Magenta Morning Glory 01

This is the prettiest climber in our garden.  We bought it years ago, but now there is only a few plants left because their lives are short and the bugs and snails like to eat them.  This plant is the fifth generation if I’m not mistaken.  Each generation is less than half a year.  Luckily it produces seeds after flowering, but not all the seeds can grow.  It cannot grow very well also because of the limited space and we planted it a pot.

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I guess if I plant it on the ground, each generation would have a longer life and it can climb higher.  Every time I have to collect the seeds and replant manually, otherwise it would have been extinct from our house long ago.

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You can see the white colour filaments in the middle of the flower waiting for the bees or butterflies to help the pollination process.  I would like to thank all of the insects that help with this process.  I do not forget about the wind too.  It can also carry the pollen.  Without the pollinators, I would not be able to show you these pictures here.

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You can see how weak they are.  They flower petal is extremely thin.  When the rain comes the flowers can drop easily.

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This is how the flower buds look like.  They are hairy.  Not only the buds, but the leaves are hairy too.  :o

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Its leaf is similar to the maple leaf.

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When I touch morning glory flower, I have accidentally folded it inward.  I touch it carefully so that it won’t drop.  I try to unfold it and it works. :p

We have another type of morning glory in our garden as well.  I will show you in the next post.