Last year was my first year on Dave's and I didn't understand how useful the seed trading section was. Now I know, I'll be collecting seeds everywhere I go around here this year. I traded or recieve for free about 20 different plants so today I got them all planted in little seed trays. Hopefully this works out. LOL. I recieved some seeds that said black morning glory, I'm really interested in what those will turn out to look like. Never really planted seeds so another learning experience coming up. I hope not but that's usually how things work out.
Just started all my seeds
That Black Morning Glory does sound interesting! Keep us posted how things are going.
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I've been cured FOREVER of a love for Morning Glory! A few years ago, I bought a variety of Ipomea acuminata ("Blue Dawn Flower") from Logee's because I was enthralled by the color. It's a gorgeous shade of blue! Absolutely striking. It was billed as a "tropical"(z10), so I saw no danger in planting it in the ground in the spring. It was from South America (Brazil, I think), so I didn't think twice about planting it. WRONG! I can't get rid of the #@^&# stuff! It's showing up everywhere, and has turned into a real pest! This is how it happens. I have no choice left but to use a chemical weed killer on it this year in an attempt to eradicate ALL of it. It's worse than wisteria!
That's why i never put morning glory in the ground .. i always grow it in pots and mostly in the greenhouse. If I do grow it outside, it's in a pot on bricks and every flower gets cut off after bloom or tagged if I want seeds. Someone let a pink morning glory get away, I. cordatotriloba and it's eating our neighborhood. It swarmed over my hedge rose last year. I picked off as many flowers and seed pods I could find. I don't know if I even made a dent.
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In the house where I used to live, my neighbor had a garden and he grew Morning Glories with his tomatoes...why would he do that?
...cause he's a dang fool??? They'll smother those tomatoes...
Might be to fool the birds by giving them something more interesting than the tomato and to attract the bees for pollenation.
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I don't think MG's are a problem if you put them in an easily controlable area. I'm going to grow them on a few trees that are surrounded by lawn so they're easy to keep under control. Here's a pic of some I've had for 5 years or so.
