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animaux wrote:

What I've got looks similar to the picture posted. They are mostly
shades of violet to purple, some bluer, some pink. All have the white
throat and violet star. Leaves are heart-shaped as shown. They were
originally planted as garden flowers (40 or so years ago) and have gone
wild. We've planted various seed packets over the years, I always
assumed that's how we got the pink ones. When I was young we only had
purple. They are, or act as, annuals (zone 5-6).

A few years ago we started getting white flowers with arrowhead shaped
leaves, which I now know is bindweed. They may have come in a
wildflower mix, don't know.

Janine


I have a perennial morning glory and it is invasive if I allow it to be. Here
is a photo of it, but the photo shows the flower color to be purple, while the
one I have is no different other than being a deeper true blue than 'Heavenly
Blue' the annual.

http://www.mediterraneangardensociet...oea.indica.cfm

Victoria

That hedge and arch are gorgeous! I wish I could get my wall to fill in
like that. I've just started trimming the tops the last few days trying
to get the bottom to fill in more.

Mine have lots of seeds, every flower becomes a seed pod. If you leave
dirt in a pot for a few days, you get morning glory sprouts. I have a
skinny, delicate little indoor morning glory growing in my basement
office window. It sprouted in a houseplant pot from a bag of potting
soil that had apparently been left outside.

Janine

I wish I could get my wall to fill in
like that. I've just started trimming the tops the last few days trying
to get the bottom to fill in more.



does that work?

rosie readandpost wrote:

I wish I could get my wall to fill in

like that. I've just started trimming the tops the last few days trying
to get the bottom to fill in more.




does that work?


Just started doing it but it should. Most of the wall vines haven't
been branching out the way the vines in more sun have. I've got a pole
in full sun that is about a week or so ahead of my wall, which only gets
partial sun.

I need to trim the top anyway, because the vines keep reaching for the
apple tree just behind/over it. I zigzagged twine originally, but most
of the vines went straight up instead of sideways or angled. I was
looping them down as much as I could, but the top still is thicker than
the bottom (I reinforced the top two rows with fishing line early on).

I've also been transplanting wayward sprouts over to spots that need
filling in. I can see new sprouts coming up at the base too, so that
will help.

This is the first time I've tried this. Next year I will angle the
twine better, maybe spray up from the corners rather than zigzag. And
I'll start looping the vines down earlier, really only did it when they
hit the top this year.

Janine

Thanks All for your input
warren

That's what I call the standard species of morning glory, Ipomoea purpurea.

"wrrn" wrote in message
.com...
Greetings gardeners-

I have a vine which simply showed up and started to grow aggressively. It
even
began strangling other plants. My estimate is that it grew 8 feet in two
weeks!
I live in coastal Southern California.

It looks like morning glory flowers, but the leaves do not, however I'm
only
familiar with the standard species.

Please take a look he
http://www.warrenize.com/_tempy/Mglory_or_what.jpg
and let me know what you think.

Thanks
warren

In article , "Andrew Ostrander"
wrote:

That's what I call the standard species of morning glory, Ipomoea purpurea.



...you wouldnt be the Andrew Ostrander from the notorious Rm 3 at DMCI,
would you????

murphy, hiding under an alias...)

Yes I would, and who would murphy be?

"murphy" wrote in message
...
In article , "Andrew Ostrander"
wrote:

That's what I call the standard species of morning glory, Ipomoea
purpurea.



..you wouldnt be the Andrew Ostrander from the notorious Rm 3 at DMCI,
would you????

murphy, hiding under an alias...)

In article , "Andrew Ostrander"
wrote:

Yes I would, and who would murphy be?


.....well how about that...))).....it really is a small world.....this
week is the first time i've been in rec.gardens and i've bumped into 2 ppl
i know...

....i need proof before i tell all..G..who was the teacher presiding over
rm 3..??...sorry to be paranoid, but one bad past experience has made me
cautious!!

murphy, back from work in about 6 hours....as the plot thickens...

F.O. Norman, but if you want more assurance, you can check my web pages at
http://www.mts.net/~aostrand/gardensite/homegrdn.htm
and http://www.mts.net/~aostrand/gardensite/general.htm , My photo is on
the second page with the 2001 info and, oh damn, I just noticed that
Outlook Express has been sending my real email address with my postings.
Explains why the spam has started.

"murphy" wrote in message
...
In article , "Andrew Ostrander"
wrote:

Yes I would, and who would murphy be?


....well how about that...))).....it really is a small world.....this
week is the first time i've been in rec.gardens and i've bumped into 2 ppl
i know...

...i need proof before i tell all..G..who was the teacher presiding over
rm 3..??...sorry to be paranoid, but one bad past experience has made me
cautious!!

murphy, back from work in about 6 hours....as the plot thickens...

In article , "Andrew Ostrander"
wrote:

F.O. Norman,

.......thats it!!....wow....i am still trying to get my head around the
fact that of all the gazillions of ppl on the net, you bump into ppl you
know..

hiya andy!


.....back in room 3 i was marlene johnson....i did marry and became
Coates...and actually divorced about 3 years ago but remained Coates...i
cant remember if you were at the reunion in 1990?...

but if you want more assurance, you can check my web pages at
http://www.mts.net/~aostrand/gardensite/homegrdn.htm
and http://www.mts.net/~aostrand/gardensite/general.htm

.......wow....sounds like quite the garden you have....i cant get the
photos to d/l but that is likely due to the fact the i have an iMac and
its very selective..G..but will try again from another point of
entry....

, My photo is on
the second page with the 2001 info and, oh damn, I just noticed that
Outlook Express has been sending my real email address with my postings.
Explains why the spam has started.

.....i shovel out mountains of it on a daily basis...too bad you cant dump
it in the garden!!..i'm living in BC and think i've died and gone to
heaven after gardening in the prairies for 40 years....gardening is one of
my passions...

.....if you want to write and share news garden or otherwise, my e-mail is



....dont want to subject all these nice folks in rec.gardens to all that..)

murphy/marlene