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Heavenly Blue Morning Glory
Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue'
Height: 10 feet
Spread: 24 inches
Sunlight:
Hardiness Zone: (annual)
Ornamental Features
Heavenly Blue Morning Glory features bold blue trumpet-shaped flowers with white throats along the stems from early summer to early fall. Its heart-shaped leaves remain green in colour throughout the season.
Landscape Attributes
Heavenly Blue Morning Glory is an herbaceous annual with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
This is a high maintenance plant that will require regular care and upkeep, and can be pruned at anytime. It is a good choice for attracting hummingbirds to your yard. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;
- Invasive
- Self-Seeding
Heavenly Blue Morning Glory is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Accent
- Hedges/Screening
- General Garden Use
- Groundcover
- Container Planting
Planting & Growing
Heavenly Blue Morning Glory will grow to be about 10 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. As a climbing vine, it should either be planted near a fence, trellis or other landscape structure where it can be trained to grow upwards on it, or allowed to trail off a retaining wall or slope. This fast-growing annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year. However, this species tends to self-seed and may thereby endure for years in the garden if allowed.
This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.
Heavenly Blue Morning Glory is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. Because of its spreading habit of growth, it is ideally suited for use as a 'spiller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot. It is even sizeable enough that it can be grown alone in a suitable container. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.