Ipomea Alba - Moon Vine

[shushkin!]

Hi

Has anyone successfully grown this amazing plant outside?
It seems to be a bit of a hot house beauty.
I dont want to just grow it in my greenhouse as the perfume
is heavenly and I want everyone to enjoy it when I have
summer garden get togethers. It should really attract the
night flying insects and so the bats which fascinate me.

[VirginVegGrower]

Is that the one that looks like convolvulus? I have seen one but it needs night air for its heady scent. Grows on the Med like a weed. There's another night-time heady scented plant, the name of which escapes me. Tiny pink flowers.

[rustylady]

According to Thompson and Morgan it is a half hardy annual Morning Glory (Moonflower) - 3 for 2 seeds - Thompson & Morgan I've successfully grown the multi-coloured morning glories which are related.

[Thelma Sanders]

wiki Ipomoea alba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is interesting- it says that it likes short summer days rather than our long ones so flowers better in autumn

[shushkin!]

Cheers for that. The seedlings have popped up now and seem raring to go.
It will be interesting to see how they do this year.

[zazen999]

I think it looks fab - but if I put one of those in our garden Mr Z would have a flying fit - due to the amount of hours he spends chasing bindweed out of our beds from other people's overspills and bad husbandry.

[shushkin!]

I think it looks fab - but if I put one of those in our garden Mr Z would have a flying fit - due to the amount of hours he spends chasing bindweed out of our beds from other people's overspills and bad husbandry.

Yes, that was one of my concerns too. The dreaded convulvulous!
Thankfully it really is a hot house beauty and wont survive a winter here.