Joseph! No blooms this morning. Need to plant more!

The more you get into growing MGs, the more you'll want to grow them, like all of them that ever existed. Hahaha

Let the journey begin!

@Azgarden to the club There is no hope for you now

Ronnie! What a great club to be in! They are such beautiful plants...both the blooms and foliage have such variety. I always thought of mg's as the standard blue of my childhood, which I . Only recently have I discovered the other types and I'm sure what I've seen is only the tip of the iceberg

One of the buds opened on the Convolvulus tricolor plant!!!

Y oh my, convolvulus tricolor.

I grew this years and years ago, now I can see I will need to grow it every year. Hahaha

The color is great!!

Can a morning glory be crossed with a moonflower

It is my understanding that it is not possible. You can always try.

Hi Joseph,

That Tricolor has a true yellow center! And I think there is another Ipomea that is yellow. If I were breeding morning glories, I would be aggressively cross pollinating in order to get yellows (and related oranges, creams, and such) into the Morning Glory world.

You have mentioned morning glory crosses that weren't possible in the past, and I have no doubt that people have made such reports. But I wouldn't accept them as gospel. There is that old saying that, if at first you don't succeed, try, try, again.

There are new techniques for making crosses that were previously not successful. I wouldn't be breeding zinnias if they didn't include a spectrum of warm colors. Cross pollination, and making hybrids between hybrids, can produce new genetic combinations. I have seen many such recombinations in my zinnias, and these are just a couple of examples.

I'm not saying that you personally should take on the task of of creating yellow morning glories, but I think that some morning glory breeders should do that. Morning glories are capable of a lot more than what they have shown for the last few hundred years. And so are zinnias, and probably a lot of other ornamentals as well.

ZM

Thanks, ZM. That activity would certainly keep me off the streets.

A true yellow Ipomoea nil is the dream of all Japanese morning glory growers. If you did it, you would attain superhero status in Japan.

Purple to die for

There is less purple in the flowers of one of the Convolvulus tricolor plants, and the size is smaller, too, than is seen in the other plant that is currently blooming.

Wowow, and here I thought there were only solid colored ones...

A couple more photos

This Convolvulus tricolor is still making blooms.

Convolvulus tricolor 'Royal Ensign'

Here are a couple more photos of Convolvulus tricolor 'Royal Ensign'.