MORNING GLORY

The English call it Morning Glory: it is Ipomoea violacea, a Convolvulacea with abundant flowering from June to October. Its large trumpet-shaped flowers, purple-blue with a white throat, open in the morning and then close back in on themselves in the evening. Originally from Mexico and Guatemala, it is delicate: here in the North it is therefore cultivated as an annual, but it grows very quickly: it also works well in pots, to quickly cover a balustrade or an arch, for example; in the South, however, it tends to be perennial, but if the temperature drops below zero degrees then it regresses, although it returns in spring. There are many decorative varieties, which you can find for example in the Thompson&Morgan and Chiltern Seeds catalog and purchase the seeds online. But be careful: its seeds are hallucinogenic, make sure they are not accidentally swallowed by children and pets.