It is a Morning Glory. I like them myself, but some people consider it invasive. They seed themselves in the fall and spread easily. Can start vine’ing and cover a lot of ground (or an entire porch rail) over a summer.
christes
If it were white, I would tell you to burn it with fire. I’ve got some bindweed PTSD.
timmbuck22
You will *not* get bindweed from this. Related plants but still completely different. Beautiful flowers though!
MaxillaryOvipositor
You can take the seeds from the pod the flower leaves behind after it dries out. Sow it in late fall and it should sprout in the spring
This is a morning glory. I love them. I grow them on tomato cages, or a few large branches I set against the front of my house (they twisted thier way up and down them and it’s really pretty!), never had to buy a seed, they just *showed up* a few years ago and I decided to try to control them a bit, instead of letting them choke out my other flowers. They’ll do that, quickly!
That purple flower will fall off and leave behind a white pod. I’ve noticed there are usually three flowers on one stem, then three pods left behind. The pods will have up to 6 seeds inside them. If you pull the pods off while they’re still white, wait for them to turn brown and crunchy (in a paper bag so it can dry out) then you’ll be able to crackle out the big black seeds. Every flower makes a pod, at least in my yard. That’s why they spread like crazy I guess. I’ve collected hundreds of pods in the last few weeks bc I like separating the seeds in my free time. Maybe that’s weird? It’s fun. I don’t plan on planting all of them so it’s probably a waste of time, but I don’t want several hundred seeds sprouting on the hollyhock side of my garden… I’m going to see how many sprout from the pods I missed and go from there.
UnicornCalmerDowner
These are Morning Glory and personally, I love them. I live in zone 9b though so they definitely die off here by winter and I have to work at keeping them around. They look really pretty growing up a Mammoth Sunflower stalk – I plant a line of them across the perimeter front of my garden. The deer where I live LOVE to eat the Morning Glory if they can, pretty sure it gets them high in some way.
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It is a Morning Glory.
I like them myself, but some people consider it invasive.
They seed themselves in the fall and spread easily. Can start vine’ing and cover a lot of ground (or an entire porch rail) over a summer.
If it were white, I would tell you to burn it with fire. I’ve got some bindweed PTSD.
You will *not* get bindweed from this. Related plants but still completely different. Beautiful flowers though!
You can take the seeds from the pod the flower leaves behind after it dries out. Sow it in late fall and it should sprout in the spring
The variety is Grandpa Ott’s
This will kill your plants and trees
Morning glory. 😀
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This is a morning glory. I love them. I grow them on tomato cages, or a few large branches I set against the front of my house (they twisted thier way up and down them and it’s really pretty!), never had to buy a seed, they just *showed up* a few years ago and I decided to try to control them a bit, instead of letting them choke out my other flowers. They’ll do that, quickly!
That purple flower will fall off and leave behind a white pod. I’ve noticed there are usually three flowers on one stem, then three pods left behind. The pods will have up to 6 seeds inside them. If you pull the pods off while they’re still white, wait for them to turn brown and crunchy (in a paper bag so it can dry out) then you’ll be able to crackle out the big black seeds. Every flower makes a pod, at least in my yard. That’s why they spread like crazy I guess. I’ve collected hundreds of pods in the last few weeks bc I like separating the seeds in my free time. Maybe that’s weird? It’s fun. I don’t plan on planting all of them so it’s probably a waste of time, but I don’t want several hundred seeds sprouting on the hollyhock side of my garden… I’m going to see how many sprout from the pods I missed and go from there.
These are Morning Glory and personally, I love them. I live in zone 9b though so they definitely die off here by winter and I have to work at keeping them around. They look really pretty growing up a Mammoth Sunflower stalk – I plant a line of them across the perimeter front of my garden. The deer where I live LOVE to eat the Morning Glory if they can, pretty sure it gets them high in some way.