Byndeweed Blooms

This is one of my growing areas.

Looking down the MG and grapevine tunnel.

Some of the Knolia's growing in the tunnel.

A silky Chachamaru

Some hot pink nils.
I'm not sure I like these, they kinda hurt my eyes.

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side view

Sunrise Serenade growing in the tunnel.
Note: I was perplexed when the first few blooms did not look "shredded" the first time I grew these. Then I found out it takes a number of blooms before they start producing the shredded look.

I found a one-eyed admirer of these purple blooms.

Here he is up close, a Pacific Tree Frog.

OOOH Beth - save me some seeds of the "shredded" one!!!!

aaah! What happended to his other eye???? ;(

Prolific purple nils

Gypsy bride, still blooming like crazy.

I don't know what happened to his eye. It looks like an old injury, or he was born without it. I still have Sunrise Serenade seeds if you send a SASE. Just realize that it takes a few blooms for the shredded look to arrive.

Cool! I'll get an envelope all ready and send it out to you. Thanks so much!!

Jeannine

Beth, You are catching on too that this one produces almost single to very shredded blooms on one vine. You can find both kinds on one single length of vine. It is possible to begin thinking these are a fluke until a few days later you walk out there and presto they are nearly All double and beautifully shredded!

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Very nice collection, Beth! I like your gardens and your photos are very pleasing! I especially like the purple nil - very simple and elegant. Thanks for sharing.

Arlan

Ditto, what Arlan said, thanks for the shareing the photos, Frank

How nice, after being driven in by 102*F with heat index of 111*F, to find your garden here - that tunnel is "kewl" in more ways than one. If ours collapses before frost, you've given me a better plan for next year. Enjoyed your garden tour very much.

Karen

Best utilization of hog panels I've ever seen - ;) Thanks for sharing - very "cool"! Blooms are splendid, too!

Hello:Beth Nice!MG tunnel.Love the gypst bride MG.Mine didnt do well afer germination.We have had some dry hot weather here.Save me a few seeds.

Sorry about the heat in the rest of the country. We are in the 70's all week. It has been a cool summer for us. Where is that global warming!

ha it wasnt a cool summer for me ....been hot and dry but glad it cooled up a bit this week now if it would rain...

pam

It's here. 100 degrees this weekend, it's 83 right now with humidity of 67% and will climbe to 96 or higher... I just love Oregon. Gorgeous from border to border in any direction.

Lavender moonvine

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This is Split Personality. Hopefully it will get more "split" as time goes on.

This Red Star is blooming on the most ridiculous plant. It is so small it only has a couple leaves. What a runt!

This Red Star plant is larger.

It is GORGEOUS! So vivid! My red star looks a little different, do I not have a red star? Maybe red picotee? It blooms on a spindley 8 in plant in the spring time, it does look rather odd.. like it's blooming right from the dirt!

Aunt B, yours looks like Mt Fuji red, very pretty.

Beth, sorry I missed this thread. All your blooms are beautiful.
I love the mg tunnel.

Jackie

Very nice Mt. Fuji Red!!!

It was a seed packet! How dare they misname my purty red MG! lol Thanks, Ladies.

Your bloom is lovely! Those seed companies are more into making money than getting the names right.

Beth -unusual but nice color on this one here
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=3837081
might be Ipomoea triloba...did you plant any Ipomoea triloba(?)...some of the other closely related seeds I sent could turn out to be other species in the batatas series...

AuntB - if you look at the leaf pattern visible just to the right of your flower
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/AuntB_1186690089_343.jpg
you'll see that it is more consistent for the Yaguruma
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/23046/
than the Mt."Fuji no Beni"
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/162506/

Your Yagaruma has 6 white rays...nice...

TTY,...

Ron

Thanks Ron. Poor thing, for 3 or 4 years, I've been calling it Red Star... those were some pretty ones on the links you posted. I need to surf around in the plant files, sometime..

Ron, I will go photograph the leaves on that one. I planted it before I got your seeds so it was from somewhere else. It was tagged but the dogs think it is funny to grab the tags out of my pots and play with them. I can't find a tag in this one.

Beth - Is there any soft spines developing on your plant with the bloom you posted here
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/ByndeweedBeth_1186687422_358.jpg
The corolla looks 'quite' like Ipomoea turbinata
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/54954/

TTY,...

Ron

I think you're right! It does have soft "thorns". The thing that was throwing me off was the size of the bloom. They are about 2 inches only! I always thought they would be big blooms, like a moonflower.

This is the side view

Here is a leaf I dug out of the jumble of intertwined plants.