Moonflower, Hyacinth Bean, Coral Bean, Butterfly Pea

(Carole) Cleveland, TX(Zone 9a)

I fell in love with the moonflower after poking around here on DG. I had to try them (actually don't know why I never tried before). At first, I thought I'd failed completely. They seemed to take for-e-ver to come up (like weeks), then finally... one set of leaves emerged, then another... and today I'm fairly certain I saw a third. yea!! I probably started them too late, so I will know better for next year.

While I was waiting, I read where the seeds have a hard coat so they need to be soaked or otherwise crack the hard shell. I decided to put some seeds in a damp paper towel in a baggie. Put it in the window and voile! in less than a week, I had all six emerge with roots! put them in pots at the base of my new arbor. They're still puny, but hey....

Looking at pictures of gardens past, I missed my Hyacinth Bean Vines. I found a pack of my own seeds marked "duds" (you know, ill-formed, puny, sickly looking wannabe seeds). I got desperate (lol) and threw them in a pot with some water and a little prayer.

TODAY I noticed I have ONE little Lablab about 3" tall ~ whoohoo!!

I just had to share my fun news ;-)

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(Carole) Cleveland, TX(Zone 9a)

I'd been missing my Coral Bean vine too... seems I'd given ALL my seeds away ;-(
Like the Lablab, I found a small packet from like 2008 of my own vine. Who knew if these would grow at all? I HAD to try!!

Lookie what I found today!!

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(Carole) Cleveland, TX(Zone 9a)

and I didn't think I had any Butterfly Pea Vine coming this year, but here they are!! have at least 4 or 5 of them coming up so far.

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Ft Myers, FL(Zone 10a)

Did you take any photos of them when they (hopefully) bloomed for you?

(Caitlin) Fresno, CA(Zone 9b)

Pics! Pics! =) Can we see what these will look like once they are grown?

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