My beautiful Morning Glory (Ipomoia, to the gardener's gardener).
These plants all seeded themselves from last year's plants which, in turn, seeded themselves from the previous year's plants. Which might have been some I grew from seed... I don't think I can remember that far back.
Whenever I've grown this plant - which really is glorious - from seed, it has been precious - fragile - tender - in need of protection from drought, snails and other hazards of the English garden. These plants which seed themselves are tough and lairy - laughing in the face of drought, scoffing at the thought of slugs.
Some seeded themselves between the cracks in the patio brickwork, and showed not the slightest awareness of the drought conditions killing off other plants.
Called Morning Glory because they only flower in the morning, these plants (which grow like weeds in the hedgerows in Perpignan, take note Tat!) have exquisitely elegant long furled buds and wonderful deep rich colours.
Cause for reflection, as I'm doing lots of pre-Autumn work work in the garden (I wont admit its Autumn for a while yet) that whatever I plan, Nature may well have other - and probably better - ideas.
19 comments:
rather like the peri-menopause, are we in peri-autumn? We certainly seem to have entered the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness here in East Anglia! Wake to find mist, and then the sun breaks through with all it's lovely warmth. It's a lovely time of year, peri-autumn!
Iponema - isn't that a song? or an illness?
hahaha, thanks Luce, aka, the girl from...
peri-autumn, thats v. good. The season which precedes SAD Tourettes.
Weather gods over here in Oxfordshire decree autumn...torrential rain...lovely Morning Glorys, I am inpsired to grow them again next year, so uplifting first thing in the morning!
hi, lovely morning glories, i used to grow these alot in my old garden, they are still unusual to see around here. Another one i like are the black eyed susans, rarely grown but so beautiful! Wiltshire weather is rubbish, no doubt about it, we will most likely skip autumn and go straight to a dark soggy winter. Booo Hooo!
Wow! That was some storm we had last night wasn't it?
Beautiful pictures!
FLOWER POWER! x
I wish I looked like that in the morning!
The cat in the hat is back. Well, actually I had to eat my hat!
love morning glories....
Ahhhh, morning glories! Beautiful - I love them - they remind me of my darling Mum who used to grow them ........
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Storms? crikey we are lucky to have missed out on that, it's still summery here. I love those morning glories, beautiful colour although the name makes me giggle 'cos it means something a bit rude too ;-)
I have always wanted to grow morning glory. They are such fun
I have always wanted to grow morning glory. They are such fun
I have always wanted to grow morning glory. They are such fun
Would you like to expand on this Dons?
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To Dons: Well, I must be very naive - never knew Morning Glory was rude! Yes, please expand Dons. I think I can kind of guess actually but it had never crossed my mind before, thanks for that Dons. You polluter of minds you! (smiley face - still haven't worked out how to do them!)
hehehe, M said he knew about this rudenness. No surprise there. No need for "expansion" either I think.
Well, you learn something new every day!! And I just thought they were pretty flowers.
Oh good. I had a horrid feeling I was going to have to explain!
helloness! thanks for your great comment on my blog. i am so ecitied to get visitors! love the aquarian pics. the jellyfish ones are amazing. weirdos. they are really good shots. what camera do you use and howcome it was free? number 10 is effective too. they look like machines and ghosts. and no.15...? is that a disabled fish.
so exciting to meet new cool lettucey people! i will keep looking at your blog, especially as i love elderflower. thanks for dropping by!
The morning glory pics are stunning. None of the more interesting colors came up in my yard this year - just rather plain pink ones that have taken over the fence....
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