Morning Glory Heavenly Blue Plant
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.
Morning glory heavenly blue plant. To aid germination nick or cut the seed coat with a nail file and soak the seed overnight. 8 13 cm close in the afternoon hence the common name. Choose a location next to a support for the vines to climb. Here are more recommended morning glory varieties.
Heavenly blue are the classic morning glories with the rich azure blue flowers with white throats. 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. Each flower lasts only a day but others follow in quick succession. It is an herbaceous annual or perennial twining liana growing to 2 4 m 7 13 ft tall.
It is native to tropical america. Ipomoea purpurea heavenly blue is one of the most popular morning glory varieties. 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. It climbs to 15 feet.
Vine annual heirloom morning glory heavenly blue planted seed. Direct sow seeds in average soil in full sun two weeks after danger of frost has passed. Morning glory is a vigorous vine. Morning glories belong to the ipomoea genus.
Heavenly blue morning glory i. Other articles where heavenly blue morning glory is discussed. Morning glory produces new flowers daily and blooms. Synonyms ipomoea heavenly blue.
Morning glory seed has a hard seed coat. Heavenly blue morning glory. Scarlett o h ara has bright red flowers with a white throat. Interestingly morning glories belong to the same family as sweet potatoes.
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. However if you don t have time to take care of an aggressively seeding plant you might want to think twice about introducing them. Ipomoea tricolor heavenly blue. The leaves are spirally arranged 3 7 cm 1 to 3 long with a 1 5 6 cm to 2 long.
There s a staggering number of varieties in this plant s family over 1000 to be exact. Opening in the morning to reveal their white and yellow throats the flowers 3 5 in. Photo by heike loechel wikimedia commons. The difference of course being that they don t produce edible tubers.
Other common names morning glory heavenly blue. Magnificent 4 5 cheerful blooms are bright sky blue fast growing large vines with attractive heart shaped foliage.