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How beautiful. I can feel the flower opening its radiance in this sequence.
Alas, we can’t grow Morning Glory her in NZ because it becomes rampant and takes over everything.
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Thank you, Juliet. They can be quite invasive here as well. These are in a pot on our deck. Even in pots, they have a penchant for traveling. I just love their soft petals, though, and can’t resist their early morning cheer.
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I have heard other people say that MG can become invasive. I wish it would like my garden, it simply will not settle for me.
It is so beautiful, perhaps I’ll try again another year.
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It can be invasive, Friko. In fact, it already is in my own garden – in this case, hopping from pot to pot. I still enjoy morning glories. They tend to start blooming around here in August, just when all is is sad and and fading.
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It looks like its opening will reveal the center of the sun……
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Yes! A perfectly poetic way to describe it, Andra.
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The colors are spectacular. I have more familiarity with the blues! It’s such an old fashioned beauty and I haven’t grown it in years. I think I forgot about Morning Glory! I will need to make note…and I’m smiling that the Bye Bye Birdie reference. One of my favotie movies! 🙂 D
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I do love the “heavenly blues”, Debra, and they are more familiar around here. The one above is from one little pot I bought the first year we lived here and it keeps coming back, much to my delight. I’m so pleased you picked up on the song. I still smile when the movie airs and Ann Margaret and friends have their gossipy telephone conversation.
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Oh, so lovely. The Morning Glories that I see around here are bright blue. I may try digging some up and potting them. They grow along the corn and bean fields around here. They seem to be surviving the drought better than the corn has.
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I love the blue ones, Janet. Heavenly Blue. They were quite prolific at our other house. I’m not sure what the name of these are, but they return each year and by August they rule the deck. Morning glories are pretty resilient and will self-seed with abandon.
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Beautiful color! I’ve only seen blue and white ones. And I agree with the comments and your answers about keeping them in pots — we know from experience here in Oregon (when we owned our house) that they will take over if not confined.
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They are hard to control, aren’t they Sallie? I don’t even bother to plant seeds anymore as these pop up on their own.
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My morning glory vine is going all over the place but nary a bloom. I’m hoping that now that it is a tad bit cooler it might bloom before frost. LOVE that color!
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They have really just started to bloom here, Joyce. This morning there are masses of color. These morning glories usually start their show late August. In a few weeks I’m sure they will start to look leggy, so I truly enjoy them when they bloom. Isn’t it a fabulous color? The sun was hitting this blossom just right the morning I took this shot.
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I think this is an Oasis song. Huhuhu, my blue morning glories are now starting to wither. I, too must write their story before they fade away. Nonetheless, I am willing to plant a new batch as I suppose, they are a must in my garden.
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I love how blogging teaches me something almost every day! I didn’t know of Oasis and their song. I was referencing the “telephone” song from the musical of yore – Bye, Bye Birdie. Thank you so much for your comment and reference – and do write your own morning glory’s story.
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Dear Penny, truly the glory of a new morn is captured as essence within these petals. When I look at flowers I wonder wherein is the color. Mostly we see color painted on something, but in a flower it’s the very fiber of its being that is colored. This is a great mystery for me and always has been. Peace.
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