Morning Glories 2009 #03

We came from here
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/983634

My flaked from last summer, white with very light pink eye

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really nice.... I am glad I get to see your posts..

A couple from this morning- first bloom from Hatsu Arashi. There's a seedling of Canary Vine http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/868/ in front of it, I'm hoping they will have some blooms at the same time.

Darling little Dwarf Picotee Pink. I love the heavily variegated leaves on this one.

I found this slug eating one of my potted JMGs yesterday. I was so mad! Salt is my new best friend. :-}

Cathy

Cathy - Your blooms look GREAT!!! This one here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=6586376 looks like Pink "Sun Smiles". If you got the seed from me, then it most definitely is. It is also more of a mounding MG instead of a climber. :-) Beautiful!!!

I detest those slugs and bugs too! LOL! Only caterpillars are allowed in my garden! LOL!

Jackie - Love your flaked bloom. I am becoming a big fan of Purple and Pink Flaked I. purpurea. Grown in a pot ... nothing can rival them! :-)

I was up until 1 o'clcok with a flashlight picking off snails and slugs.. I have really good garden clogs and I was crunching like crazy.. I was so mad too.. I thought I had sprayed an ammonia combo mix, but I guess you have to keep spraying it.. One had eaten almost a whole leaf off of one of my growouts ...one thing I did notice is that where ever I had put down the flaked cedar animal bedding type ( walmart 8.95) there were no bugs of anykind. Going back to get more today after work. I did get to see some humongous nitecrawler activity with my flashlight and the owls were out too..
cathy, I love that pink it is so cute..

Sorry to hear about your snail infestation, Debra. I hope you irradicate those buggers!

I, too, am a night walker. Love to do the flashlight walkabouts late at night around my garden. I see things at night that I would never see during the daylight hours. A whole nother world in the garden at dark! :-)

a good idea is to plant things they love to eat in a special dampish place then you'll know where to find them.... beer traps work too... but they keep comming....but best is i've found is to just give in and protect the plants individually.... water is an excellent barrier.... and copper of course....

if it's slugs in the soil... nemaslug is excellent at reducing numbers right down....

Debra, Not a good pic I sent but I'm limited now. A whole new problem for me sending pics. Now my computer doesn't recognize my stick mule/flash drive
with all my pics from the last 3 yrs.
Just needed to start a new #rd thread since # 2 was getting too long.
Becky, dissapointed in all my flaked blooms from Carnival de Venezia, tiny
less than 2 inches and stripes, spatters or flakes too small to even be seen.
Lovely blooms Cathy.

Becky, that Dwarf Picotee Pink http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=6586376 came from Mountain Meadow Seeds, although you did send me some dark pink picotee seeds that did really well. I just went back and found a pic from April- here it is:

Debra, I can just hear you crunching snail shells with your clogs... hee hee! I never wear shoes when I'm in the yard, so when I occasionally step on a slug, it really grosses me out! Of course it's always one of those 2" long giant slugs... ewww.

Thanks patootie, I just love racing outside to see what has opened up each morning! These were this morning's surprise, 2 side by side gorgeous pale lavender flaked blooms.

The one in front was really delicate looking, I could have stared at it all day....

Cathy

Love the lavender flaked Cathy. Pretty, soft color.

Ipomoea nil Sunsmiles Hot Rose

I started two of these plants this winter; the blooms of the other one are more brownish. I like this one better. Morning Glories are still in the house right now; I'll put them out about mid-June.

Joanne

beautiful all of them thanks, I needed that..

Gorgeous color Joanne

lovely blooms Cathy and Joanne... i've got the day off and it's so sunny... mine are going in the ground today :-)

here's Blue silk, seeds off Joseph... i absolutey love this one...

and Dianagon

Colin

i nearly forgot these came as yamamura shogaku but it doesn't match the pic, perhaps a cross... really nice color and flowersize :-)

Colin, the Blue Silk is breath-taking! Simply gorgeous.

Gorgeous blooms Colin.

Oh my goodness!!! I have 5 header stems up on my pandurata, the
original stem and 4 new ones. I have 6 acres so it can spread all it wants to.
Thought I would lose it to the record amt of rain for May, 13 inches plus, the 2nd highest amt ever recorded since the 1800's when they started keeping records.
Thats with the last 10 days being absolutely dry. The ground still so saturated here
that the slightest shower will leave big pools of water here in the yard and the
horse pasture flooded again.

we have had similar weather here Karen... and i so wish i had 6 acres to play with :-)

this is the first flower on gold leaves plum dots kikyo... looking a bit tatty, the flower isn't very kikyo shaped, and the background is deffinately creamy yellow... the camera flash has bleached out the background... i'll try it without flash for the next bloom...

and this is my trailing vine... it's quite a small plant at the moment and the flowers hang downwards.... maybe it would be better displayed in a basket....

the color is quite true in the picture and the faded edge is a bluish grey rather than white....

here's akatsuki no murasaki... the camera has exagerated those markings as the flower looks a plainer very dark purple to the eye...

All gorgeous blooms Colin. I love the first one,strange shape and all with the
plum dots.

Colin - WOW! What a lovely showcase of blooms! :-)

I was drooling over the photos in this thread while using my BlackBerry phone while on travel last week. They look so much better on the large monitor! Good growing!

I have a couple that have flowered up for me, from the winter crop I transplanted to outdoors life.

Here is another one I got from seed trader Xiong, a nice purpurea mix.

Joseph

This one, Hanaba, I like very much. The leaves are getting larger, and the flower color and split corolla traits are what grab me. I need to sneek it outdoors soon. Unfortunately the spider mites love it too.

Here is one I got from Gourd, showing no signs of making reverse tubes but I am enjoying it nevertheless. I like the intense pink-red evenly distributed color of this Chinese MG.

Finally, the grey-white margined JMG I got from Karen-Bluespiral who got it from Emma is still flowering like crazy. I wish it made seeds, haven't gotten a single one since it started flowering in mid-winter indoors.

Joseph

Colin - You blooms on all of your vines are just beautiful! You certainly have some desirable vines! Keep up the great job of sow and growing those darlings!

Joseph - Nice show of blooms from you as well! Nothing like a bloom to greet you in the morning!

I have to be at my summer job at 7:30 am, so I don't know how I am going get outside to hand-pollinate and photograph my blooms during the weekdays. I will get home around 1 pm, but by then all the flowers are wilted. :-( The job is only for 5 weeks though, so ... I hope to have a new "crop" of JMGs and MGs growing by then! :-) Though I must admit, mine are still going strong out in the garden. The inside, potted vines are in seed producing mode and haven't seen a bloom for over a week. Growth has slowed way down, too, so they are on their way out ...

Beautiful blooms Joseph. The purpurea Is a great color
I've got one blooming, a dropped seed near the ghouse gate. Not as
pretty as your bloom but just glad to have a bloom of any kind. lol

Jackie - Wow! Doesn't hardly look like an I. purpurea to me. Very pretty blooms on your volunteer vine! :-)

Thanks Becky.

awsome photos everyone.. keep them coming.. I only have one bloom outside.. it is my pink from last year the first to show ofcourse.. God Bless you all.
Debra

a few blooms

first Dracula

a full flowered BAW