My garden is starting to look pretty scraggly (as it always does at this point in the summer), but it’s redeemed a little by the morning glories, which are finally beginning to bloom. I love the color–bright indigo with pinkish accents.
Due to the dry spring we had, the vine isn’t as bushy or the flowers as abundant as they have been in past summers, but it still looks really pretty. The dead rhododendron that sits in my garden makes a great support for the vine. Hopefully in another month or so it will be completely covered. The daily thunderstorms we’ve been getting should help it along.
Seeing these flowers first thing every morning always makes my load feel a little bit lighter.
Lucky Otters Haven 
I fell in love with Morning Glories after reading Morning Glory
by LaVyrle Spencer. I had them growing around my porch. I loved how they would vine up the lattice.
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Your garden is very pretty. I like the flowers.
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They’re beautiful!
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The ones you have are so healthy and pretty looking. I’m happy to learn what a morning glory is. I love your blog. What we talk about best, Narcissism, plus a little bit of everything else!
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I like to post about many different things. Also, sometimes I need to take a break from such a deadly serious and dark subject as narcissism and cluster B disorders in general.
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Very nice colors!!! They do make the day lighter 😃😃
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I’m a morning glory fanatic. I plant them in huge pots on my deck (which faces south and gets lots of sun) and train them to grow up the vertical rails a
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I’m sorry, my cat just jumped up on my desk and flopped onto my keyboard and made that comment post before I’d finished writing it. I’ll try again.
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HAHA!
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What I meant to say was, I train them to grow up the vertical rails and then along the horizontal ones. It takes all of June and July just to get the vines established, then if I’m lucky they start blooming at the end of July or beginning of August, and they bloom like crazy all through August and September. Then they are gorgeous.
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Here’s what they look like when they finally get around to blooming. This picture is from a couple of summers ago.
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WOW! They are beautiful!
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They do look best at the end of the summer and early fall, before the first frost.
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Yep, that’s when they go wild. The growing season is much shorter up here in the north, but we make the most of what there is of it!
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