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I planted a few seeds from a packet of assorted morning glories in the garden at the edge of the deck, and as they grew Joe strung heavy twine up to the top of the screen porch for them to grow on. The porch has a canvas roof that we remove in winter, and we haven't needed to secure it yet this season.
But when the morning glories reached roof level, they came inside rather than slither up the roof. And bloomed. We had a magenta evening glory last night.
Fortunately, they don't like the monofilament fishing line from which we've hung bright cloths from clothespins that slide across the screens, for shade and silhouetted privacy at night, or else we'd really have had a problem with them. One set off along the far roof support, and we've twined it along the aluminum tube, but it really wants to climb up. We don't want to encourage this -- and don't think they'll thrive in there -- but they're happy for now and we have no alternative to offer them.
Below, the classic Heavenly Blue finally bloomed. Some years, they've waited till September.
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Sheila,
I love your Morning Glory. How nice that you have the Evening Glory as well!
Some of mine, in the cold or cool weather, became the Afternoon Glory and one year I was able to bring some young plant to grow and bloom in door, which lasted a while.
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This is maybe a duplicate, my Internet connection went down when I was posting before.
I used to have kiwi vines growing along the side of my garage in California, and when they got to the top of the garage wall, where there was a vent, they grew into the garage instead of across the roof. What's with that? Why would a vine want to grow into a semi-dark garage instead of across a roof.
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After reading about so much death and destruction, it was so nice to see that someone would post a story about their morning glories and that two other people would respond with vine stories of their own. It gives me hope in the world.
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Thanks, Kathleen.
I'm famous in the newsroom for grumbling about all the "murder and mayhem" that passes for news. Most of it doesn't touch our lives. It's why I fled the news desk for Features all those years ago, before projo.com was ever foreseen.
Got vines?
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Karen, they do seem to be blind. They probably had something to hold onto in that vent. I've tried to encourage these to twine horizontally along a bar, but they seem to resent it. They want to bang against the porch roof till they flop down.
Pat, I'm not an obsessive gardener. Small quirky things like this make me happy.
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