Mourning my Morning Glory Vine!

United States
November 16, 2009 11:12pm CST
This morning I was sitting out on my patio as I do every morning. Enjoying my coffee, some quite and a smoke. Before too long a truck with a trailer pulled up and began unloading. It was the landscapers for the complex I live in. I was immediately surrounded by loud roaring engines. Anyways, while I was sitting there, I saw one of them walk over (out of the corner of my eye) and wee-whack my morning glory vine! I jumped up, ran out and looked, sure enough...he did. It was growing right outside my patio and I trained it through and onto this trelace I made for it. It had lovely flowers and was just beginning to get used to where it would be growing. I didn't say anything to the guy as it was not marked or anything, but, boy did that upset me. RIPMG!
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• United States
17 Nov 09
oh no poor morning glory. i love morning glories and i have had my dad weed whack and mow over my plants in the yard and garden so many times i cannot count i don't know why i have to be there to point out every plant that is not a weed for him but he refuses to remember what is what. what color flowers did your vine have? i have purple, blue, and pink ones that have gone wild on the wall of the house.
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• United States
17 Nov 09
The flowers were a beautiful deep pink. They were small. I was so excited every morning to go out there and check its progress and see what flowers it had for me. There were two leaves left by the ground where it was cut. I buried the rest of it nearby in case it decides to come back. I love them too and I had big plans for this one. I will definitely plant again if it doesn't come back. And this time, it will be marked.
• United States
17 Nov 09
im glad your gonna mark it this time so hopefully they dont kill it. i do love the pink ones and the royal purple ones. im gonna say i bet it will grow back like it never got cut those things are so strong its almost winter here and there was one warm day last week and some of the seeds from the previous summer started sprouting and had unfurled their first leaves in one day.
• United States
17 Nov 09
Wow! That's amazing about the seedlings the other day. They must have been fooled into thinking it was spring! I have heard other stories of how resilient MG can be. My mother actually told me she doesn't like it because once you get it, you can't control it. I'm not concerned about that. I just want a vine to grow on this thing I made for my patio and I love mg.
@jewels49 (1776)
• United States
17 Nov 09
Ley me say how impressed I am with your restraint. Had someone weed-whacked my morning glories or any other flower for that matter I think I would have lost it on him. My husband mowed down my new peonies one year, him I had to give the benefit of the doubt because they didn't have any flowers on them yet, and they ended up coming back like nothing I've ever seen. But for someone to see flowers and chop them down? The man had no soul!!lol
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• United States
17 Nov 09
LOL. I must defend the dopey guy here. While he made a crucial mistake, I understand how he didn't know. There were no flowers visible to him. If he didn't know how to id morning glory by the leaves, it was doomed. Therefore, chop-chop! It is growing right outside my patio. Coincidently, it came up right near where I placed this fouton frame I painted. I put it there, on it's side with plans of getting some kind of vine to grow on it. More privacy kinda thing. I was so happy it popped up right there and I fed it through the cinder blocks so that it could climb on my frame. It was loving it. That's where all the flowers where. On his side were only maybe 8 inches of a few sets of leaves. Nothing else near it though. It's hard to explain, but, I hope I made it visibly clearer how it was growing.
@jewels49 (1776)
• United States
18 Nov 09
okay..maybe he had a soul..I love morning glories, I wished I lived where they weren't considered an annual. I grow the prettiest blue ones..I wind them all around in the lattice on our deck and they are gorgeous,then winter comes and I start all over every spring.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
5 Dec 09
oh my and they can be so pretty. just go to the store and buy some morning glory seeds and they sprout pretty quickly.then as they grow train them again up your trellis and soon you will be enjoying their pretty blossoms again. too bad you did not mark it I feel for you. I love the things myself.
• United States
12 May 10
Thank you so much. I have done just that and now I enjoy my pretty blue morning glories. I also have them marked and planed on the inside of my patio. :-)