I admire in my flower garden an unusual liana of the Vyunkovy family - the morning glory of Mina Lobat. The shoots of this annual reach a length of 3 m or more.
The culture blooms from mid-summer to October. Many original oblong (15-20 cm) yellow-red inflorescences resemble either bananas or parrots in shape. During the season, like chameleons, they gradually change color from red to orange, yellow and cream - a real fireworks display! Or a round dance of parrots!

Lover of "tasty"
I grow morning glory through seedlings, sowing in March. I move to open ground in early May at a temperature of at least +20 degrees. I have been preparing the soil since the fall: I have been adding compost or rotted manure for digging - the more, the better. 4) The plant loves watering, but without stagnant water. Blooms profusely in sunny places. f I feed the morning glory 3 times a season with mineral complex fertilizers for flowering (according to the instructions).
From powdery mildew

In the case of prolonged rains, powdery mildew can affect the vine. Help processing a solution of 50 g of soda ash in 10 liters of warm water with 50 g of laundry soap, grated on a fine grater.
Successful experiments
To collect the seeds without letting them get enough sleep, at the end of August I tie the green boxes of morning glory with cotton sacks. Every 5 days I take them off and collect dried seed material. Then I return the bags to their original place.
Since last year, I have been sowing 2-3 seeds of vines in large hanging flowerpots. The plant looks very original in them. In September, I bring the flowerpots into the room, and here the seeds have time to ripen well.

This year I first sowed Ipomech lobate. On the package with seeds, in the picture, attention was drawn to the mixed and bright red-yellow coloration of flowers, and from behind it was written that the plant in height reaches 5 meters. I also thought that once the liana is large, then the inflorescence is appropriate. Nothing like this! They at me have appeared precisely the same size, as well as in a picture, all centimeter on 3 in length. That is, the picture did not diminish anything, but I do not know what I imagined. I have written to myself a few garden magazines and will read them: I do not know enough information on the seeds!

When buying seeds for the new season, I acquired the unfamiliar morning glory of Mina Lobata. Sowed it in mid-March. Young plants do not tolerate transplantation; therefore, sowing was carried out with dry seeds directly into peat pots with moistened soil mixture. She covered the pots with foil and put it in a warm, bright place. A few days later - earlier than indicated on the bag. - seedlings began to appear. Pots set on the windowsill.
Seedlings began to grow and curl quickly, so I had to install supports from wooden skewers for skewers. Soon they were not enough - I replaced the skewers with a more solid support. Until mid-April, as an additional illumination, it turned on a fluorescent lamp. Before planting in the open ground, the seedlings were tempered, and already in early May the plants “moved” to the open
soil, landed them at a distance of 40 cm from each other and set pegs near each and pulled vertically the trellis. Then - traditional watering, cultivation, top dressing.
Morning glory did not bloom right away. First, she grew long - up to 3 m - lashes with a mass of beautiful leaves, and only at the end of July did unilateral inflorescences 15-25 cm long stretch toward the sun. The flowers in the brush look like peppercorns. The buds are dark red in color, but as they unfold, the color of the flowers changes from orange to creamy white. In one inflorescence, flowers of different colors are simultaneously present. At the peak of flowering, the liana turns into a colorful waterfall, a blazing bonfire. Is it possible not to fall in love with such beauty ?!
For the seeds of this amazing plant I have already lined up a whole queue!

Over the years of working with a super-compacted garden, I selected the most spectacular plants and developed a number of techniques for caring for them. The first thing to consider when forming the “a la jungle” plantations I love so much is the selection of flowering vines. Amazing results showed ordinary blackberries and grape raisins. But morning glory has become the real queen of my garden.
In the course of experiments with different varieties, I left only two of them: Nochka and Scarlett O'Xapa. I had to abandon the variety with sky-blue flowers due to late poor flowering and demanding. But the remaining two turned out to be quite enough to create compositions.
Spreading through the garden, the morning glory forms unusual compositions from blossoming grottos, arches, green waterfalls. She irresistibly
It is upward and grows well by self-seeding. If the soil is sufficiently fertile, the morning glory does not suffer even from excessive thickening. There is no other such plant that would be more suitable for a time-limited gardener.
Ipomea easily bypasses obstacles on his way. The exception is a polycarbonate coating. She spends her shoots under a transparent canopy, increases the area of ​​the leaves and flourishes violently. In hot weather, the morning glory under the polycarbonate is extremely fond of sprinkling with cool water and regular top dressing with infusions of organic substances. My corporate effective "agrosup" consists of a universal mineral fertilizer, cow manure and bird droppings. After such feeding the morning glory blissfully!

Have you seen how petunias bloom? No, not 2-3 bush, but a whole collection of different varieties? This is admiration and delight. Fantastic fireworks of sunny, bright colors, different shades and shapes.
Terry petunia resemble chic roses. And how splendid the lace fringe varieties!
But there is one drawback for these flowers: all these exquisite flowers of the seeds do not give or sprout very poorly, which means that it will not be possible to multiply the plants from the harvested seeds. And what to do when you want to have such beauty the next year? I want to share my experience on how to preserve and multiply petunia.
About three years ago I scraped out a bush of petunia and for the winter carried it to the window sill to be blackened-forged in the spring. But the plant does not tolerate the transplant and can die.
I got used to the way of the summer cuttings of the plant, which is done from the end of July to the middle of August, so that the bush does not grow too large, but at the same time it is well rooted.
To do this, you need to choose a petunia bush and cut it with a sharp knife, or, preferably, with a scalpel cuttings no more than 8-10. See the lower leaves from the cuttings and remove them directly into the ground in the shady spot of the garden. In the fresh air and with enough light they take root. For better rooting, the ends of the skulls are covered with corn root.
The main secret of success: the cuttings should be cut as soon as possible into the soil. After 1-2 hours after cutting, their ability to root sharply drops, even if they were stored in wet conditions.
When the top of the plant starts growing, you can pinch it through several sheets to get a branched bush. Before the cold snap, I carefully put the young bushes into a pot and lump them into a flat until the spring. '
I recommend not to wait for very cold weather, but to transplant petunia, when there is still a big difference in temperatures in the street and in the apartment, so that the plant is easier to acclimatize in the apartment conditions.
In winter, it is better to keep the petunia on the cold windows closer to the glass. In severe frosts, air from the window pane can pierce it.
Care for plants obtained by cuttings propagation is no different from caring for seedlings grown from seeds.
In the spring, even before landing on the garden plot, petunia can give you the first flowers at a sufficient light day or lightening.

My mother plants ampelian petunias in the flowerpot. I would like to try to drop them on a regular bed, so that a kind of carpet of petunia sobbing turns out. But will not it be harmful to them?

The main place among the flowers is Ipomea, or farbitis. This curling plant, which, wrapped around the supports, can grow to 2 m. Ipomoe can be used for decoration of balconies, walls, verandas, arches.
The plant likes open, sunny places, protected from cold winds. Propagate ipomei seeds or seedlings. Seeds sow in the second decade of April in a sheltered soil. In light and fertilized soils, they rise through 7-10 days. When the threat of frost passes, the plants are planted with a moist clod of earth at a distance of 40 cm from each other.
We live in the south, so we sow the glory right in
My wife and I were born in the countryside. After graduating from the Biological Faculty, they devoted their whole lives to the education of schoolchildren in the love of nature, and especially to the colors that brightened our existence throughout our life, delighted us with bright and magnificent flowering, as if in gratitude for love and care. With age, strength and health diminished, but the love of flowers remained the same. We grow roses and daffodils, and tulips, and irises. 6 recently, we are increasingly paying attention to unpretentious flowers, but the beauty of flowers, their size and abundance, the duration of flowering is not inferior to others.
dug up, ground with humus. Depth of sowing up to 4 cm, distance -12 see
Midsummer maintenance requires minimal: weeding and weeding. Flowering starts in 80-85 days, depending on care and weather. Plants bloom profusely until the frost. Seeds are harvested as they mature.
The flowers of the morning glory are pink, crimson, purple and dark blue. They please their beauty only one day, but they are succeeded by the following. As a result, the entire bush is covered with spectacular flowers from June to cold weather. Such bushes make an indelible impression and cheer up.
An unusually bright mixture of ipem will become the first star of the garden. Ipomian lianas can be used in the vertical gardening of the garden, for decorating balconies and arbors. Ipomea is undemanding - only a small area and reliable support are needed. But it blooms better on sunny and sheltered from the wind. For the support, you can use a mesh or a vertically stretched wire or rope. All varieties ippey are very hardy, beautifully growing in a temperate climate and blossoming continuously from June until frosts.

What needs to be done to make the petunias blossom abundantly and magnificently?

Last fall, I planned to move flowering marigolds, pansies and lion's phallus to the veranda. I chose small specimens with a lot of buds. Light and heat was enough. But alas! In viola a new shoot grew, the buds did not develop, and the marigolds simply dried. The autumn was warm, and the viola bloomed for a very long time in the garden until it was covered with snow. The chrysanthemum bushes planted in the pots also froze in development, a new shoot grew, but the buds either withered or did not open. Tell me how to do it right - I will be grateful for help.