoea Purpurea he can take a giraffe !

LOL Dany, I agree!
Darren: I used the green floral waire that i showed on an earlier thread to make webs for my vines to travel over laong poles I had stuck in the ground on either side in that photo up there, it was heavy in the middle so it dipped, abd by the end of the summer it was a perfect heart shape.. the ones I draped on either side of my door was with the same wire strung from the porch rails to the gutters, and those were the ones I started inside last year in the window bottle planters.. i just stuck them into the ground and kept them watered, fed and trained.. I cliped about every other week to maintain the shape of the grow outs I had.. I kinda had a problem with the ones on the north fence, as I had the quamoclit and the chinese bean growing also with four kids of MGS.. it was fun to see who won what space..my goal was to completely block out the view of my neighbors yards and houses on each side since they are both in such disrepair..

LOL, Dany! You are probably right about the I. purpureas! LOL!

Love that MG tunnel! So cool!

Debra - your vines look like they will certainly cover up the view of your neighbors! That's another reason I grow them, too! :-)

hallelujah~I get two feet of passis, MGs, or honeysuckle to block out the one neon sign in seeing distance of my place and the same with neighbors, not caring about their domain! So Simple. LOL ~I get a kick out of how some plants can be called invasive when the neighbors yards can be more so~! giggle.
Cheers,
:D

On a roof somewhere in Japan.
How many gallon soil for such big plants - not forget to water !

I like their system for growing what appear to be morning glories. Obviously this gardener is not concerned with cross-pollination issues LOL.

Joseph

l'd love to be his neighbor...the watering system had to take forever to do, but so worth it~ provided the water is not like mine, full of hard chemicals like lime! I spent a lot of time this AM cleanig off scale and the buildup of over winter on bitrdbaths and things with runnnig water.
The Photo looks like Each plant only has a little bit of soil for each plant -almost hydroponics, with the size of the containers and the height of the vines?!

When I "undo" plants in the fall to bring inside, I found that the root system of the mgs I grew were not as long and deep as I worried about.. I can see those containers holding root systems okay enough.. my planters are open ended into the ground so the roots can go deeper as they grow... the photo above shows what I am planning to do in a mini version of it here in Kansas, my back yard.

i was wondering how much root space the vines required... i too want to grow them in rows... i like the idea of providing bottomless pots... cross polination wouldn't matter so much as i'm thinking it would be easier get to the vines and bag enough flowers for seeds.

I am growing some of my MG in 4l pots. I can't see any difference between them and the ones planted in my beds. It is just a whole lot easier to harvest the seeds now that they have stopped flowering. They are all close to my house - had some unwinding to do- and I can keep an eye on the seedpods without having to look for the twining vine between the other plants.
I used some water retaining gel in the pots, and that seemed to do the trick as I didn't have to water them more regularly than the ones in the garden beds. Just be careful not to put too much of the water retaining gel in your potting mix, as it can cause the plants to rot.

Elsa

That gel was a real work saver in Las Veags. I had to only water once in the moring instead of two times aday, I was always afraid to try it, lol~ live a little learn a lot! But it could rot some plants in some places if it did what it did for me~ Watching it test in a clear glass was crazy fun.
darren

I agree, Darren. Whenever the children are bored, I just give them a little to play with.... keeps them busy for quite a while. LOL!

Did anyboddy try a line of Sunflower or Castor bean as stake , support ?

Here is another idea !

If you mean Sunflower Stems, YES they grew to 5 feet here the ones left by previous owner and I used two of them last year for vines to climb on.
great like bamboo, but thicker and so, safer in the windy conditions we get...
:D

I use the water crystals and they do seem to help in my pots. I even added some into the ground in the bed I plant the MGs in.

Dany - What a fun thread! Love the photos of all the neat ways to have MGs climb and create something amazing! Lots of ideas for making MG garden art! :-)

I like that sunflower stake support! That's really a neat idea! I wonder where we could get something like that? I've not seen it around here locally. What is it called?

What a clever idea, Dany.... I can just imagine the MG putting on a display. I haven't seen anything even close to that here in SA, but I'm thinking, maybe I must ask good old Dad to make me something similar looking. Or what about shower heads? Of it fits over a stick/pole, surely DH can drill the holes on the outside a bit bigger to make it easier to get the string through?....

I hope, my garden one month later .

Dany - Is THAT a photo of YOUR garden??? WOW! I am truly impressed!

No it come from the University field - poor soil > bad green foliage !

its not bought~ just old tall stems from the BIG sunflowers....dried overwintered outdoors and clear sprayed for hold.
:D

I loved the tunnel I had one something like that for pole beans at my last house I am going to make two thing spring one for pole beans and one for morning glories they are easy to make I used rebar and the six by six inch squares sheets are four feet by eight feet galvanized to reinforce concrete and I used rebar to reinforce the sheets and to drive into the ground it only took a couple of hours to put together

This picture:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=6237114

This is a system of JMG grown right next to each other. The parent seed making plants are grown next to the pollen producing mutant plants. The mutants are partially sterile and only produce pollen. They grow them right next to each other to make cross pollination easier.

There are some varieties the Japanese grow that the specific color is a non-issue so they grow them all together and don`t care if they get cross pollinated.

Sometimes they grow a low pollen vine right next to a fully pollen fertile vine for the very purpose to get a specific result in the seeds just like we do with seedless watermelons. They need to bees to pollinate the flowers but the results are pre determined by the arrangement.

And sometimes they do grow plants in isolation for a purpose. Sometimes they do hand pollinate for a reason.

It all depends on what the gardener wants.

I started some in pots last month they are doing good cant wait to plant them outside they should just about ready to bloom when they go out