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| Garden Layout - Plants - Ipomoea
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| I'm a newcomer to these plants, Ipomoea, or Morning Glories, but I will definitely be growing them again. I planted individual varieties in 150mm pots and placed them at the base of some of the vertical structures in the garden, for them to find their own way upwards. I assume they are called Morning Glories because they are at their best in the morning, and, on the good days of summer, the flowers are crumpled, withered and finished. |
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 Heavenly Blue in the early morning. |
This one is 'Heavenly Blue'. It has large pale blue flowers, up to 100mm in diameter with a pale yellow centre. It grew to a maximum height of 1.8m by clambering up through the jasmine on the wall of the house, and flowered most intensely during prolonged hot, dry spells. The flowers darken as the day progresses, and by late afternoon have changed to a shade of lilac. |
| Cardinal, as the name suggests, is red, but a cerise-red rather than what I would call a cardinal red. These flowers are smaller than those of Heavenly Blue, at around 50-75mm diameter, and they too scrambled through the jasmine, and amongst the ivies of the western trellis. Perhaps it was because that spot gets less sun, but this variety never got above 1.5m high, and that was only one plant. The rest struggled to reach 1.2m. |  Ipomoea Cardinal |
 Scarlett O'Hara |
And finally, this little beauty is Scarlett O'Hara. I only managed to keep a single specimen of this variety, and that produced a small plant barely 450mm high, that entwined itself around the stem of the honeysuckle, Lonicera Dropsmore Scarlet, growing against the fence in the patio bed. The foliage is a glossy, dark green and deeply cut, unlike the heart-shaped leaves of the other two varieties, and the flowers are much smaller, at only 25mm in diameter, but they are stunning. |
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