Morning Glories: Blooms Revisited, 1 by bluespiral

bluespiral wrote:
Gerris2's Star of India (via PamSue) - This one's a keeper. I loved the way the neighboring Shasta daisy echoed the white of SOI's picotee edge, while at the same time contrasting with SOI's blue with its gold center. Blue is echoed from SOI's limb to the nearby Platycodon, after which Kikyou-shaped MGs are named. Platycodon, also known as the Chinese Bell Flower, originally was grown in Asia for its medicinal attributes.

But back to Star of India - out of all the MGs I grew in 2007, this one was the earliest to bloom, which is nice to know for folks with short growing seasons in the north - worth crossing at least for that quality to come up with more shorter-season MGs. Gourd has been making some interesting crosses with SOI.