I have morning glories growing in hanging baskets to try to keep them contained - will they grow back from seed next year? Is there a way to get most of the seed in the containers? I tried picking up the fallen blossoms - but I looked at one I picked up this morning and the seed end looks like a hollow tube. Did I wait too long to pick it up or will they all be that way? I was trying to put them back in the pot in hopes to have more next year - but still in the container?

The seeds develop in the pod that you see long after the flower drops.

Preventing seed drop?
Good question.

At my previous garden, Morning glories took over to the point where it got difficult to grow anything else.

Personally I wouldn't be real concerned about the hanging baskets... The ground below? Expect lots of volunteers.

stone said: The seeds develop in the pod that you see long after the flower drops.

Preventing seed drop?
Good question.

I noticed and started trying to cut the blooms in the afternoon after they wilt - but I don't get all the them - some of the first ones hit the ground and I didn't really look for the seed pods.
I'll have to watch out for where they come up next year and try to keep them somewhat contained.
Did you have annuals or perennials? Mine are supposed to be annuals - so I guess it's possible to have all of next year's in the ground and none in the baskets?
I like them - but I like my veggies and other flowers too. They might be alot more work than I thought they would be.....


At my previous garden, Morning glories took over to the point where it got difficult to grow anything else.

Personally I wouldn't be real concerned about the hanging baskets... The ground below? Expect lots of volunteers.

I even messed up the quote - oops ...... I don't even know how I got my response in the middle of the quote ..... I'm going to have to be paying alot more attention than that

I tried to fix your post...

stone said:
The seeds develop in the pod that you see long after the flower drops.

Preventing seed drop?
Good question.

Cat1ady said:
I noticed and started trying to cut the blooms in the afternoon after they wilt - but I don't get all the them - some of the first ones hit the ground and I didn't really look for the seed pods.
I'll have to watch out for where they come up next year and try to keep them somewhat contained.
Did you have annuals or perennials? Mine are supposed to be annuals - so I guess it's possible to have all of next year's in the ground and none in the baskets?
I like them - but I like my veggies and other flowers too. They might be alot more work than I thought they would be.....

stone said:
At my previous garden, Morning glories took over to the point where it got difficult to grow anything else.

Personally I wouldn't be real concerned about the hanging baskets... The ground below? Expect lots of volunteers.

Cat1ady said:

Cat1ady said:
Did you have annuals or perennials?

While I have the perennial ipomea pandurata... It's not the least bit aggressive... Kind of difficult to get increase.
Likewise the ipomea alba... Collect seeds or not have any next year.

The purple ones that you posted? Extremely weedy.

Weedy? As in aggressive and hard to control?

As in seedlings and more seedlings... every time it rains, more babies.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be watching out for them to come up and give my best effort to keep them contained. Sounds like the mixed colors that I bought would have been better used to cover a fence than the middle of a garden - opps.

I'm constantly pulling out morning glories, if I don't do it at least once a week, they take over. They attach to both fences and will completely cover them if left (and they're horrible to remove if you wait until fall and the vines are dried between the chain links), they come up in flower beds where they twist around any other flower or plant growing and pull it down to the ground, they climb up shrubs and pull the branches down, climb up trees and can cover them if left, they even come up in the the middle of the lawn and will just spread out. I get them usually long before they flower, yet they keep coming back. All summer.

Morning glory seeds can stay viable up to 80 years... I love morning glories, but they're just too much work at my age.