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FINALLY! WEDDING BELLS (Ipomoea Tricolor) See description below pictures:
Grown in a pot on the porch
Two pics above are from my friend KATHY (2007).
This pic is in my driveway (2006)
These two pictures were taken by my friend LAURIE.
This is an indoor Wedding Bell, grown by Kathy in Delaware! (2007)
this picture was taken in October of 2004.
New Photos! Wedding Bells is the lavender one. The blue at the bottom is actually a Heavenly Blue right behind it.
Ipomoea Tricolor - "Wedding Bells". Extremely Rare! I've got a few seeds, and finally got one to bloom after 2 years trying! Commercially available NOWHERE. It is exactly like Heavenly Blue except for the main color - it is a very beautiful "rosy-lavender", but has the same creamy yellow center. This is due a a genetic lack of blue pigment in the flower, I think. It also almost completely lacks the faint fragrance that Heavenly Blue has. It is a mutation of Heavenly Blue that the late Darold Decker introduced in 1961 for the 1962 growing season. Here's a scan (140K) of the original Wedding Bells advertisement he ran in 1961 directed at seed retailers - he (and his company) died in 1963, so don't try to respond to the ad! This is my main "save it from extinction" project of 1998. I'll get photos and as many seeds as possible from this year's crop. On cloudy days it seems to glow! It looks purplish-pinkish and like electric or neon lavender depending on the angle you look at it, and depending on if its sunlight or shade. Very nice. It is in a small 4" pot of potting soil. It is growing up a stake in the ground, and the pot is sitting on the ground next to the stake. I tied it to the stake with a couple of those nylon fastening ties. It has to be watered every day unless it rains because the heat drys it out in such a tiny pot. The stake is 6 feet tall, and the vine quickly topped it, and branched into three vines that loop down to about the 3 foot level and climbed up again! There are about 100 buds on the vine, and 1 to 4 open each day. If in a bigger pot, there would be 20 times as many.
Here's some more taken in July and August 2001:
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