Are Morning Glories invasive?
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Are Morning Glories invasive?
Hi Everyone,
I'm a newbie here, so hope this isnt a dumb question. I've been buying seeds galore and have bought several packs of morning glories. I've heard from some that they can be invasive and others say no problem with them at all. I plan to grow some in a container. Are there some varieties that aren't invasive? The flowers are just beautiful and I couldnt resist.
Also, I was thinking if they weren't invasive, I would plant them in my garden. Is that a bad idea? Also, do hummingbirds like these flowers? Thanks so much, DD[/b]
I'm a newbie here, so hope this isnt a dumb question. I've been buying seeds galore and have bought several packs of morning glories. I've heard from some that they can be invasive and others say no problem with them at all. I plan to grow some in a container. Are there some varieties that aren't invasive? The flowers are just beautiful and I couldnt resist.
Also, I was thinking if they weren't invasive, I would plant them in my garden. Is that a bad idea? Also, do hummingbirds like these flowers? Thanks so much, DD[/b]
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Do not know your zone, but OED and Karma are in diffent zones and both tells you they can be invasive.
Try to grow them in pots or in a special area where you can cut them down in the fall and get rid of them. If they come back in the spring it is easy to clean that area and plant in it after it is cleaned... at that time you know if you can leave a few to flower
Pia
Do not know your zone, but OED and Karma are in diffent zones and both tells you they can be invasive.
Try to grow them in pots or in a special area where you can cut them down in the fall and get rid of them. If they come back in the spring it is easy to clean that area and plant in it after it is cleaned... at that time you know if you can leave a few to flower
Pia
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I love morning glories too!!! I've never had a problem with them being invasive.....they grow nicely in my poor clay soil. I have much better luck seeding them directly in the soil than transplanting them from cell packs......p
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I could never get seed to grow outside so I bought plants last year and they were fantastic! Heres' mine
And I'm in zone 5 too. This was middle of june maybe, they flowered all summer till the first hard frost. Even a light frost they were still blooming
And I'm in zone 5 too. This was middle of june maybe, they flowered all summer till the first hard frost. Even a light frost they were still blooming
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Last years work fundraiser we soaked overnight the seeds on the L side of the photo and they flew off the table like wind fire. It makes me want to germinate but If I start these little twisters too early they'll be a tangled mess. I found my seeds at fleet farm and they will jazz the sunloving fences in a blaze of a.m. color. Maybe this year I'll capture the kodak moment, watching the hummingbirds feed. I'm psyched for summer. Later, Love, Lisa
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O.C. has a question on Morning glories
He got a package of them free with some seed he had ordered and would like to plant them as his dslw thinks they are so pretty. Do they need to be planted in Sun or Shade ??? O.C. has two perfect places to plant them One of each. Which should he choose. (He prefers the shade as there is less fence there and they would be real pretty, but he can plant them just as well either place>)
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O.C. not positive on this, but seeing as how you are way more south than I, I have to tell you about those in the picture on my post above. There are 2-3 plants ( I think was eating soon after planting) and they grew up inside that cover for about 5 feet. All the while in the shade, but bloomed in there also! We had blooms till after the first frost b/c they were so thick. Had I planted them sooner, they might have grown longer!
I'd put one-three in each area and see how they do. If they get overly abundant, cut one out, simple to do They are fast and beautiful when they like their settings. Under them was growing a clem that is all but a foot tall with several leads this year! I am so excited as mine have always take 3 years to grow, so I think these provider the shade they need to get roots growing
Make sure you take pics!
I'd put one-three in each area and see how they do. If they get overly abundant, cut one out, simple to do They are fast and beautiful when they like their settings. Under them was growing a clem that is all but a foot tall with several leads this year! I am so excited as mine have always take 3 years to grow, so I think these provider the shade they need to get roots growing
Make sure you take pics!
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YES!!! I had Grandpa Ott's and Milky Way one year, and every one of the thousands of seeds survived a zone 6/7 winter and sent up seedlings year after year. As mentioned above, the very desirable Japanese ones do not enjoy a long enough season to set seeds (sometimes not even flowers).
But, they are easy enough to weed out if kept after. I may have conquered them...but I doubt it.
I think the ones with the worst reputation around here are the wild ones called bindweed, in the same family.
But, they are easy enough to weed out if kept after. I may have conquered them...but I doubt it.
I think the ones with the worst reputation around here are the wild ones called bindweed, in the same family.
Will do
Thank you vury much, said Elvi. O.C. has then decide to put them out by the fence. Ir's Partial Shade (gets some morning sun) so Joy can see them from the Sun Deck, where she sits to read. It is a chain link fence all by it self, so should do jsut fine there.
Once again thank you
John
Once again thank you
John
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I live in zone 5 and last yr was my first yr planting them...I planted them next to my back deck...and let them grow up the side...I was only annoyed one time when they entwined themselves around and in my bbq grill...but it was not enough to keep from planting them again this yr...I love them...I think if you just watch them and make them grow in a fashionally order you will love them....
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Here's a cute idea for you if you have little ones. If you have an area where you can do it, plant Mammoth Sunflower seeds a few inches apart to form 3 parts of a square about 4 ft. on each side. Around each sunflower seed, plant 4 Morning Glory Seeds. As the Sunflowers grow up the Morning Glories will also grow and twine around the Sunflowers. When the Sunflowers reach their height take garden twine and make a spiders web among the tops of the sunflowers to make a "roof" on your little Sunflower house. The Morning Glories will grow along the twine. It turns out pretty cute and except for the bees my kids loved having their own little house.