One of my latest acquisitions is a Morning Glory. Morning Glories are vigorous climbers and I'm hoping this guy can handle the right side of our deck. As most of our flowers are in the purple family, I was really drawn by the deep purple flowers on this particular Morning Glory. Like the Clematis and Black-Eyed Susans, I potted these in a large plastic container with a mix of potting soil & peat moss.
Unlike the other climbers though, these came with wooden hoops rather than a mini trellis, so it was harder to use that as the original climbing structure. Instead, I wound the existing vines around our spindles and secured them with zip ties to help them get started.
The flower itself is gorgeous. If you look closely, you can see it has red striations with a white center that seems to almost glow in the photos.
The biggest problem I've had with it so far is the problem I'm having with all of our flowers - no sun. We've had gray, rainy day after gray day and we only have more in sight (more on this later). If you look closely at the leaves, you can see they are starting to decay a little and I'm worried about the long term impact this could have on the new additions. So far, the Morning Glory is still flowering, but I'm concerned that this could change with continued gray days.
Those are beautiful! Hope you see some sun soon!
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