The evil enchantress, Morning glory,

Several years ago I decided that our garden was doing good, but it would be nice if it was more colorful.  Morning glories are a beautiful flower and we have had such good luck with them in the past.  The past being when we did not have a garden.  I just love the variety of colors that you get out of them and they are such a good ground cover, hmm.   So I choose to plant morning glories along the north fence.  I can still remember my wife saying “that is a bad idea, I would not do that”.  Silly though how hard can it be to contain a little vine with flowers that only open in the morning.  And (I told her) if it doesn’t work out we will not plant them next year.  Well that was several colorful and viney years ago.  Now we have morning glories all along the east side of our property and along the road for half a mile or so.  We still do have them on the side of the garden and it doesn’t matter how many I pull up, they do not seem to want to leave.  Usually by the end of the year they have taken over all the fences in an all-out battle for supremacy.  We’ll all this to highlight to important gardening tips.  First the word perennial and vine should spell danger keep away from the garden.  Second it is ok to listen to your wife about some of this stuff.  I will try to put up late summer pictures of your morning glories and if you want seeds let me know, I might just have some scattered around!