My Morning Glory adventures February 2010

Thanks! I always have one of the cups like that in the car.

I just love Morning Glorys they are one of my very favorite plants in this whole world.

I tried the blue one with the white edges that is sometimes double last year I got one lone flower on a six inch plant. I did something wrong. I stuck it under my japanese maple tree. The ones I put in the sun in front of my trellis died:(

How soon can you start them in the house before you can plant them outside?

I got more of the new blue ones this year and am hoping for better results.

Grandpa ott and heavenly blues do excellent.

I love the pics of the butterflies they are so beautiful

Here is one pic I took of a butterfly

Amos

Here is another one

Those are both beautiful clear shots!

Debra, I don't know how you OR Becky keep up with those names.

that pink flower works for me.

Amos - Beautiful blooms and butterflies! :-) Two of my favorite things! :-) Wonderful photos!

I would start your MGs about a month before planning to transplant them outdoors. BUT ... you can grow them indoors much longer if you have enough light and heat on them. I grew them indoors for the first time last year and enjoyed them for several months before transplanting them to the garden. :-)

Phyllis - LOL! I remember the names if I have grown them! LOL! But Debra's got me beat with all the names of all the different plants she has! I would not remember all of them like she does!

Amos, those are the most beautiful shots I have seen in a log time. Awsome! I love your oriental lilly. Is tha second shot on a butterfly bush? Gorgeous.
Tonight I started my tray of Kansas native wild lfowers. Blue sage .. compass plant, leather flower, clammy weed, blue verbena, pale coneflower, giant hyssop, Prairie petuinia ( ruella) , button bush, drummonds aster, snow on the mountain, blue star flower, ( wild laurentia),white wild indigo, blue wild phlox, culvers root, bindweed, and winecups. I will have an area that will not require much water for everything except the button bush. That will be so cool. My blue lobelia is up and so is the cardinalis and the meadow violets. I had a bad day at work, so rushed home to get the seeds out of the refridgerator where they have been stratified.
I also planted some kansas pandurata that was stratified. I made a tray of four different coleus starts.
I feel more productive tonight than I was today at work. feels good.
I start alot of seeds right now. I have morning glorys everywhere... If you have the room and the window sill, then start planting! ;D

Salvia Rose Queen

I was thinking about keeping one or two of each variety in a pot, perhaps indoors, to collect seeds. I guess one could mark a given vine while flowering and check it for seeds. Baggie twisty ties or yarn would work.

I'm glad you like the pictures.

I have a lilac tree that was here when we moved in, so not sure what it is. It is pink and last year it was loaded with monarchs. You should have seen me running around with my camera trying to get a good picture, I looked like a mad woman.

Yes it is a butterfly bush. Here is another pic I got of a clearwinged hummingbird moth. Just love them.

I think I will get started with my MG seeds, well at least some to give your idea a try.

Thanks for all your help

Amy

Hey Debra, I'd like to have primrose seeds if there are any left. I'll get an SASE out tomorrow, k?

I like how a MG was climbing on it.

Love that shot amy. I had one show up last year here in Kansas, it was beautiful. I have a lilac bush.. mine is an old fashioned lilac. I love it. I did get a stick of a chinese lilac. Can't wait to see what it does.
Phyllis, no problem, will send it back to you. Today after work, I sat down with my Dh and sorted thru a pan of seeds from my adventures out in the country. will send you some of those too, since they grow so well out in full sun. another good thing to grow mgs on is the tall cosmos. A nice other plant for them to climb on is the cleome , and of course the sunflowers. Hubby liked my live privacy walls around this patio..

yes, i love cleome. I grew cleome last year and saved LOTS of seeds. but that yellow primrose will be pretty with all my blues, LOL.

I love your privacy fence too. the more the merrier.

What lovely pictures for a cold, snowy day. I am a little jealous of your beautiful yard and spare room! I have been looking to move to a bigger place with more garden space, but am doing my best in the meantime.

I love your patio walls such a good idea. I could see myself sitting and reading a good book with a tall glass of cold lemonade. I bet the hummer's come and feast.

That is such a good idea to grow mg up the plants. I did that last year on a new peach tree I planted. My DH was mad at me and said it would hurt the tree. It was just fine. He worries to much.

I am so ready for spring........

Amy

Debra and Amy - WOW! Lovely plant photos! I'm ready for Spring, too! :-) I do love those MG walls! ;-)

The vines do look lovely climbing up and blooming in a tree! ;-) Any photos you could post of that? I'd love to see how it looked! :-)

Oh Amy, that is funny, your Dh and Mine sound like the same guy. I let my mgs grow up our old pear tree. Course, it really doesn't hurt them, by the time they are vining and twinng, they fruits are already gone here.
Garden, what is your name? I am Debra.. nice to meet you, and I know it is hard to grow alot i a small space, I used to live in a house with a tiny tiny yard, but I used anything I could find for things to grow in or on..LOL

I am looking forward to seeing all of your pictures of this coming Spring and Summer. All I can do right now is stare at years past Garden designs in my Back Yard Project, and try to imagine things done in a different way. The sun was out today and it got up to 39 whoohoo!

Phyllis, here is a nice picture of the yellow evening primrose.. I have the pink ones too that smell good, but they don't get tall, and I have the white kansas native ones too.

I love Beckys way of displaying them in the white tubs, tho.I am going to try that this summer I have decided... and I especially like her cement donut rings. I can't find any here ...

Debra - The concrete donuts are used to protect sprinkler heads. Possibly in the irrigation section of HD or in the patio paver section. That's where I got mine and I also saw them at Lowe's. :-)

Pretty Primrose. What do the pink smell like? I love fragrant blooms. :-)

me too. Fragrant first, then color, then the blooms. thats what i look for most, i think.

guys. i am so lost on the other site. i can't remember where Ive posted, there's so many threads within a thread within a forum within a cubit. on mine, on the tn gardening one...on almost all I go to. helpppp. i guess i'm getting old or cantankerous. i can't find nothing anymore.(thats a double negative, i know) i dont mean the ones that show up as Threads i'm watching. its 'after' Ive posted or want to look for something.

dont you think this one is easier to follow? i guess i'm just old.

It seems to me that if you don't "watch" the threads in the forums in the cubits that you have joined, you will miss out on what you wanted to hear from your post. it shows the last unread at the top. if you havn't read it for a few hours, you have to scroll all thru the chitchat to catch up and/or see your reply.
I love the new endeavor, but like you, dear Phyllis, I am old. And, don't have a lot of free time now, either.. as you can see by the times I post.
Anyway, I have a picture of the white evening primrose, which is going to be rampant this year, since i see it popping up thru the leaves already. ( I cover my beds with about two feet of leaves thru the winter) The pink looks like it n bloom, also fragrant, but blooms at night, like the yellow, but stays about 8 to ten inches high instead of up to 8 ft tall, like the showy yellow. Hope that didn't confuzzle anyone.

this is what I like most about the tall showy yellow evening primrose..

I agree Nannie, guess I'm getting old too. lol

well, it shows the threads you're watching. but if a new thread/forum has been opened up, unless you click on the main Cubit, you dont see the new ones. there can be lots of new ones and you dont know it just by following threads you are watching.

(shaking my cane and clacking my teeth) i want the old days back.

like Becky's...i can see the need for cultivars, and different 'informational' forums. but one i was on, we were talking about poppies and wintersowing and I never know where I'm supposed to post. etc. etc.

ok. i'll hush.

Debra...i only had one stamp. i'll mail it tomorrow. have you ever grown bee balm? it's in the monarda family. i grew it in a pot accidently and by the time I realized what it was, i was afraid to move it in the ground.

Oh yeah, I've seen those before. I dont have any, but they would look good on my bank.

I love beebalms.... I havn't see that strain of yours tho..I have about 6 kinds so far.

if I saved the seed right, you'll have 7 =)

Cute Beebalm! I can smell them now ...

somebody want to work for me tomorrow?

I have to work too, I tried to do some gardening tonight downstairs, but I just sorta wandered around, didn't see any bugs and then told them all maybe tommorrow after work..
I am so tired... keep pictures coming of spring..

Okay first day of march... this is i. plantesis with some other mgs... new thread coming..

here comes March! http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1073239/#new

This message was edited Mar 1, 2010 9:47 PM

I think there is a mistake in the link posted above. It leads me back to this page.

Here is the correct link: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1078991/

Yellow evening primrose is a native wildflower (weed) in the midwest.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/71989/

Common Evening Primrose, Night Willow-herb, Hoary Evening Primrose
Oenothera biennis

Thanks, Becky!
John, you are so very right.. it is very tall in the wild, that is why I like it. ;)