It was a beautiful morning(cool for a change)on Sunday. I happened to go out on the deck and noticed my morning glories were looking pretty darn good.
Lots of blooms! As their name suggests they bloom in the morning and close up later in the day. There are over 1,000 varieties of morning glory and they are related to the sweet potato. The family is Concolvulaceae.
Can you see the pollen grains on the blooms below?
Here is the bee leaving the bloom above.
I haven't planted morning glories here in years since they just reseed themselves now and come back each Spring season.
I made a brief video below touring the vines. No narration to ruin it but it was a nice quiet morning and the birds were singing. Take a look....
Do you plant flowers? Morning Glories perhaps? They are really a low maintenance plant in my opinion except the vines will take over all your garden if you let them. ;-)
Sluggy
Your morning glories are gorgeous. Mine have not fared so well. Pa. seed must not like Alabama!
ReplyDeleteMust be not enough sun, soil drainage or not enough water.....or you said, "Bless Your Heart" too much to them. -)
DeleteThey are beautiful! I used to have 4 o’clock and they were also beautiful.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of 4 o'clocks....would that be another term for Moon flowers?
DeleteThey are a pretty morning site. I just have a few planters but enjoy them.
ReplyDeleteI don't do anything anymore to encourage them. They just spring up now annually. I don't have much of a green thumb btw.
DeleteWhat a beautiful sight in your yard. I have never had morning glories.
ReplyDeleteI've had them since the '80s when I first planted them at our first house. 8-)
DeleteHeavenly Blue Morning Glories are my favorite flower ever. They were also one of the first flower I ever grew as a child. When we lived in the southwest, I had them cascading over our privacy fence--so nice to go out to the pool in the morning with a cup of coffee and watch them open. The Heavenly Blue Morning Glories stayed open all day. Sadly, I can't get them to grow here in the PNW. We have wild morning glories, which are white, (look like a small moonflower) and I did get some tri colored ones to grow in the same pot as my thumbergenia--actually, the packet SAID they were Heavenly Blue, but, so far, every color BUT, and, they don't stay open all day. I get, perhaps, 3 blooms/day.
ReplyDeleteI also love Moonflower--LOVED to see that open as the sun set by the pool. Fun fat: The Morning Glory is poisonous, and the seed is a powerful hallucinogenic. BUT...bees can make honey from the nectar of these poisonous flowers, and it is perfectly safe for humans.
Yes, the seeds are what indigenous peoples used as a natural form of LSD to have visions. My dogs love the seeds too. lol
DeleteI have lots of foliage, but not near as many blooms. Maybe I need chicken wire for better support. Yours are really exceptional. You might enjoy a moon flower because they bloom at night.
ReplyDeleteI've heard of white Moon flowers but have never seen them.
Deletenext spring plant moon flowers along with your morning glories and you will have blooms all day long
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