# Morning Glories Gone Viral ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820 "2012-08-27T14:22:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/1 "2012-08-27T14:22:19Z")
Here in midcoast Maine, my morning glories have finally grown, sprouted flowers and tendrils out the wazoo, and are now _ **ATTACKING** _ the hummingbird feeders :eek: ``` :cool: :D ``` Just thought the world would like to know :smack: ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/2 "2012-08-27T14:29:48Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > Here in midcoast Maine, my morning glories have finally grown, sprouted flowers and tendrils out the wazoo, and are now > > _ **ATTACKING** _ > > the hummingbird feeders > > :eek: > > ``` > :cool: > > :D > > ``` > > Just thought the world would like to know :smack: Those vines do seem to have a certain consciousness to them sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/3 "2012-08-27T15:01:57Z")
Wild morning glories, a.k.a. bindweed, looks a great deal like the cultivated, more well-mannered versions but _dayum_ they will take over things. Izzat what you’ve got? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/4 "2012-08-27T15:05:35Z")
Pics or it didn’t happen. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/5 "2012-08-27T15:25:56Z")
I’ve got them [popping up in my front yard](http://esoileau.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/weed-this-and-reap/). (Narrative, no pix.) They are really tenacious things. When they go to seed they send the seeds literally popping in all directions. I’ve seen 'em do it and they seem to be eyeing me malevolently as they do it. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/6 "2012-08-27T16:14:47Z")
They manage to climb up the phone line and will get to the street if I don’t keep them in check. They’ll pull over day lillies, primrose, and they’ve started in on trying to get the walnut trees. It’s about time for one of my monthly battles with the bastards. And it does look like the aftermath of a battle from all the red-brown sap stains on the hands after the fight. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/7 "2012-08-27T18:51:17Z")
I HAVE photos … I just don’t know how to add them to a post !!! :smack: If somebody can tell me HOW … I’ll put them up & then YOU can see the viral morning glories entrapping the hummingbird feeders 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/8 "2012-08-27T18:53:46Z")
You need to load them up on a image-sharing site like Photobucket, then just post a link like any regular url. I love morning glories - I tried planting them from seed, but they didn’t get far enough here to do much, and I haven’t seen them for sale as seedlings in a few years. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/9 "2012-08-27T20:32:08Z")
Out here in Seattle, the gardening columnist in the paper once informed people that to eliminate Morning Glories, you had to make sure you got the ‘mother root’ or it would just regrow. The problem was that he claimed the ‘mother root’ was in a town about 35 miles north of Seattle… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/10 "2012-08-28T00:38:16Z")
Ah, yes, the same place that houses the mother root for all the dandelions in my yard… ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/11 "2012-08-28T00:40:21Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Out here in Seattle, the gardening columnist in the paper once informed people that to eliminate Morning Glories, you had to make sure you got the ‘mother root’ or it would just regrow. > > The problem was that he claimed the ‘mother root’ was in a town about 35 miles north of Seattle… We’ll have to nuke Seattle from space, just to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/12 "2012-08-28T00:46:36Z")
Maybe its a regional thing, but around here ‘Morning Glory’ is another nickname for a guys…well…‘morning wood’. This thread turned out to be a lot different to what I was expecting. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/13 "2012-08-28T01:00:31Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > We’ll have to nuke Seattle from space, just to be sure. Eyeballing it in Google Maps, North Marysville. I think you’d want to make ground zero as close as possible - a near miss could just mutate it. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/14 "2012-08-28T19:17:04Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Maybe its a regional thing, but around here ‘Morning Glory’ is another nickname for a guys…well…‘morning wood’. > > This thread turned out to be a lot different to what I was expecting. Ditto. I was expecting to read that some more “active” photos of Prince Harry’s crown jewels were doing the rounds! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/15 "2012-08-30T18:00:10Z")
_Regardez_: [Photo and Video Storage | Photobucket](http://s1171.photobucket.com/albums/r542/Atomic_Mama/) So THERE ! :eek: :rolleyes: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/16 "2012-08-30T18:54:54Z")
Thought # 1: the flowers and perching spots will probably help draw hummers to the feeder. Thought # 2: the leaves on the vines in that pic are narrower, more pointy, more heart-shaped than [leaves](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morning_Glory_Leaves_3284px.jpg)on most [cultivated](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MorningGlories-Tonsofem.jpg)morning glories. Methinks you might have what I have: a hybrid between the cultivated kind and the wild (bindweed) cousin. (I planted a bunch of “Heavenly Blue” and other varieties when we first moved to this house, and when they started popping up, I thought “Man, they all sprouted-- … What the hell? I didn’t put seeds _there._.” A few years of morning glory promiscuity, and I’ve developed my own hybrid. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/17 "2012-08-30T19:11:03Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Maybe its a regional thing, but around here ‘Morning Glory’ is another nickname for a guys…well…‘morning wood’. For this reason I was only about 80% certain the thread was about flowers. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/18 "2012-08-31T01:23:04Z")
Wow - they really ARE attacking the hummingbird feeder! ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/19 "2012-08-31T01:40:38Z")
Whoa! Those are some aggressive morning glories. I used to have cultivated morning glories, but now I only have…bindweed. Grrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820/20 "2012-08-31T02:07:04Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Thought # 1: the flowers and perching spots will probably help draw hummers to the feeder. > > Thought # 2: the leaves on the vines in that pic are narrower, more pointy, more heart-shaped than [leaves](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morning_Glory_Leaves_3284px.jpg)on most [cultivated](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MorningGlories-Tonsofem.jpg)morning glories. Methinks you might have what I have: a hybrid between the cultivated kind and the wild (bindweed) cousin. (I planted a bunch of “Heavenly Blue” and other varieties when we first moved to this house, and when they started popping up, I thought “Man, they all sprouted-- … What the hell? I didn’t put seeds _there._.” A few years of morning glory promiscuity, and I’ve developed my own hybrid. 😃 They look like a version called “Grandpa Ott’s” morning glories. I love the color of them but they are much more enthusiastic growers than “Heavenly Blue”. I haven’t deliberately planted any in five years or more but they are tangling with all my other flowers and have been doing so for weeks now. They are very enthusiastic volunteers. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morning-glories-gone-viral/632820.md?page=2)