Monday, October 26, 2020

Still Bloomin'

With milder than normal temperatures, these few early weeks of Autumn, the Morning Glory vines are still blooming their little hearts out.

This Grandpa Ott variety, returns year after year, without any help from the gardener.
The vines wrap their tendrils around the weathered-wood fence, and grace us with beauty, all summer long.

The flowers are a sumptuous Royal Blue trumpet with a contrasting purple star.
A strikingly beautiful combination.
Not quite the Autumn palette, yet nevertheless, we'll enjoy their presence until the first freeze of the season, and then it's " show-over ".


 

  


13 comments:

Rian said...

Jo, I love morning glories... especially the blue ones. We used to have them climbing up our country mailbox. I'd like to do that again. Thanks for the pics!

Lowcarb team member said...

What a fabulous colour this is :)

All the best Jan

Rustic Pumpkin said...

What beautiful photos these are.

happyone said...

Just beautiful!! Just came from reading another blog and they had 6 inches of snow! Nice to see pretty flowers yet here.

DJan said...

That last picture is stunning. I also love morning glories, even though they proliferate and are hard to tame. :-)

Yvonne said...

It's a little too aggressive for my small space, but it's a beauty. Your photos of it are beautiful.

The Great Ethan Allen said...

very pretty! Must be nice being below that snow belt. IT seems the snow is dipping further south this year.

Winifred said...

What a gorgeous flower. I've never seen it in the UK & it looks a bit like the white convolvulus we have which grows wild.

Just looked it up and you can buy them here never seen them anywhere to buy so will look online. I absolutely love blue flowers so thanks for this.

Edna B said...

Simply beautiful! I love Morning Glories. My eldest daughter lives in Virginia and these gorgeous flowers seem to grow everywhere. Yours are such a beautiful color. Enjoy them, hugs, Edna B.

Anita said...

Beautiful colour of the plant.Strange it is blooming now in autumm

Many beautiful photoes at you blog.A dear one there is too :) xxx

Stay safe and good Jo!

A Brit in Tennessee said...

Anita: Southern weather in Autumn is still very mild, until the first freeze, today for example it is warm with a temperature of 70 degrees F.
My Geraniums are prettier right now, than they were all summer long, where the heat can be oppressively hot.
Stay well.
~Jo

Louca por porcelana said...

WOW!

L. D. said...

Mine finally stopped blooming as the water in the birdbath did freeze hard. I had a great set of blooms just like yours.