Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Seeds
I planted a few seeds on Monday. Three kinds of morning glories, and mixed Pastel Carpet Alyssum. I don't see alyssum being widely-grown lately, but it's just the thing for early spring. It can take cold temperatures, maybe even a light frost, and it's pleasantly fragrant. It will fizzle when the weather gets hot, but by then we'll be interested in something flashier anyway.
But back to the morning glories. I've admired Japanese morning glories ever since growing 'Blue Silk' one year. Huge, pale blue flowers with a white picotee edge. They were so beautiful. Unfortunately, Park Seeds stopped offering them. I tried 'Mt. Fuji' mix from them a couple of years ago, and they were OK, but I still like 'Blue Silk' better. So this year I found some Japanese morning glory seeds the modern way - on eBay. I have my doubts about whether these will come true from the seed I bought, because the seller saved the seed from her own garden, but I'm eager to see whatever grows. I planted 'Fujimusume', 'Hatsu Arashi', and 'Milky Way'.
And the alyssum has begun to germinate already.
2 Comments:
I grew Mt. Fujis a couple years ago. Really liked the deep maroons.
Mostly now I just have leftovers from some that somebody must've grown years before. They still come up everywhere, and if I miss some of them (which I do) the reseed again all over the place!
My Mt. Fuji seedlings were mostly light pink. I had one deep blue one that I liked enough to use as my computer desktop background. Maroon would have been nice. I was trying to get them to twine their way around some Cosmos 'Versailles Mix', and/or some Cleome 'White Queen'.
And I planted some 'Star of Yelta' morning glories one year, and now I have them every year without doing a thing except pulling out the ones I don't want. Not sure if this is a blessing or a curse.
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