Plant Encyclopedia

Other Names:  Dwarf Hybrid Morning Glory

Brand:  Proven Winners

Description:

This silver-green-leafed variety produces dazzling, true-blue flowers all season, without deadheading; heat and drought tolerant once established; a compact mounding and trailing habit great for containers, hanging baskets, and border fronts

Ornamental Features

Blue My Mind® XL Morning Glory is bathed in stunning clusters of sky blue cup-shaped flowers with white eyes at the ends of the stems from mid spring to mid fall. Its attractive oval leaves emerge silver in spring, turning grayish green in colour throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Blue My Mind® XL Morning Glory is an herbaceous annual with a trailing habit of growth, eventually spilling over the edges of hanging baskets and containers. 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 relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It is a good choice for attracting bees and butterflies to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Blue My Mind® XL Morning Glory is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Mass Planting
• Rock/Alpine Gardens
• Border Edging
• General Garden Use
• Groundcover
• Container Planting
• Hanging Baskets

Planting & Growing

Blue My Mind® XL Morning Glory will grow to be about 8 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. Although it's not a true annual, this fast-growing plant can be expected to behave as an annual in our climate if left outdoors over the winter, usually needing replacement the following year. As such, gardeners should take into consideration that it will perform differently than it would in its native habitat.

This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. This plant should not require much in the way of fertilizing once established, although it may appreciate a shot of general-purpose fertilizer from time to time early in the growing season. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in rich soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Blue My Mind® XL Morning Glory is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor containers and hanging baskets. Because of its trailing 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. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.