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.Hi from southern USA! ....
This is slow to download, but there are 20 pictures and they add up to over 1 meg. But they are worth the wait!!
Driving around the southern U.S. with a cheap camera and FUJI film, ASA 200. SCROLL DOWN..
Heavenly Blue (Ipomoea Tricolor) Each one of those flowers is as big as the palm of my hand! They are about 4 inches in diameter, and this mass reaches up about 10 feet.
Heavenly Blue (Ipomoea Tricolor) Wow, this is my favorite picture!
Heavenly Blue
Common Morning Glory (Ipomoea Purpurea) In the front, the hot pink variety, background is the purple one, and second flower from the very top is a blue one with a purple "star"! The different colors are all on separate plants that grow near each other, and often twine around each other, but there's only one color to a plant.
Heavenly Blue in front, Pearly Gates in back on porch. (Both are Ipomoea Tricolor)
Common Morning Glory (Ipomoea Purpurea) these look even deeper purple in person than in the photograph. The flowers are about 2 inches in diameter.
Common Morning Glory (Ipomoea Purpurea), pink variety
Ipomoea Hederacea - notice trilobed leaves
Common Morning Glory (Ipomoea Purpurea), This is a puny little potted one due to lack of sun)
Japanese Imperial (Ipomoea Nil) Several different purple and white striped, with variegated dark and light green leaves sent by a friend through the mail!
Common Morning Glory (Ipomoea Purpurea) This one is white with a purple "star". (Can someone stretch the contrast of this and email it to me? I don't have Photoshop or anything.) Growing wild over at NCSU. A grad student at Duke University is studying the "jumping gene" involved with the purple star's color, which jumps generations, or something... These Ipomoea Purpurea wild ones will intermix with nice, weird combinations. I have seen: the main flower being blue, red, white, purple, or hot pink; the "star" being white, red, purple, or absent; and the "throat" being white or purplish-red. The best one yet was blue with a red star and white throat! I'll go back to Greensboro, NC to get seeds of that one, growing on a fence behind a laundromat, in a few weeks. Oh, and I just found out that Ipomoea Purpurea and Ipomoea Nil will cross to make really cool hybrids, with streaks and white rays. I found this on a Japanese website. Search for the word ASAGAO (it means "morning face") and you will find lots of Japanese morning glory websites!
Common Morning Glory (Ipomoea Purpurea)
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Heavenly Blue - Need to color correct this photo - in direct sun these deep blue flowers come out looking purple on film.
Common Morning Glory (Ipomoea Purpurea), classic purple weed.
Common Morning Glory (Ipomoea Purpurea), pink variety, growing up a 12 foot tall fence.
Heavenly Blue (Ipomoea Tricolor)
That potted Ipomoea Purpurea
Heavenly Blue (Ipomoea Tricolor) That little pink flower is not a morning glory, it is the last flower left from a now smothered Clematis vine.
Heavenly Blue (Ipomoea Tricolor) Just starting to fade in the early afternoon sun.
Cadillac DeVille - a sofa on wheels!
Heavenly Blue - Need to color correct this photo - in direct sun these deep blue flowers come out looking purple on film.