There's that lovely white again! The stamen protrusion is quite unique and beautiful!

It's one of my favorites, too, Kadie.

I'm waiting for a couple more new vines to flower up. They have buds now. Maybe next week we'll see them. Until then, here is the recent photos from the morning glory garden.

As always, click on each photo to get a higher quality image.

That first one looks like a watercolor....love it!!

That is a special one, quite beautiful.

Ipomoea albivenia from tonight.

Soooo delicate looking!!

The rays are a bit stiff but the areas between them are indeed delicate, like spider web.

Morning glory flowers from today - party on, dudes! Click on the photo for a higher quality image.

dave said:I have created the forum

http://garden.org/forums/view/...

To be continued here:

The thread "Show off your photos!" in Ipomoea forum

must "watch \" the new thread!

I've been catching up on 2+ weeks of photos, enjoying an extended stroll through your deck garden with my coffee. There aren't enough words to describe the ethereal beauty of those blooms, and you have some exquisite photos of them... how will you decide which one to enter in the "annuals" category of the photo contest?!

I appreciate the "group photo" on Aug 29... so lovely! Do you stroll your deck every morning with coffee in one hand, camera in the other?

Thank you, Jill, you made my day. I do carry coffe around with me on the weekend but during the week it is more rushed photo sessions.

This has been my best season in a long time growing these little angels.

Flowers from today. The plants are responding to the recent warm spell.

Ipomoea purpurea hige purple



Not so dark, from the same plant.



Ipomoea purpurea Q1152

Joseph,

Sorry if the information is provided elsewhere - but which great looking Ipomoea is this?:

That is Ipomoea platensis, a nice fat root morning glory.

Okay... Thanks Joseph.

Grown from seed in Delaware... or did you receive as a "fat root"?

All my fat root / caudiciform morning glories I grew from seeds, except for Merremia aurea and Ipomoea bolusiana.

It is more fun to grow from seeds but lots of prayer is needed that the seed vendor or trader did not substitute species and that it does not take 8 years to see flowers.

Thanks Joseph.

Joseph, I know the MGs in your photos are growing "up," but have you tried them in hanging baskets? I've had terrible tangles in the past when starting MGs from seed under the lights (they get away from me), so I was thinking that once they got started I could bring them upstairs and separate them... but I have more window space available as hanging space...

I have visions of morning glory vines twining all around the edges of my back deck canopy this summer!