Morning Glory - Tips To Grow Annual Flowers

Gardening

oi-Anjana

By Anjana Ns

Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 14:16

If you want your landscape to look colorful and bright with flowers and have been wondering on what are the fast growing flowers or type of flowers to be planted then annual flowers is the answer. "Morning Glory", popularly known as "Heavenly Blue" are the best annual flowers for your garden. These fast growing star shaped flowers belong to the Convolvulaceae family that blooms in morning and closes by noon. The most common colors in glories include blue, purple, yellow, white and red. Morning Glory are called fence flowers as they are used to cover fence and walls of the garden, Being a very fast growing plant, it takes just a few days to grow. Take a look at these morning glory growing tips and grow these beautiful "heavenly blues".

Morning Glory Growing Tips -

1.Morning glories require good sunlight but less water so grow these annual flowers in place which gets good sunlight and where the soil is relatively dry.

2.If you planning to sow seeds then soak the seeds for atleast 24 hours before you sow.

3.While sowing seeds see to it that you plant atleast two to three seeds about an inch deep so that you will insured that either of the three will grow .

4.These annual flowers have tender stem so they would require support to grow so provide a good support to the plant with the help of a twine when it is upto 10 feet high.

5.Morning Glories do not require much of care as they easily grow in any weather condition. Spraying fertilizers and pruning is also not necessary for these plants.

6.The seeds of these flowers may be toxic so advise your children to keep away from these seeds.

7.Even though glory is an annual plant, it will keep re-planting itself by dispersal of its seeds so keep a check as it may not take very long to spread to the entire garden.

Use the above Morning Glory Growing tips and make your garden look beautiful with these star shaped bell flowers in no time.