Morning Glory

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The common morning glory is a favorite of gardeners everywhere for good reason. The eye-catching vines are very low maintenance—they can be easily started from seed in early spring, and you don’t need to prune or deadhead them as they grow. Have a trellis or other support in place wherever you plant your seeds and the vines will soon find the support and train themselves to grow on it.

With regular watering, morning glories can start blooming by mid-summer, but many times they are slow to begin setting flowers, earning them the nickname “back to school vine.” If you want to try and speed up the flowering time of morning glories you seed yourself, you can try sowing the seeds even earlier in the spring by scattering them on the frozen ground and even on snow.

Light

Planting your morning glory in a spot that gets full sun is especially important. The flowers will only open when they are in direct sunlight, so daily exposure to full sun (at least 6 to 8 hours a day) will give you the longest amount of bloom time. If they are in a spot that doesn’t get sun until the afternoon, don’t expect “morning” glories.

Soil

Morning glories do best in soil that is moist but well-draining. A neutral soil pH of 6.0 to 6.8 is best, but morning glories will grow just about anywhere. However, they do bloom better in soil that is not too rich in organic matter. You can always amend the soil later if the vines look like they are struggling.

Water

Provide your morning glories with regular water, about one inch per week, and mulch around the roots to retain moisture. The biggest moisture needs come during the plant’s growing period. Once established (and in the winter, if your zone is warm enough to grow the plant as an annual), you can slow your watering cadence.

Temperature and Humidity

Morning glories easily tolerate both cold and warm temperatures; they are hardy and can even make it through the first frost and continue to bloom. They are grown as an annual in areas where the temperature drops below 45 degrees Fahrenheit and can be perennials in tropical and subtropical climates. They have no special humidity needs.

Fertilizer

Feed your morning glories with a low-nitrogen fertilizer every four to five weeks throughout their growing period. If you notice a lack of blooms, you can try a fertilizer blend that is high in phosphorous.

Morning Glory Species and Varieties

In addition to cultivars of the common morning glory, there are other Ipomea species with similar appeal:

Star of Yelta: Deep purple blooms with dark red stars and small white throats

Kniola’s Black: Another purple-flowered cultivar but with blooms even darker than those of ‘Star of Yelta’

Heavenly Blue: A popular cultivar with large azure flowers and heart-shaped leaves

alba: Also called moonflower or belle de nuit; a night-blooming species with 6-inch-wide white flowers

multifida: Known as the cardinal climber; a hybrid with relatively small but deep red flowers resembling morning glory blooms

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  1. Here we go….judicial corruption in all it’s glory!!!

    09/15/23 • BIG TECH › NEWS
    “Landmark Censorship Case Likely Headed to Supreme Court as Justice Alito Pauses Order Blocking White House From Contact With Social Media — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday paused an order that would have restricted the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies after two lower courts found key government officials likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring the companies to censor information about COVID-19.”
    By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

    EXCERPT: “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday paused an order that would have restricted the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies after two lower courts found key government officials likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring the companies to censor information about COVID-19.

    Alito’s ruling places a temporary hold on a federal judge’s injunction issued July 4 in Missouri et al. v. Biden et al., and later upheld under a Sept. 8 ruling by the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The injunction was set to take effect Sept. 18. The 5th Circuit agreed with the lower court that Biden administration officials illegally suppressed free speech on social media. But a three-judge panel issued a mixed ruling that only partially upheld the July 4 injunction.

    Alito’s pause, in effect until Sept. 22, followed Thursday’s emergency filing by the U.S. Department of Justice to the Supreme Court to stay the injunction while the high court considers whether to hear the case. The plaintiffs have until Sept. 20 to respond to the government’s request.

    Kim Mack Rosenberg, acting general counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD) told The Defender it was not surprising that Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to stay the injunction, nor that the court issued a brief administrative stay, as the 5th Circuit had also done in July. “Counsel for President Biden and the other defendants had telegraphed before the 5th Circuit at oral arguments on Aug. 10 that the defendants likely would take the case up to the Supreme Court,” she said.

    In the filing, Prelogar argued the injunction “flouts bedrock principles of Article III [regarding judicial powers], the First Amendment, and equity. A central dimension of presidential power is the use of the Office’s bully pulpit to seek to persuade Americans — and American companies — to act in ways that the President believes would advance the public interest,” Prelogar wrote.

    But, she added, “The court imposed unprecedented limits on the ability of the President’s closest aides to use the bully pulpit to address matters of public concern, on the FBI’s ability to address threats to the Nation’s security, and on the CDC’s [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] ability to relay public-health information at platforms’ request.”

    Commenting on these claims, Rosenberg said, “What is interesting to me is how tone deaf to First Amendment rights the federal government appears to be,” adding that the statement on the presidential use of the bully pulpit was particularly telling. “This is not a case about suppressing the government’s ability to express opinions in the media,” said Rosenberg. “It is about the government actively engaging with social media to suppress First Amendment rights of those who use the social media platforms to disseminate and receive information…..”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/landmark-censorship-case-biden-administration-social-media/

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