Morning Glory Heavenly Blue Flower

These are fairly dependable bloomers and self sowers with vines that can reach as high as 12 feet.

Morning glory heavenly blue flower. The leaves are spirally arranged 3 7 cm 1 to 3 long with a 1 5 6 cm to 2 long. Direct sow seeds in average soil in full sun two weeks after danger of frost has passed. Heavenly blue are the classic morning glories with the rich azure blue flowers with white throats. Morning glory produces new flowers daily and blooms.

Its buds are long and tightly furled but as the morning sunshine reaches them they steadily unfold themselves into large sky blue trumpets with clear white and yellow throats. It is an herbaceous annual or perennial twining liana growing to 2 4 m 7 13 ft tall. To aid germination nick or cut the seed coat with a nail file and soak the seed overnight. This morning glory cultivar has classic sky blue flowers with white throats.

Sweet potato vine often grown as a foliage plant hallucinogenic poisonous. Photo by heike loechel wikimedia commons. Here are more recommended morning glory varieties. To 12 feet tall 3 to 6 feet wide.

A highly popular variety of morning glory award winning ipomoea tricolor heavenly blue is a lovely annual vine with large heart shaped leaves and vibrant azure blue trumpet shaped flowers. Moonflower white color ipomoea x multifida. It climbs to 12 feet. Violacea a twining perennial vine usually cultivated as a garden annual bears clusters of blue to purplish sometimes white flowers 12 cm 4 7 inches across among heart shaped leaves.

Other articles where heavenly blue morning glory is discussed. Summer year round in tropics. Morning glory is a vigorous vine. Choose a location next to a support for the vines to climb.

It is native to tropical america. Morning glory seed has a hard seed coat. Annual perennial in zones 9 11 or areas over 45 f. Several useful vines besides heavenly blue morning glory flowers bear the genus name ipomoea including.

Scarlett o h ara has bright red flowers with a white throat. Ipomoea aquatica known as water spinach water morning glory water convolvulus ong choy kang kung or swamp cabbage is popularly used as a green vegetable especially in east and southeast asian cuisines in the usa ipomoea aquatica is a federal noxious weed and can be illegal to grow import possess or sell without a permit however a market exists for the plant s powerful culinary. Ipomoea purpurea heavenly blue is one of the most popular morning glory varieties. Heavenly blue ipomoea tricolor.

Ipomoea tricolor the mexican morning glory or just morning glory is a species of flowering plant in the family convolvulaceae native to the new world tropics and widely cultivated and naturalised elsewhere. Blue purple flower with white throat yellow center. Opening in the morning to reveal their white and yellow throats the flowers 3 5 in. Heavenly blue morning glory.

Cardinal climber red color ipomoea batatas. It climbs to 15 feet. Each flower lasts only a day but others follow in quick succession. I m fairly certain this is the variety i brought home with me.