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| Purple Morning Glory on our deck |
Morning glories greet the day with their blue hued petals facing the rising sun. They survive until afternoon when they curl up and begin developing seeds that will replenish the flower bed in the next year.
My Mother grew blue Morning Glories when I was young. She still grows some, but not as many. I grew some off our back deck for several years. Most were blue ones. But I also planted some red and purple ones as well. The blue and red varieties were behind the main part of the deck and created a green and blue curtain that partially shielded us from the outside world. Eventually I stopped planting them every year. The blue and red ones kept returning every year but the color deteriorated in each generation until they eventually only displayed a reduced number of small white flowers.
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| Backlit Morning Glory |
Purple Morning Glories are another story. They were planted around the gazebo and climbed up the lattice below and intertwined in the deck railing. Each year, several of the plants come up and continue to present the same deep purple as they always did.
One thing about Morning Glories is the different color patterns you see depending on how you look at them. Looking straight on like the one in the upper left gives you the reflected color. But a whole different color pattern emerges when it is backlit by the bright sunlight as the other pictures show. Backlighting helps bring out the structure of the flower and gives a different color entirely.
