A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2006 Morning Glory

Ok..here is a bit of a problem..i was told these things spread at very rapid rates..well how rapid..when will it bloom? I need it to do so now..ughhhhhhh..it's been in the ground for about 4 weeks..nothing magnificant has happened..any suggestions

they never grow as fast when you want them to as they do when you don't but, seriously, it all depends on so many factors, it will be a while before you see the results the way you want them. maybe a whole season.

I have them growing wild in my garden, once started they are hard to get rid of.

I am going to try some full strength Roundup applied with a cotton swab, to the leaves.

I've never had that problem with them, but maybe that's because I'm in zone 5 and they die off in the winter. I would be thrilled to keep them going.

Now these are annuals right? That you have growing wild? Cause I thought they would go away and i would have to replant them every year? I am putting a lattice fence up this year (hopefully) around my whole yard. I found a sight with a really need lattice fence, and thought i'd go with that to provide privacy since they built a school in my back yard..thought i would start with morning glories all the way around..and start perennials, but perennials take awhile to grow to their full potential. any suggestions..maybe some more fast growing vines?

They are for me langford! I don't know where you live in Indiana, but I'm thinking they may be for you too. I'm near the St. Louis area.

morning glories do wonderful on a fence, and sure are lovley to look at.
I feel they are better left somepleace where you will never plant anything..
but if you ever plan on planting something else in there space, don't try it..
the Morning glories will take over everything, and leaving seeds from last year, they will make a come back for yeras to come.

Lankford, I love Honeysuckle or some critters are eating my seeds because my pick ones never did come back, so I finally planted Clematis in that spot.

My morning glories in Indiana never did come back year to year. I have some morning glories that have vined beautiful but have not sported a single bloom as of yet. I checked on them today and they have a ton of buds so I am just waiting on the beauty should be any day now. They have been in the ground since early march. I have some Japanese morning glories that have had a few blooms. I planted some bushy type morning glories they have bloomed in the last week or so.

I never would have thought MGs would come back, but this year I have tons of volunteer MGs. I hate to pull them because they are a plant not a weed, but yet they aren't close to the trellis and I already planted some there. I am debating just letting the volunteers grow all over as a ground cover. This is zone 4 on the south side of a brick building. I have never seen this happen around here before with such a tender annual. I often have had violas, bachelor buttons, alyssum, Cal. poppies seed themselves.

What zone in Indiana?

Last yr. I had a wild MG type leaf plant vining up my archway. Since it looked like a MG and grew faster I let it go. It got very thick but the flowers were not at all like a MG. At the end of summer I had a time pulling the vines down. Now this yr. They are everywhere. Climbing up other plants. Don't know what it is but I wish I didn't keep it last yr.
I found a red MG. Can't wait to see it.
Diane

I'm wondering what zone you were in when you lived in Indiana? It appears most of the morning glories are treated as perennials in the warmer climates, but as annuals in the colder climates, although there are some species which will tolerate the cold winter weather. I guess that means I didn't have the right species because mine never did come back.

Maybe they don't come back in colder climates. I made the mistake of planting some to climb up a feeder and now I can't get rid of them.

I was in west central Indiana never once did I have them come back. I planted them every year too. Once I got the seeds going they were beautiful.

Yes, Karrie, they are really beautiful once they start blooming. What color did you have? I've only had the bright pink ones, but one of my friends always plants blue ones to grow up her trellis. They are very pretty too!

I forgot what colors i bought, i thought a purple as well..but mine aren't vining well at all..nor are there any buds as if they are going to flower anytime soon, really irritation me..ya know? i was hoping they would take over..hehe

I'm in zone 4/5 and mine don't bloom until late summer into fall. We enjoy them at the bus stop every morning, the kids love them!

This year I planted some called flying saucers they are more of a bushing type, and simply beautiful. In Indiana I had pink and purple and also a shade of blue. Lets see if I can post a pic I took of a flying saucer bloom that hubby cut off by accident. It was the first bloom and he brought it in to me after he cut it off so I could see it. It was the first bloom on it.

pic of my JMG



pic of the flying saucer MG

That flying saucer is really cute. I like it. Hope you get lots of seeds off of it.

Karrie, that is beautiful! I especially like the pink canter.

I hope the flying saucer seeds well too. Its in a spot that needs tons of ground coverage. My son just threw the packet of seeds and we just raked them around a bit. HE thinks the star in the center is something else.

Well let's be clear; they don't come back, they seed themselves. They are a tender annual and don't survive through winter but they can seed themselves. But maybe when they do not do it they are not blooming enough or have inhospitable soil for germinating. If you have deep mulch or use preen (I do both of these and still they seeded themselves) they maybe cannot return.

Tamara, I know the pink ones I had were annuals and don't come back or survive the winter, but mine never did seed themselves either. I always had to buy new seeds to plant every year.

Well, I don't have the area mulched and I never use preen or anything like that. I know it's not the soil because I have ammended the soil in my garden beds and have it tested regularly, so it is almost like "Black Gold"! I really think it's some of the critters around here that are the root of the problem. Perhaps they are eating the seeds and getting high on them!

I can't get rid of these things!
Morning glories are beautiful, they attract humming birds, but be very careful to only plant them somewhere that you'll never want to grow anything else. In the south, they drop thousands of seeds, which all come up (like the seed from last year's tomato drops) there is also perennial varieties of morning glory, and something called bindweed.