This is one of my favorite flowering vines to grow. These annuals come in a variety of colors such as white, different shade of pinks, different reds, different shades of purple and of course my favorite blue. These beautiful vining plants can grow up to twenty feet tall.
Okay lets get ready to plant. First thing, plant your morning glories no more then a week before you areas last frost. And to get a jump on the germination you can soak your seed in warm water for up to a day before planting. But don’t worry about pricking the seed or cutting them open, I find this to be a waste of time. Plus it is really hard to hang on to those seed and prick it at the same time.
Now let’s choose our location. You want to have a place where there is full sun and well drained soil. Working a spade full of compost into the soil is a good idea at this point. Now plant your seeds about an inch below the surface and it is advised that you plant more then one seed in each location to insure growth. You can always thin the plants once they reach a height of at least an inch tall.
Now morning glories need support and the height of the supports is determined by the variety of morning glory that you choose to plant. So just take a second to look at your seed package and see what the ultimate height will be.
As your plants grow you may have to wrap the vine. gently around the support. After that the vines should climb up their supports. Just make sure to water them when they are dry but be careful not to over water your morning glories or they will not flower. Once the growing season is over the vines will turn brown. When this happens just take them off their supports. Sometimes you have to cut them down. Now place them in your compost bin and wait to start it all over again next year.
Just a quick guide to where these plants really show their stuff. I have found that on a garden trellis in you flower garden or on some support near a walkway is a great way to show off these awesome flowers. Also if you are feeling daring try to collect the seed from your morning glories for the next growing season just make sure that the bloom dies off. Now wait a few weeks and where that bloom was will be a dry pod. If you remove that pod and break it open you will find the seed you need for the next year or to give to your friends because you will end up with way more seeds then one person really needs.
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The Tiger Lily is botanically Lilium Lancifolium or Lilium Tigrinum. It is a very tall late summer blooming bulb with somewhat globe-shaped flowers that face downward. The stalks, sometimes getting up to 6 feet tall, have long, narrow, stiff, dark green leaves growing all up the stems very much like its cousins the Madonna, Asiatic, Oriental and Easter Lily. Tiny black dots start to grow where the leaves connect with the stalk soon after the flowers buds appear. Some call these seeds but they are truly tiny bulblets and when these drop they promptly root on the surrounding ground to extend the colony of Lilies. These can be collected, of course, and planted wherever you like but be certain to plant them immediately as they dry out quickly and then are no longer viable.
The Tiger Lily does best in humus rich, well draining soil and prefers to have their roots shaded and cool. A thick mulch will accomplish this nicely. The flowering tops like dappled shade but can tolerate full sun quite well when given plenty of water. Their roots must never dry out. The Tiger Lily is an extremely hardy plant growing in zones 3-8. The flowers are 4 inches wide with six long petals which curve completely back to touch the base and to reveal the spotting all along the petals. These beautiful flowers have 6-8 long, protruding stamens of the same color tipped with a bit of bright yellow. The only thing lacking is a fragrance.
The blossom’s traditional color is orange with dark brown, black or purplish spots, just like the colors of a tiger, although there have been cultivars recently developed in white, cream, yellow, pink and red all with the distinctive spots. The spots is where they get their funny name. Yes, I know exactly what you’re thinking. Leopards have spots and Tigers have stripes. Therefore the flowers should be called Leopard Lilies but neither one of us were there to name them back in the day so we are stuck with the ridiculous name of Tiger Lily.
Regardless of what they are called the Tiger Lily makes a wonderful addition to the back of a perennial border, in a cutting garden, a shrub border or to add height and interest to a butterfly or hummingbird garden. Yes, the Tiger Lily is a favorite of both the Butterfly and the Hummingbird. You will see them fluttering around them endlessly.
These plants are not to be confused with the common, orange Native Daylily or Hemerocallis Fulva which can be seen growing in huge clumps all along highways, country
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