This vining annual can be grown as a groundcover or a climber, quickly spreading 4 to 6 feet long and trailing blooms every inch of the way! the flowers are 2 inches wide, with 5 bright magenta-red petals surrounding a white center. But how very different they look from other Morning Glories! There's never been anything like it!
Like all Morning Glories, Split Personality thrives in full sunshine, blooming happily from summer until frost. Here in the South, wild Morning Glories carpet the ditches at the side of the roads -- an amazing sight for anyone new to the area! But Split Personality is a far cry from its wild cousins, showing a restrained growth that's just perfect for hanging baskets, tall planters, and quick coverage of any sunny garden spot.
Split Personality is easy to grow from seed. Simply soak the seeds overnight in cold water to soften up their hard shell. Then cover them with about a quarter inch of soil and keep them at temperatures anywhere from 68 to 86 degrees F. You can sow them outside where they are to be grown as soon as the soil has warmed up in spring, or begin them indoors a few weeks ahead of time in a deep container. (Those roots grow fast!) Expect germination to take up to 3 weeks. Once they sprout, they never look back!
Split petals seem to be all the rage this year -- for another startling take on this look, consider Foxglove Pantaloons! And be sure to grow some of Split Personality's cousins in garden or container, just to show off the different look of the petals: Star of Yelta is a stunning choice, as is merry Tie Dye Blue. Few plants are so generous with the number of blooms, length of bloomtime, and ease of growth! Pkt is 20 seeds.
Ipomoea leptophylla, Bush Morning Glory, grows 3 feet tall and has 3 inch flowers that open a rosy purple and mature a deep purple. It works well nestled in borders. Ipomoea nil, I. purpurea, and I. tricolor are 8-10 foot long, climbing vines to be grown on a structure: trellis, fence, or arbor. The showy single or double flowers come in colors of blue, purple, pink, red, or white and are either solid, striped, or bicolor. For the duration of the summer (July through frost), the above species’ flowers open in the early morning and fade by the afternoon. The leaves are all green and heart shaped
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
This vining annual can be grown as a groundcover or a climber, quickly spreading 4 to 6 feet long and trailing blooms every inch of the way! the flowers are 2 inches wide, with 5 bright magenta-red petals surrounding a white center. But how very different they look from other Morning Glories! There's never been anything like it!
Like all Morning Glories, Split Personality thrives in full sunshine, blooming happily from summer until frost. Here in the South, wild Morning Glories carpet the ditches at the side of the roads -- an amazing sight for anyone new to the area! But Split Personality is a far cry from its wild cousins, showing a restrained growth that's just perfect for hanging baskets, tall planters, and quick coverage of any sunny garden spot.
Split Personality is easy to grow from seed. Simply soak the seeds overnight in cold water to soften up their hard shell. Then cover them with about a quarter inch of soil and keep them at temperatures anywhere from 68 to 86 degrees F. You can sow them outside where they are to be grown as soon as the soil has warmed up in spring, or begin them indoors a few weeks ahead of time in a deep container. (Those roots grow fast!) Expect germination to take up to 3 weeks. Once they sprout, they never look back!
Split petals seem to be all the rage this year -- for another startling take on this look, consider Foxglove Pantaloons! And be sure to grow some of Split Personality's cousins in garden or container, just to show off the different look of the petals: Star of Yelta is a stunning choice, as is merry Tie Dye Blue. Few plants are so generous with the number of blooms, length of bloomtime, and ease of growth! Pkt is 20 seeds.
Ipomoea leptophylla, Bush Morning Glory, grows 3 feet tall and has 3 inch flowers that open a rosy purple and mature a deep purple. It works well nestled in borders. Ipomoea nil, I. purpurea, and I. tricolor are 8-10 foot long, climbing vines to be grown on a structure: trellis, fence, or arbor. The showy single or double flowers come in colors of blue, purple, pink, red, or white and are either solid, striped, or bicolor. For the duration of the summer (July through frost), the above species’ flowers open in the early morning and fade by the afternoon. The leaves are all green and heart shaped
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.