Baton Rouge area, LA (Zone 8b) | March 2009 | positive
This plant does not make root runners and it is a annual. It can reseed itself but in my climate ipomoea tri color never has reseeded wi...Read Moreth near the numbers and annoyance level of the ipomoea purpurea. ipomea tri color will not reseed if you remove the spent vines before the pods ripen in late fall.
I love the look of the flowers and the foliage of morning glories. They grow wild all over the place here, proving that they are invasive...Read More. So I grow them up the sides of my porch. It's a natural choice for me because in the fall instead of paying for new plants or seeds every year the kids and I just go around the neighborhood and pick pods. We get purple and deep, magenta pink ones here. Last summer I found some that were white with pink stripes coming from the center. While they are invasive it is beautiful to pass by a abandoned house and see the yard as mounds of morning glories rather than weeds.
Ipomoea tricolor is a tropical to semi-tropical species that is grown as an annual and is not invasive in the north,as the seeds do not s...Read Moreurvive the repeated freezings and rethaws of the northerly zones autumnal and springtime weather conditions...;Cultivars of Ipomoea tricolor include Heavenly Blue,Pearly Gates,Blue Star,Flying Saucers,Wedding Bells and Summer Skies.
Please see the listings for the cultivars mentioned for further information regarding accurate pictures and growing conditions.
Additionally, This general entry for 'Grannyvine' is redundant in view of the separate entries for the cultivars of Ipomoea tricolor,unless someone wants to enter 'wild' Ipomoea tricolor,that allows adequate visualization of the key parts(most importantly the sepals) so a realistic identification may be enabled..
I love this plant except when it grows everywhere. One day I was doing a report for school and I chose a Morning glory and I'm glad becau...Read Morese there so pretty.
As soon as I see mine starting to seed, (they seed where the blooms were) I cut it at the base and let it die. Though I do lose some bloo...Read Morem time, it's better than letting them seed all over. Or you can let a few seed, save them for next year and then cut it back.
When I first saw this plant, I loved it... great looking floewrs! But after planting it in my tropical garden, I hate it with a passion....Read More I have spent more hours weeding this one plant than all other activities combined. It covers literally everything, including my 40 Ash tree... Yikes. Hard weed to pull up, and impervious to Round up. It sends roots down every few inches as it travels along the ground, and the seeds sprout everywhere. AUGH!
I LOVE this vine when it's under control! Unfortunately, I planted too many on my mailbox and on the ranch rail fencing last year, and i...Read Moret was a VERY time consuming task removing all the dead vines later! It also completely smothered my climbing roses and clematis. Since they reseed, I've got little seedlings popping up everywhere this year, and I'm pulling them like weeds!
I knew this plant was on the poison plant list for the ASPCA, so I added this fact to the Database information.
This plant does not make root runners and it is a annual. It can reseed itself but in my climate ipomoea tri color never has reseeded wi...Read More
I love the look of the flowers and the foliage of morning glories. They grow wild all over the place here, proving that they are invasive...Read More
Ipomoea tricolor is a tropical to semi-tropical species that is grown as an annual and is not invasive in the north,as the seeds do not s...Read More
I love this plant except when it grows everywhere. One day I was doing a report for school and I chose a Morning glory and I'm glad becau...Read More
As soon as I see mine starting to seed, (they seed where the blooms were) I cut it at the base and let it die. Though I do lose some bloo...Read More
When I first saw this plant, I loved it... great looking floewrs! But after planting it in my tropical garden, I hate it with a passion....Read More
I LOVE this vine when it's under control! Unfortunately, I planted too many on my mailbox and on the ranch rail fencing last year, and i...Read More
This plant is very invasive! It is self-sowing.