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Garden Q & A – Perennial Morning Glories

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I received a question from a visitor asking if a perennial variety of purple morning glory exists.

Convolvulus mauritanichus or Ground Morning Glory is a perennial. It’s leaves are gray-green and it has lavender blue flowers. This species of perennial morning glory blooms from June through to November.
Ipomoea acuminata, Blue Dawn, is another form of perennial morning glory. It’s a vigorous grower that would be great for banks or walls. This morning glory has dark green leaves and bright lavender blue flowers.

Lavender blue might be too light a purple shade for the reader who posed the question, However both of these plants are easy to care for perennials.

Feel free to leave me garden or plant related questions. I’d be happy to try to find the answers for you.






Garden puttering …

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I can’t believe how nice the weather has become. It’s been quite warm here in Toronto this week. Well the last few days were. Todays a little cooler at only 9 Celsius, but it did reach 19 c (66.2 F) yesterday I believe.

I didn’t get outside to do anything with the garden yet, but Chris spent some time outside on Monday. Raking the grass and picking up debris that had littered the lawn and garden beds over the winter. It’s amazing how many little scraps of paper etc get stuck in plants and on the lawn over the winter months when you live on a busy and windy street.

I think I keep waiting to feel better to get outside, but I think if I actually went outside and started puttering around in the garden the act of being out there doing stuff would make me feel better.

Maybe I will go out there and putter around for a bit. I’ll bring my pruners out. I don’t think I’ll prune the roses yet, but certainly I can begin to cut down and remove some stems from the dead top growth of the perennials.

Have any of you started to work on your garden now that Spring has arrived? If you have, what plants are beginning to grow?

Upcoming Gardening Events

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I figured that since this site is read by so many people from all over the world that when I come across an upcoming gardening event I might as well write about it on this site so that readers from those areas might attend the event.

Here’s a few events that you might be interested in attending:

Gardening conference in Gladstone – Marquette, MI

  • The 2007 Bay de Noc Gardening Conference will be offered Saturday, April 14 at Gladstone High School. Participants may attend four of 20 offered classes. This program qualifies for Master Gardener educational credit.

Grand Prairie to host butterfly gardening “how to” session, Grand Prairie, Texas

  • Thursday, March 22, at 6:00 pm, the City of Grand Prairie Public Works Training Center will offer a free “how to” class on of butterfly gardening.

Community gardening program helps disability non-profit group – Chicago, IL

  • To get in touch with Kelly and her gardeners and learn more about Chicago’s botanic garden’s horticultural therapy programs go to: www.chicagobotanic.org or contact Glenkirk at 847.272.5111 www.glenkirk.org

A list of Gardening related events in the NorthEast PA area

  • Dig It: Upcoming Gardening Events

I’ll try to write every once in a while about upcoming garden related events that I hear about through my various resources.

If you know of, or have a gardening event of your own that you’d like me to mention on this site please feel free to drop me an email or leave a comment as I’d be happy to make my readers aware of garden events and lectures that they might attend.

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