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Flowers: Early to Mid-Summer
Height: 20 inches
Ideal For: Bedding, Border, Cottage Garden, Ground Cover
Germination: Easy
Aftercare: Easy
Description
One of the best garden Morning Glories in a range of four colours, including the fabulous carmine-red with a yellow eye and radiating white throat. Well branched plants produce many 2in flowers and their spreading habit makes them excellent for ground cover, borders, baskets and containers. Also offered as separate colours.
Sowing Instructions
Sow in early spring 3mm (1/8in) deep at 21-27C (70-80F) in a good seed compost. Soaking the seed for 2 hours in cold water before sowing is helpful. Keep the soil damp but not wet, sealing in a polythene bag after sowing is helpful. Germination usually takes 5-14 days.
Growing Instructions
When seedlings are large enough to handle, transplant into 7.5cm (3in) pots and grow on in cooler conditions for 10-15 days before planting out after all risk of frost 15-23cm (6-9in) apart in a sunny spot on light well drained soil. They can also be sown where they are to flower during late spring and thinned out to required distance.
Caution
Seeds are very poisonous
Apr 28, 2007
put in baggies today to germ
Apr 30, 2007
sown inside today
Jul 8, 2007
ok, not sure what has survived and what hasn't out there- badly labeled to begin with, and my knowledge of leaves is pretty minimal
the sun got most of these anyway- the hardy ones lived (go nasturium, marigolds, geraniums and morning glories- well outside morning glories lived, inside ones all croaked)
