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What’s this plant?

mchuamchua Posts: 210
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Hi, does anyone know what this is called?

Thanks

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Looks like Ipoemea purpurea… Morning Glory

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited September 2021
    It's an Ipomea (common name Morning Glory.)  Looks like it might be from seeds of Ipomea 'Black Knight'

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • mchuamchua Posts: 210
    Thank you 🙏 
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    If you can collect seeds and sow them next year to continue the flowering season.
    Keep the seeds in a dry place (old envelope) and sow them either indoors to plant out or directly sow when the weather is frost free (May?).
    This is what we do and we have had a fabulous flowering display and I will be collecting seeds again.
    Ones that I don't collect though don't appear to germinate the next year in the same area.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    BobTheGardener said:
    It's an Ipomea (common name Morning Glory.)  Looks like it might be from seeds of Ipomea 'Black Knight'


    The variety "Grandpa Ott" is similar as well. Mine self-sowed from last year.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I grow Blk. Knight and I'd say they're much darker than the photo, but purples can be variable in photos.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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