Ipomoea purpurea seed
LATIN NAME: Ipomoea purpurea
COMMON NAME: Morning Glory
The morning glory is the blue trumpet of the summer dawn, and the wide, funnel-shaped flowers open with the first light and fold by the afternoon. The vigorous, twining, annual climber carries the heart-shaped leaves and the wide, funnel-shaped, sky-blue flowers with the pale throat through the summer, one of the fine, fresh sights of the early morning, to be followed by the small, brown seed capsules. The climber is a fine, bold presence of the fence, the trellis and the pot. It is a climber of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The morning glory is a bold subject of the plant science, and the funnel-shaped flowers keep showing up in the work on the flowering climbers. The way the flowers open with the dawn and fold by the afternoon has been studied at length, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the photoperiodic flowers, the twining vines and the members of the morning-glory family. The heart-shaped leaves and the vigorous, twining habit have also made it a fine garden plant, and the morning glory is a regular subject of the work on the dawn-flowering vines of the warm world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The morning glory is a fine, bold climber of the fence and the trellis. The wide, funnel-shaped, sky-blue flowers open with the first light, one of the fine, fresh sights of the summer dawn, drawing the bees and the hummingbirds, and the heart-shaped leaves cover the fence and the trellis through the season. The seeds are grown for the flowers and the curtain of the blue trumpets rather than for the table, and it is one of the fine choices for the fence, the arbour, the pot and the quick screen of the warm garden. It has been written about in the horticultural papers for the blue trumpets and the dawn ways, and it is a fine, generous climber of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.
The morning glory is one of the dawn-flowering climbers of the warm garden, and the wide, sky-blue trumpets open with the first light. The heart-shaped leaves cover the fence through the season.
To grow the morning glory from seed, sow the small, hard seeds a little below the surface of a pot of fine, free-draining soil, keep the pot in a warm, bright spot and water gently, then set the young plants out after the last frosts. The seedlings show themselves within a couple of weeks and climb fast. With the sun, the warmth and the well-drained ground, the blue trumpets will open with the dawn.
Hige Morning Glories are like little firecrackers of beauty. Each Blue Tiger Hige bursts open with split feathered petals, with occasional solid blooms. This heavy bloomer will keep your eyes popping every morning from summer to fall.