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| Morning glory is a fun annual to grow. Of course there are some species which are thugs and should not be grown in a flower garden. Fortunately there are many which are well behaved and are not huge seed makers, such as varieties of Ipomoea nil. Here is a cute one I have growing this winter which is happily making flowers in a six ounce yogurt cup. Do any of you like growing these vines in your garden? |
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- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Wed, Feb 13, 13 at 21:26
| I believe you know my answer. Are you and Emmagrace up for business on Ebay. I really don't trust Ebay, do either of you have PayPal Accounts? |
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| Hi ladyrose65, send me an email and we can talk, if you'd like. The variations in flowers of Ipomoea nil are incredible. The trouble is there are so many options, and the garden is so small. |
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| Continuing on the blue theme, one can't get enough of this color in the garden, IMO. |
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| The leaf of many varieties are as captivating as the flowers. I love the variegated leaves of this variety I'm growing indoors this winter. |
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| This cute Japanese morning glory opened up its flower for me this morning. I am growing the plants indoors over the winter. It is something to distract me from winter cold and dreariness. It is 19 degrees F / -7 degrees C outside and I laugh at it, seeing this beautiful flower today. |
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Some Ipomoea purpurea varieties are simply dazzling, like this flaked flower form.  |
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- Posted by davemichigan zone 6a (SE Michigan (My Page) on Wed, Feb 20, 13 at 12:56
| Hi Gerris, I wonder how big/small they get when they are grown in small cup like that. I like to grow flowers sometimes just to take photographs of them, and small is good. |
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| Hi Dave, Some varieties of Ipomoea nil remain small and can be grown in small containers. I never bothered transplanting the plant shown in the first photo because it was flowering nicely. Normally the process is to start the germinated seed in a small container like that, and then after about the 4th true leaf you transplant to a somewhat larger container. The morning glory varieties that are available commercially which do not make a lot of vine are 'Cameo Elegance' and any of the colors in the 'Sun Smile' series. Normally I grow my MGs outdoors in 3 gallon containers, on up to 5 gallon containers if I grow more than one vine in the pot. Nice to meet you, I'm a native Yuper. |
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| You can also prune certain strains of Ipomoea nil bonsai style for a compact shape. It's all the rage in Japan. I'm trying to learn how to do the technique - it keeps me off the street hahaha. |
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| Here is a cute Japanese morning glory that opened up today. |
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- Posted by davemichigan zone 6a (SE Michigan (My Page) on Thu, Feb 21, 13 at 14:00
| I did some search and found some of your morning glory pictures on internet. They are nice! |
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| Thank you, Dave. Here is one that opened this morning. It makes it worthwhile to get out of bed at the crack of dawn to see these flowers. |
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| Here's one that opened up for me this morning.
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| This summer I'll be growing Ipomoea indica, if any of these sprouted seeds survive. It will be great to see the intense blue flowers of this species.
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| I hope this Japanese morning glory lives on into outdoors growing season so I can see how it performs in the real sun and environment.
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| I like this new Ipomoea purpurea flower. It has light lavender streaks of color in its flowers. |
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| Here is another flower photo of the same vine shown in the previous post. You can see the variegated leaf better in this image.
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| Here is another one from this morning. You can see the variegated leaf and slightly yellow color in the flower, traits that are rarely seen in Ipomoea purpurea. |
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- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Sat, Mar 9, 13 at 20:34
| Gerris2, Could you please send me an e-mail of your Ebay Company name, as well as Emmagrace's. I would like to order as I am bout to end my seed buying for the season. Cordially, |
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- Posted by woodnative 6 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 11, 13 at 7:56
| Enjoy those pics and I need to try some of these other types. BTW is "Flying Saucers" a cultivar of the species purpurea or nil? |
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| The variety 'Flying Saucers' is Ipomoea tricolor. I have yet to grow it but it looks like a knockout color pattern. |
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| This Japanese developed morning glory is making a nice set of flowers. Each flower is petite and opens perfectly. |
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| This baby is the only morning glory I have flowering now. It is a veritable flower making machine! |
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| Have a recent morning glory flower photo. |
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- Posted by woodnative 6 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 16, 13 at 8:15
| OK.....convinced. I ordered a packet of I. nil seeds...original Japanese packet, blue and white mixed type. I have good plant growing skills but what is the best way for me to grow these? Should I start in pots and transplant out or direct sow? Better to use peat pots (less root disturbance when transplanting)? When is the best time to plant them outside......right at last frost or when things warm up? Any tips appreciated!! |
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| When is your last frost date? You will want to start the morning glory seeds indoors a couple weeks prior to that date. I grow my plants out in the way the Japanese grow their MGs. I'll describe that method soon, gotta dental appt to rush to, sorry. |
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- Posted by woodnative 6 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 18, 13 at 8:18
| Looking forward to your response. Last Frost around May 10th here though I often put things out a few days before that. I guess I should start seeds now? Nick and soak first? |
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| You can start the end of April. Later is ok too. The important thing with Ipomoea nil is having toasty soil temperature, not wet cold. Wet cold will kill your seedlings fast. I usually wait to plant out until after Mother's Day. Nick and soak is the way to get those seeds going. I like to put the seeds in folded most paper towels like you see in the photo. I like to use used water bottles or yogurt cups for the first pot. I use a first pot to grow the plant out to maybe 6 leaves. By then you will get a robust root system. Then you can transfer to the second and final pot or into regular garden. I'll stop there and see what questions you have. |
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| I have a pink Ipomoea nil Japanese-developed morning glory that decided to make another flower after a month of not flowering. I have been growing the plant indoors over the winter and I thought it had finished its cycle of life. I gave the plant some worm poop tea, and it sprang back to life. The flower is showing some darker streaks of pink which is attractive. |
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| Thanks for your fabulous pictures--I am in the hospital with a sick child and your posting made it all better :). I love, love morning glories (thanks for the advice as well). Can hardly wait to get out of here to pick up a packet of seeds! |
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| Thank you Flora. I hope your baby returns to good health soon. Here is a pink morning glory to help. It has been flowering all winter long. |
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| Thanks for the help. Flowering all winter long? I really need to get into morning glories :) :) It is truly beautiful--thanks again |
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| Look at this nice purple morning glory that opened this morning. |
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| Now I have trouble deciding which one is the most beautiful :) |
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- Posted by teengardener1888 NY Albany 5a (My Page) on Tue, May 14, 13 at 8:04
| I want to grow moonflower this summer |
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| Moonflower is a nice fragrant flower. Just be sure to get seeds germinated early in the season so you can see flowers before your growing season ends. |
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| I'll be able to start planting outdoors starting this week, yes!! |
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| These are beautiful too. I imagine all the ones you are going to put out. Will you post pictures? Please? |
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| Yes, I'll post photos for certain. This plant made the transition outdoors ok, I think. It is now loaded with flower buds. |
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- Posted by v1rtu0s1ty 5a (My Page) on Thu, May 23, 13 at 10:51
| Beautiful pictures everyone! I bought Heavenly Blue from Burpee. I am going to plant it on an 18 inch wide planter by the post of my pergola. How is this variety? Will it wow me? |
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| Heavenly Blue will wow you if you like blue flowers. Here are a couple photos of my plant from last year. |
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| Here's a close-up of the blue that makes many people delirious with delight. |
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- Posted by v1rtu0s1ty 5a (My Page) on Fri, May 24, 13 at 16:41
| Great pictures! I direct sowed germinated MG today along with hyacinth bean and moonflower on an 18 inch diameter container. I hope they'll do fine. Temp tonight will be 42F. I will have to cover them to keep them away from danger. |
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| Moonflowers? I have tried to do that for a long time--everytime I start for some reason they either do not germinate or they die when they are a few inches tall :(( Good luck with yours--I am sure they will be beautiful. |
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| Our Moonflowers have a spread of about 4 feet, so I don't know about planting them with other flowers except with Morning Glories. The MG's intertwine beautifully on MF's. Here's some MG's planted under a dead tree that I refuse to remove...we live in the country and the birds love it!
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| I love the picture--so whimsical. But, where are the moonflowers? |
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| The moonfowers are in various parts of the yard with other 4 o'clock, but not under the tree. |
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| When I look at the leaves of my mutant morning glory plants, I find my mind and soul are at peace with the world, momentarily. It is a wonderful effect. |
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| I think the leaf of this particular mutant morning glory looks a bit like a lily pad. |
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| I got this morning glory from a neighbor of mine. She says its an old Texas heirloom from her mothers neighbor. |
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| Hi Gerris2. I've enjoyed looking at your pictures, the blooms are lovely and I can't believe you can grow and flower them indoors throughout the winter - but the winters I experience up here in zone 3 Canada are a good 6 months, with an added 2-3 months of weather that is too cool to set plants out in. I am asking you for recommendations for what morning glories I can try up here that would grow and give me some bloom time in the 100 days that we are, in general, given by mother nature to garden in (safe and frost free). Some years we'll get more than that, others not. I know I looked into the moonflower once, but when I read it takes 100 days of growing before you'll see blooms, well, I gave up on that one pretty quick. I have a length of chain link fence I'd sure like to give over to morning glories if I can get several weeks of flowers (lots, not just one or two because it is just getting powered up!). Thanks much, and for taking the time to download photos, helped with the slow cool spring we had, to be able to come and check your thread. |
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| CAST1, you could pass out from seeing such a beautiful flower! Awesome, thanks for sharing it here! |
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| kioni, Zone 3, oh my that's a short summer season. I would try out any of the varieties of Ipomoea purpurea that are available, such as the one that CAST1 posted just before your post. There are quite a few varieties that make flowers of different colors. The vine grows fairly quickly and it's been my experience that it makes flowers more quickly than Ipomoea nil. Grandpa Ott's morning glory is a standard one. It makes deep purple flowers. There are the flaked ones which have the blue or purple swirly patterns in the flower, and they are quite nice. You can get pink, red and rarely white flowers if you look around. Maybe you can trade for seeds on the seed exchange of GW? eBay is a place where you can buy seeds of some of the less common varieties. Just be careful from whom you make your purchase of seeds. If you would like to email me I can talk to you directly regarding eBay vendors. The photo I posted on February 20, 2013 is an example of a blue-purple flaked Ipomoea purpurea flower. |
This post was edited by gerris2 on Sat, Jun 8, 13 at 14:09
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| Some of my Ipomoea nil plants are making flowers and I have yet to transfer the plants to their final growing containers. Here is a large flower pink Japanese-developed morning glory variety which made this flower a week or two ago. It does not have a variety name yet. Isn't it breathtakingly beautiful? |
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| Breathtaking is just about the right word. Thanks! |
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| Thank you, flora2. You made my day. I installed a yellow leaf morning glory (Ipomoea nil) out in my front garden today. It will be growing on a circular trellis for passersby to admire. When in Japan in 2009, I saw many homeowners in Fukuoka and Fukui display their morning glory containers in neat orderly rows in front of their homes. Unfortunately, the letter carrier would not be able to get to our mailbox if I did the same as the Japanese. |
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| Will you post pictures? Please? I had a terrible problem with damping off this year--of about 20 seeds only 6 made it, don't know if it was our cool spring or what--maybe the fact that I used potting soil as opposed to starting mix? |
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| It is not too late to start seeds, we are in the same heat zone, flora2. I certainly will post photos either here or in the Vines forum. I invite you and other morning glory fans to post here or there. I haven't gotten a note from GW yet for posting a vine topic in this forum, however, technically speaking, Ipomoea nil and I. purpurea are annuals and that has been my focus here. Here is the cotyledon pair of a morning glory (Ipomoea nil) that should make a large flower and soft blue color, with white margin. It really ought to have lovely variegated leaves too (I can't remember). I grew it indoors over the winter in 2009. I'm excited to grow it again, finally getting around to it. |
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| This is what the parent looked like. |
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| Wow!! is all I can say. |
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| Here's my heirloom variety. Started them from seed in February and for the longest time did nothing but once the days began getting longer they started to take off. |
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| It's hard to see the details of the plant and flower, with the flower being white on the white background, however, it is a happy looking plant for certain. It doesn't make a vine? |
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| I took a better pic, apparently this variety doesn't grow into a vine. The packet of seeds doesn't say how big it gets, the name reads 'Morning Glory Tricolour Ensign Mix' |
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| Royal Ensign doesn't make a vine, that is correct. I like the variety you're growing, nice and bright, and perfect for the display you show in the photo. I had a new one make some flowers today, Ipomoea nil 'Mountain Stream'. Isn't it fabulous? I couldn't stop taking photos of it this morning. |
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| Few times I have seen something as beautiful--can one get the seeds commercially or it is something that you bred? By the way, I followed your advise and started a new batch of seeds a few days ago. Hope these do better. Thanks for sharing your photos. |
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| This is the first time I've grown this variety. It's name is 'Mountain Stream'. If you look around for a variety called 'Keiryu', or 'Ukigomo', you will get a flower that is close to this particular plant's flower. Thank you for your kind comments! I am always happy to meet and share information with other morning glory fans. I have one last batch of plants to put out in a week or so. I recently received the seeds and could not wait until next summer to see their flowers haha now where to put them, that will be the challenge. Look at this flower, it is a double flower form of a perennial morning glory, Calystegia pubescens 'Tenshi Botan'. I know it isn't an annual but I wanted to share the image, taken this morning. |
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| I was surprised by these nice blue flowers in my pot this morning. I thought both plants were white but I guess not! They are growing very fast, they already had faded blue blooms from yesterday. I hadn't checked on them since Sunday. |
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| Gerris2: I think I have found a new obsession and it is all your fault :) thanks so much for the picture --that pink flower is perfection. Will 07: thank you for posting. Your flowers are beautiful. |
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| Wow, Will07, that one is awesome! I love that color combination! Thanks, flora2, I am guilty as charged. hahaha |
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| Here is the latest one from my garden. What pure joy to grow it! |
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| I thought the flower looked nice in the morning light. |
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| If I didn't know it was a M G I would have thought it was a single peony unfurling--so delicate and beautiful. |
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| If I didn't know it was a M G I would have thought it was a single peony unfurling--so delicate and beautiful. |
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| It does look like a peony variety, flora2. Thank you for your kind comment. :-) I had an angel visit my morning glory garden last week. It let me get close to take the photo. It was a nice moment. It chose to sun itself on a leaf of my Ipomoea albivenia plant. |
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| This one is not an annual morning glory, but I wanted to show the beauty in this plant group. It is a sterile double flower form of Calystegia pubescens. |
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| I have enjoyed seeing all the photos and reading about everyones morning glory exploits. Didn't plant any seeds this spring but saw a self seeded plant growing in the garden which I will let grow on. Very interesting and beautiful varieties, gerris2. |
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| Is Calystegia P a vine as well? So beautiful. |
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| Yes the last one is a vining plant. The best show of flowers is yet to come, thanks!! |
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| It was rainy today. |
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| The water drops make the flowers look fresh. |
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| Beautiful! Thanks |
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| Beautiful! Thanks |
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| Here's a nice purple one. It's almost black in early morning light. |
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| Wow check this one out, it looks like a fireworks display. |
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| I've run out of adjectives :) thanks for the pics. Love, love the purple one--Grandpa Otts?--wrong spelling? |
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| Thanks Gerris for all your wonderful pictures. Bob |
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| Thanks for your nice comment, Bob. Look say this one, a Japanese MG with strain name 'Ginro'. It knocked my socks off this morning! |
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| I'm feeling mortal today, thankfully we are not morning glories. |
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| Here is a nice dark pink flower that is a nice combo with the yellow variegated leaves. It came to me with no variety name. It is definitely a keeper. |
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| This one is still flowering nicely after almost 9 months of life. |
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| I am starting a new thread, this one is getting long and takes too long to load. |
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| Great idea--though it gave us a chance to enjoy your beautiful pictures again :). Thanks! |
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| Is this a Morning Glory? If so, what variety? If not, then what is it? The bloom is about 3/4" across.. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Morning Glory Flowers
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| A google image search on Texas bindweed yields a lot of similar pictures. ZM |
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| ^ Ah thanks! I believe you are correct! :) |
Here is a link that might be useful: Texas Bindweed (Convolvulus equitans)
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