Hi all!! Unfortunately your problems are only beginning...I have an enclosed patio that used to be completely covered with my gorgeous morning glories, until the bugs came...by the droves...
And yet again, I too am battling the mysterious holes in the leaves with the chewed up edges and the brown buds...do you, by chance, have those little grey bugs that look like little armadillos and roll up into a ball if "threatened" - they're often referred to as Roly polys, sowbugs, pillbugs - these are mistakenly believed to be harmless, but will destroy your garden by eating the leaves and roots of plants like morning glories - with thin leaves and shallow, thin roots - as well as anything located near containers, rocks AND HOSTAS and anything else that creates a "shady", damp area where they can hide en masse!! Also, morning glories seem to be the food of choice for tiny green bugs that pile on but blend with the green of the stems and small worms that seem to take on the color of the leaves as they hang on the edges and chew the leaves down to the skeleton - and these things have a voracious appetite as they whittle the largest of vines down to a shadow of their former selves!!
My once beautiful garden refuge is now home to a host of "invisible" troopers of death destroying the miraculous purple display that, 10 years ago, sold my home to me before I ever entered it!! (I'll add pics of the destruction, and hopefully the culprits, as soon as possible!!)
