Moonflower

[mnhtnbb]

The moonflower is growing on my husband's veggie garden enclosure (to keep out the deer, squirrels, and birds!)



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[hlthe2b]

1. Lovely.. I also adore the name of the plant, Moonflower

--very evocative.

[CrispyQ]

2. Very pretty.

I've never heard of a moonflower before,

[mnhtnbb]

3. Moonflowers bloom at night and close up during the day.

[Plucketeer]

4. Beautiful blooms

We grow a couple of vines every year here in central Calif.. At night the blooms are visited by big moths. Should add that the blooms release a heavenly scent as well. If you happen to be there just as a bud opens, you can hear it snap loose from it's folded state.

[mnhtnbb]

5. Cool, I've never heard them open.

[alfredo]

6. I remember the many Moonflowers on my mail route. It was a poor neighborhood,

and I bet they shared seeds with friends and family.

[Plucketeer]

7. Quite likely. Each flower will eventually produce four large seeds

There's also another non-vine plant that's commonly called a moonflower. They perpetuate here every year - in SPITE of my best efforts to eliminate them. Big, white blooms - just like the ones we propagate, but these free-standing plants get to be a real nuisance if they're allowed to go unchecked.

[alfredo]

8. That free standing plant is what we have here in central Ky.

[Curmudgeoness]

12. I remember that we always were told

that jimsonweed (or thornapple) was a moonflower, probably because it also has huge white flowers. Not the same thing though.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Is it a kind of morning glory?

It's beautiful.

[mnhtnbb]

10. Yes, they're related. Good eye.

http://www.hortmag.com/plant-files/morning-glories-moonflowers

[Blue_In_AK]

11. I don't believe either of these grow here,

which is sad because they're so beautiful. My grandmothers always had morning glories around their farmhouses in Ohio when I was a kid.