morning glory experiment

[Ceijay]

I really like accent plants a lot so I started off experimenting with a few morning glory and this one bloomed for the first time today. Not really sure what I'm doing but morning glory can do some really weird stuff and grow really aggressively so maybe I can figure out something cool.

Planted in pine bark potted in a brick.

 

[just.wing.it]

I love MG's. The darker indigo colors are my favorite.

 

[Ceijay]

These are the dark colored ones that you may be talking about, almost black in fact. However all of the morning glory I have in pots will only bloom pink flowers. It's because my soil is acidic but I dunno what I should do to make it more basic.

 

[just.wing.it]

I love MG's. The darker indigo colors are my favorite.

These are the indigo ones of which I speak. From my from yard last spring. One flash pic, one no flash.

 

[just.wing.it]

 

[just.wing.it]

this was the only oddball on the whole vine. Cool huh!

 

[carp]

Did you know that Sweet Potato is a relative of Morning Glory?

 

[Ceijay]

These are the indigo ones of which I speak. From my from yard last spring. One flash pic, one no flash. View attachment 83983 View attachment 83981

Yeah I'm pretty sure we have the same kind of MG. I just dunno how to change them back lol.

Did you know that Sweet Potato is a relative of Morning Glory?

I did not know that. I do however have a sweet potato growing in my kitchen window and an ornamental outside. They are very very popular down here.

 

[sorce]

I think you should make more with different sticks!

Interesting sticks.

Sorce

 

[Ceijay]

I think you should make more with different sticks!

Interesting sticks.

Sorce

I dunno what you mean. You mean the stick the vine is growing up?

 

[sorce]

Yeah! Or you could use wire and make funky designs.

Sorce

 

[Ceijay]

Yeah! Or you could use wire and make funky designs.

Sorce

Hey that's actually a really good idea! I will try this.

I had eventually planned on building a dead tree with pottery clay and after it's finished I could stick it in a pot and grow MG on it and try to make it mimic tree leaves. Did that idea make sense?

Anyway morning glory are really fun to play with and like I said they are super weird sometimes. The only problem is that they are annuals so I gotta make sure it makes a seed so I don't run out.

 

[sorce]

That makes sense!

I didn't know they were annuals.

I'll grab a vine or 2 every now and then and they never make it.

Love em!

Sorce

 

[M. Frary]

Hey that's actually a really good idea! I will try this.

I had eventually planned on building a dead tree with pottery clay and after it's finished I could stick it in a pot and grow MG on it and try to make it mimic tree leaves. Did that idea make sense?

Anyway morning glory are really fun to play with and like I said they are super weird sometimes. The only problem is that they are annuals so I gotta make sure it makes a seed so I don't run out.

Like topiary?

 

[Geo]

Here are some that grew for me this spring.

 

[Ceijay]

Like topiary?

No not like a topiary.

So this is where I got the idea. A girl in my fiance's pottery class gave him this and he brought it home. It's suppose to be a jewelry holder which is something that girls use to hold ring and necklaces on. Anyway, I wanna copy the idea of a dead tree made from stoneware and then run MG vines up the trunk and then the MG leaves would make the tree canopy.



I would probably not glaze the one I wanna make and I'd probably lose that base slab also so i can partially bury the bottom and make it look real.

I dunno it may turn out looking really stupid too. In a way it's kinda like what @sorce was suggesting with using a more interesting stick. So I guess if it ends up underwhelming i can just blame him

 

[Ceijay]

Here are some that grew for me this spring.

Im not seeing an image on your post.

That makes sense!

I didn't know they were annuals.

I'll grab a vine or 2 every now and then and they never make it.

Love em!

Sorce

The next time you see a vine look for see pods on it. Growing them from a seed would be much better than transplanting one. I can grow them year round here you just have to bring them inside and give them a light in the winter. Once you establish a small patch of the stuff they won't need your help coming back every year.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Morning Glories are a cool family of plants. Most are perennial in a frost free setting. Ipomoea purpurea is the one you have here, the common morning glory. There are many, many species, including some that are more tree like, with woody stems. Turbina corymbosa `ololiuhqui' is a bit more woody, and a long lived tropical perennial, white flowers and a favorite of Mayan shamans for use in divination rituals. There are some African species that can form a massive caudex. Some species are edible, some are not, don't eat any of the African species without double checking whether they are poisonous or not.

The sweet potato is Ipomoea batatas - and its growth habit is pretty similar to common morning glory, except it doesn't climb as much, tends to cascade, and it has bigger leaves. Cultivars that don't produce the large edible tubers (potatoes) with colorful leaves are common in landscape nurseries, sold for leaf color and texture for container plantings.

.............I had eventually planned on building a dead tree with pottery clay and after it's finished I could stick it in a pot and grow MG on it and try to make it mimic tree leaves. Did that idea make sense?

You have to make a dead tree? I got plenty you can use, come on by. The ones on top of the compost heap should still be pretty good. Just hit a dead tree with wood hardener, it should be good for a decade in a pot.

 

[Geo]

http://www.delange.org/YucaVine/YucaVine.htm

Check this one out. Merremia aurea.

 

[Geo]

Ipomoea batatas :Ah yes. Sweet Potato Pie. We made one yesterday from our own crop.AbFab!!
Great ground cover for the larger garden or under fruit trees,etc. Pretty MG like mauve flowers too.