{"id":8202,"date":"2016-07-29T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T22:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8202"},"modified":"2016-07-18T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T10:23:37","slug":"growing-ipomea-morning-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-ipomea-morning-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Growing Ipomea &#8211; Morning Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ipomea\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4834944556\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4083\/4834944556_59dd42e762.jpg\" alt=\"ipomea\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ipomea indica the blue form of Morning Glory is a cool clear blue, a startling colour in the garden. As you would expect from a member of the Convolvulous clan it is a strong twisting and binding climber.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Morning Glory<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plant was originally used to produce cloth die.<\/li>\n<li>The seeds should not be eaten as they produce hallucinations<\/li>\n<li>In the garden they are very good for screening walls and ugly sites during summer.<\/li>\n<li>They do not last as cut flowers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Morning glory by Arenamontanus, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arenamontanus\/2765728583\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3102\/2765728583_c5d143a7e2.jpg\" alt=\"Morning glory\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Growing Ipomea Morning Glory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grow from seed and collect your own seed for next year.<\/li>\n<li>Pick off dead leaves.<\/li>\n<li>Try some of the other colours including rose and red plants.<\/li>\n<li>Do not allow white Convolulous to grow as it spreads and throttles other plants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"ipomea \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4834335053\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4154\/4834335053_852e144a4d.jpg\" alt=\"ipomea\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=morning=&amp;lbc=thompson-morgan&amp;uid=557154991&amp;ts=custom&amp;w=Pansy&amp;af=&amp;isort=score&amp;method=and&amp;view=plaintext&amp;cnt=300\">Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a> search for Morning Glory seeds and plants<\/li>\n<li>Morning Glory &#8216;Carnevale di Venezia&#8217; Ipomoea purpurea, Convolvulus purpureus,<\/li>\n<li>A half-hardy annual which climbs to 6&#8242; tall and flowers through summer with striped blue and pink blooms with intricate markings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Credits<\/strong><br \/>\nMorning glory by Arenamontanus CC BY 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Glory or Ipomea are vigorous plants that  flower all summer Good for climbing up trellis, fences or obelisks in containers. Prefers a sunny, sheltered, warm site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}