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The moonflower is growing on my husband's veggie garden enclosure (to keep out the deer, squirrels, and birds!)
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hlthe2b
(102,419 posts)--very evocative.
CrispyQ
(36,540 posts)I've never heard of a moonflower before,
mnhtnbb
(31,408 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)We grow a couple of vines every year here in central Calif.. At night the blooms are visited by big moths. Should add that the blooms release a heavenly scent as well. If you happen to be there just as a bud opens, you can hear it snap loose from it's folded state.
mnhtnbb
(31,408 posts)alfredo
(60,077 posts)and I bet they shared seeds with friends and family.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)There's also another non-vine plant that's commonly called a moonflower. They perpetuate here every year - in SPITE of my best efforts to eliminate them. Big, white blooms - just like the ones we propagate, but these free-standing plants get to be a real nuisance if they're allowed to go unchecked.
alfredo
(60,077 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)that jimsonweed (or thornapple) was a moonflower, probably because it also has huge white flowers. Not the same thing though.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)It's beautiful.
mnhtnbb
(31,408 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)which is sad because they're so beautiful. My grandmothers always had morning glories around their farmhouses in Ohio when I was a kid.