Morning glory trellis

Happy Sunday to you all! As we were leaving for breakfast this morning ... I noticed how many beautiful Morning Glories were in bloom and thought I'd share them with you. KEEP IN MIND ... I did NOT plant any of these plants ... the birds & Mother Nature took care of that for me! ONE WEEK LATER Yes ... I planted the Petunia pot ... but did NOT plant the Morning Glory Pot. It was sitting empty near the rose bush where a couple Morning Glories showed up last year and evidently seeds dropped…

Are Morning Glories friend or foe in your garden? Here are the pros and cons to planting them and how to keep them in line, so you can enjoy their lovely blooms.

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Morning Glory vines are frost-tender, perennial climbing vines and beautiful flowers that quickly overtake a trellis. This vine grows well from seed, and you can grow it in a container. Bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators are drawn to these striking flowers. Learn how to grow morning glory vine and add it to your garden.

I am ever-mindful of how blessed my sons are to have been born and live out here in the wide open rural countryside of upstate New York. They have not grown up in the squalid realms of a packed suburban housing development, as I did. Neither have they suffered the pains of divorced parents and all of that, as I did. And, being homeschooled from the beginning, they have not been institutionalized by years of government schooling. Furthermore, within this God-fearing, home-centered, agrarian…

Morning glory flowers, which are funnel-shaped, open in the morning. The flower typically lasts for a single morning and dies in the afternoon. New flowers bloom each day. The flowers usually start to fade a couple of hours before the petals start showing visible curling. They prefer full sun throughout the day, and mesic soils. In cultivation, most are treated as perennial plants in tropical areas, and as annual plants in colder climates, but some species tolerate winter cold.

Flowering vines give an old-time fairy-tale look to homes and gardens