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Wow! Thanks miranda - your link had all I need to know. I didn't think of of searching on 'overwintering'. I'd also forgotten to try GardenWeb (which I bookmarked years ago in my old computer). It's now bookmarked in the new one, so thanks for that too!
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On second thoughts, I'd really like to try and find some info on how to look after the plants between growing seasons (I really don't have the time to experiment with it, especially if it would be reinventing the wheel!) Has anyone here done it, or know someone who has? I've tried more search combinations (like not making Morning Glory the 1st term), but still get thousands of irrelevant results. With most plants, I find the botanical name easier to search for, but repeating the search
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My reference books date from when conservatories weren't on the general radar. No library within reach, and I can't seem to get the right keywords to search on! (A pointer to a relevant web page would probably do the trick). I've been growing Morning Glory (Ipomaea tricolor) in the conservatory as an annual. This year, having now got satisfactory arrangements for the plants, I'd like to just leave them in their containers over the winter (and not move the containers either). Would
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Many thanks miranda! I wasn't aware of the 'indica' name. I guess it's the later, more correct one (I knew it as I. acuminata or I. tricolor). Seed companies don't seem to be as specific as they used to (do they think it would frighten off the modern customer?). Anyway, your first link confimed that leaving mine in for next year is worth a try. If I don't find further info about culture, I'll try cutting them down (once died off) almost to the base where they grow new
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Mystery solved! An image search on the botanical name had only yielded a few photos that didn't help with this (plus some wrongly named pics I suspect). But a 'California Bluebell' search was more fruitful (I guess it's one of the less ambiguous common names). The photos still didn't help much, but a drawing did (I often find them more helpful than photos, with everything being deliberate). What's more, it was of a seedling at the same stage as mine (2 or 3 pairs of leaves
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Aka 'California Bluebell'; an annual from the south California desert, fully hardy to half hardy (depending on who's writing). Has anyone here grown them from seed, or otherwise seen young seedlings of it? All the (circa 5mm) seed-leaves of my new plants, from first emerging, have a scattering of brown (nearly black) spots, about the size of pencil dotting and similarly random (except for a tendency towards a circle near the leaf edge). No markings/blemishes on the undersides. The next
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Does anyone else sow sweet peas in toilet-roll tubes (or is that just the long shadow of an Austerity childhood)? I pack them in a container to stop them falling over/apart and, when planting out, the tube will just peel off in a spiral. It also saves wasting compost with unneccessarily wide pots. It was inspired by an item on Gardeners World or similar, about sowing sweet peas in a tailor-made new product 'the shape of a toilet-roll tube'.....
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