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Is this a morning glory?
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This was given to me by a friend from his greenhouse, he had a trayful, very dry, and all overgrown by the roots, there are plants and flowers coming out of bottom of pot! The leaf is very luxuriant, and velvety.Its green but underside is pink. Help would be appreciated. |
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Is this a morning glory?
Sheila wrote:
http://s528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/sheilaformby/ This was given to me by a friend from his greenhouse, he had a trayful, very dry, and all overgrown by the roots, there are plants and flowers coming out of bottom of pot! The leaf is very luxuriant, and velvety.Its green but underside is pink. Help would be appreciated. Rather out of focus to tell, but it could be an Asarina (Maurandya) or very possibly a Gloxinia. -- Jeff |
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Is this a morning glory?
On 4 Oct, 16:54, "Jeff Layman" wrote:
Sheila wrote: http://s528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/sheilaformby/ This was given to me by a friend from his greenhouse, he had a trayful, very dry, and all overgrown by the roots, there are plants and flowers coming out of bottom of pot! *The leaf is very luxuriant, and velvety..Its green but underside is pink. *Help would be appreciated. Rather out of focus to tell, but it could be an Asarina (Maurandya) or very possibly a Gloxinia. -- Jeff Try achimenes David Hill |
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"Dave Hill" wrote in message ... On 4 Oct, 16:54, "Jeff Layman" wrote: Sheila wrote: http://s528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/sheilaformby/ This was given to me by a friend from his greenhouse, he had a trayful, very dry, and all overgrown by the roots, there are plants and flowers coming out of bottom of pot! The leaf is very luxuriant, and velvety.Its green but underside is pink. Help would be appreciated. Rather out of focus to tell, but it could be an Asarina (Maurandya) or very possibly a Gloxinia. -- Jeff Try achimenes Yes, thats the one, thanks very much! |
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Is this a morning glory?
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writes Try achimenes Yes, thats the one, thanks very much! Hmm I have three ipomea plants that looked very much like that with the same pale pink flower and growth. Think |i got them from Johnson's seeds. Well mine are definitely Morning Glories but very very slow growing and I won't bother next year. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Janet Tweedy writes
In article , Sheila writes Try achimenes Yes, thats the one, thanks very much! Hmm I have three ipomea plants that looked very much like that with the same pale pink flower and growth. Think |i got them from Johnson's seeds. Ipomea flowers are radially symmetrical (ie they look the same as you rotate them, whichever 'petal' you have at the top, whereas the ones in the pic were clearly bilaterally symmetrical - they'd look different if you turned them upside down. So if your ipomeas were like he ones in the picture, you were probably sold the wrong seed! -- Kay |
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Is this a morning glory?
"Sheila" wrote http://s528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/sheilaformby/ This was given to me by a friend from his greenhouse, he had a trayful, very dry, and all overgrown by the roots, there are plants and flowers coming out of bottom of pot! The leaf is very luxuriant, and velvety.Its green but underside is pink. Help would be appreciated. Archimenes, probably celsi, the hot water plant. It will die back over winter so keep the pot perfectly dry then when the weather starts to warm up repot the white maggot like roots in fresh potting compost, careful with the watering at first until you see good growth then start watering well and feeding well, keep the compost always moist in summer. Sometimes with A celsi you get new small green rhizomes (or whatever they are) growing on the stems and these can also be potted up. Lovely plants IMO and there are some more beautiful hybrids about. I have a pure white one and a white with purple throat all originally sent me by someone on here. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "Sheila" wrote http://s528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/sheilaformby/ This was given to me by a friend from his greenhouse, he had a trayful, very dry, and all overgrown by the roots, there are plants and flowers coming out of bottom of pot! The leaf is very luxuriant, and velvety.Its green but underside is pink. Help would be appreciated. Archimenes, probably celsi, the hot water plant. It will die back over winter so keep the pot perfectly dry then when the weather starts to warm up repot the white maggot like roots in fresh potting compost, careful with the watering at first until you see good growth then start watering well and feeding well, keep the compost always moist in summer. Sometimes with A celsi you get new small green rhizomes (or whatever they are) growing on the stems and these can also be potted up. Lovely plants IMO and there are some more beautiful hybrids about. I have a pure white one and a white with purple throat all originally sent me by someone on here. Yes, thats the one, thanks very much! |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote "Sheila" wrote http://s528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/sheilaformby/ This was given to me by a friend from his greenhouse, he had a trayful, very dry, and all overgrown by the roots, there are plants and flowers coming out of bottom of pot! The leaf is very luxuriant, and velvety.Its green but underside is pink. Help would be appreciated. Archimenes, probably celsi, the hot water plant. It will die back over winter so keep the pot perfectly dry then when the weather starts to warm up repot the white maggot like roots in fresh potting compost, careful with the watering at first until you see good growth then start watering well and feeding well, keep the compost always moist in summer. Sometimes with A celsi you get new small green rhizomes (or whatever they are) growing on the stems and these can also be potted up. Lovely plants IMO and there are some more beautiful hybrids about. I have a pure white one and a white with purple throat all originally sent me by someone on here. I forgot to mention that the roots/rhizomes are extremely delicate and will break up into tiny bits at the slightest heavy-handedness. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... I forgot to mention that the roots/rhizomes are extremely delicate and will break up into tiny bits at the slightest heavy-handedness. Thanks, I will be very careful, its looking lovely now, has 2 flowers on, very pretty indeed. |
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Sheila wrote: Thanks, I will be very careful, its looking lovely now, has 2 flowers on, very pretty indeed. Talking about morning glory, I planted some layers of Ipomoea indica outside at the start of summer, and am getting a fair number of flowers. Not a lot, but what do you expect? Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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