minimum night time temperatures are meant to be 10 degrees for morning glory. I have never been successful growing them. I think they would do well in greenhouse conservatory.
I grew them successfully in large pots for several years in a small north-facing garden, training them up a teepee of canes. I started them off on the kitchen windowsill, pricking out into fibre pots and keeping them indoors until at least the beginning of June - as they were in pots I could move them about in the garden, making sure they were getting as much sunshine as possible yet putting the pot in the garden shed at night to protect from the colder night temperatures until the weather warmed up.
Go on Baza, give them another go next year - they're sooooooo worth it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When OH was in student digs in Camberwell a Morning Glory made it's way through an airbrick at the top of his bedroom wall and into his bedroom where it flowered all summer
And those dark purple ones with the star-shaped markings - fantastic
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Too cold and windy?
Or is that just in my area?
In the sticks near Peterborough
minimum night time temperatures are meant to be 10 degrees for morning glory. I have never been successful growing them. I think they would do well in greenhouse conservatory.
Thanks
Baz
Sow them direct in a sunny location. I grew the lovely blue variety a number of years ago supported by unfilled wires put up for a climbing rose.
I grew them successfully in large pots for several years in a small north-facing garden, training them up a teepee of canes. I started them off on the kitchen windowsill, pricking out into fibre pots and keeping them indoors until at least the beginning of June - as they were in pots I could move them about in the garden, making sure they were getting as much sunshine as possible yet putting the pot in the garden shed at night to protect from the colder night temperatures until the weather warmed up.
Go on Baza, give them another go next year - they're sooooooo worth it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When OH was in student digs in Camberwell a Morning Glory made it's way through an airbrick at the top of his bedroom wall and into his bedroom where it flowered all summer
And those dark purple ones with the star-shaped markings - fantastic
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My only trouble with " morning glory" is that I don't get enough of it.