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Wake Up to Morning Glories!
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Morning Glories are beguiling, old-fashioned annual vines. Sow them directly into your garden, and before you know it, an abundance of big, heart-shape leaves on quickly twining vines will spring forth. Come early summer, and on through the rest of the season, you'll be greeted
each morning
by cheerful, large and trumpet-shaped, colorful flowers that last only until mid-day or early afternoon before making way for the next morning's crop of floral charm. Butterflies and hummingbirds love Morning Glories, and will join you in hovering about their blooms, sipping their nectar as you sip your morning coffee. So sweet!
While you can start these nostalgic beauties indoors, it's even easier to pop the seeds into the ground exactly where you'd like them to grow.
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This tall, flowering vine may be direct-sown after your last frost date (find your last frost date
HERE). Prior to planting, carefully nick the hard seed coat and/or soak the seeds overnight. Then, sow them where there are to grow. Once the seedlings have emerged, thin them to a spacing of 6" to 8" apart.
Water moderately, as
Morning Glories prefer drier conditions. Only fertilize lightly, as soil that is too rich will encourage lots of leaves but few blooms.
Morning Glories require a trellis, fence, string, lamp post or mailbox post to support their long, climbing vines and profuse flowers. They will grow up to a whopping 12 feet tall.
TIP:
If you're looking for a trellis on which to grow an annual vine, consider a sturdy, well-established climbing rose. The thorny canes provide excellent support, and won't mind a little competition. The vines will come into their glory later in the season, adding color to a rose that has finished its main flush of bloom.
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The classic Morning Glory circa 1930, it has 3" to 4", shimmering light sky-blue flowers.
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Ipomoea purpurea. This heirloom has purple blossoms with dark purple stars and pink throats.
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This beauty has large deep lavender-pink flowers with a paler pink star. Its flowers are 3" to 4".
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Circa 1942, Pearly Gates has graceful 3" to 4", pristine white flowers.
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A prized heirloom circa 1939, Scarlet O'Hara has elegant, 6" wide, dark crimson flowers.
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A 1960 hybrid, Flying Saucers has unique, 4" white flowers with tie-died blue stripes.
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New! Be amazed by this rare variety's huge white flowers with pink centers and variable purple-blue streaks and stripes.
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New! Venice Blue's sister flaunts bright white 4" flowers streaked and striped in hot pink and deep purple.
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Our heavenly Milky Way mixture will yield a colorful swath of trellised blue, white and blue and white bicolor blooms. It includes Heavenly Blue, Pearly Gates, Flying Saucers and Blue Star (white with a blue star).
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New! Ipomoea nil. Only recently available in the U.S., this stunning mixture of 4" to 5" Japanese Morning Glories are all shades of pink to blue to purple with striking white pinwheels and rims with deeply cut, serrated green foliage.
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Spice Up the
Evening Garden, Too
Morning Glory flowers last only one morning each, giving gardeners something wonderful to wake up to, but what about plants for the evening? Wind down your day in the garden with these plants that flaunt brilliant white flowers that glow in low light.
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Cosmos bipinnatus. This lovely, tall Cosmos has 4" to 6" wide, pure snow-white flowers with yellow centers and fine yet vigorous, thread-like foliage. Height: 3' to 5'.
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White Queen illuminates moon gardens with large, airy flowers. We particularly adore White Queen paired with Blue Victoria Salvia and planted throughout blue-green foliage gardens.
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Zinnia elegans.
This old-fashioned annual is easy to grow and is considered a standard in summer bouquets and gardens. This g
listening white variety glows.
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Myosotis sylvatica. White Forget-Me-Nots yield carpets of ankle-deep flowers. Perfect for garden borders and sweet little terrace pots, they're easy to grow and may self-seed.
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Cosmos bipinnatus. A mixture of semi-double and single 4" flowers, it is glistening snow white with yellow centers and fern-like green foliage. Height: 3' to 4 1/2'.
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Old-fashioned Baby's Breath is prized in summer bouquets as a delicate, airy filler with petite, white, double flowers about 1 centimeter in diameter on upright foliage. HZ: 3-8.
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Ipomoea alba. This bright white Morning Glory sibling is a prized, night-blooming heirloom that will scramble up supportive structures for a most addictive, jasmine-scented evening curtain. Swoon-worthy!
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New! Ammi majus. If you love wild Queen Anne's Lace, you'll adore Lace Flower. It's a distant cousin that is more suited to the garden, with stout stems of lacy, feathery foliage topped with domes of tiny white flowers.
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New! As the sun goes down, its tiny burgundy buds open to reveal starry white blooms that glow in the moonlight. Sweet and intoxicating, its intense honey and vanilla fragrance floats on the breeze.
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Mother's Day is Sunday, May 14th!
In a way, gardening is a form of mothering. You plant a seed, watch over it until it sprouts, feed and water it lovingly until it begins to flourish on its own and then step back to watch it expand into full and glorious bloom. This year, instead of a bouquet of flowers, treat yourself or the mother in your life to a garden full of bouquets with our Magical Mother's Day Easy Direct-Sow Flower Garden. This special collection is comprised of five timeless and beloved annuals that can be sown directly into your garden.The collection includes (clockwise from top right):
Until Mother's Day, get this special collection for $13.95, 23% off individual prices, with FREE SHIPPING AND HANDLING. Snag yours HERE. Order by Wednesday, May 10th to guarantee delivery before Mother's Day!
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