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Eat your heart out!! Moonflowers grow wild here!! Aren't they gorgeous??? A 
friend of mine in Canada had her first bloom last month and was real excited!!

Janni

>Dear fellow gardeners,
>  I saw my first moonflower open up !  This is my third year planting the 
> vine, and I had just about given up hope.  The first year I put the seeds 
> in a pot in the shade.  Oops.  Wrong thing to do I now know. I either 
> dried it out or it starved for sunshine.  Second year it got about 4-6 
> foot long but then died off.  This year I made sure to put it in a sunny 
> spot (well, that's relative as I really have a shady yard) and made sure 
> to water it like crazy.  And I've been rewarded.  Have had blossoms now 
> each night for about 2 weeks and last night I finally was outdoors 
> watching it as one blossom opened up -- whee!  It took about 8-9 mins, I 
> could see the stem and the white twisted blossom shaking every now and 
> then with the effort of opening ...finally enough of the petals had 
> opened up far enough so that the wind caught them and opened them up the 
> rest of the way.  Really neat.  And, quite frankly, I just liked having 
> those 8-9 minutes of stillness and rest, watching a large beautiful 
> flower open up slowly but surely, not wanting to blink or turn away for 
> an instant.
>
>  happy gardening!
>
>  Carolyn
>  Bethesda
>  Zone 7a
>
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Dear fellow gardeners,
 I saw my first moonflower open up !  This is my third year planting the vine, and I had just about given up hope.  The first year I put the seeds in a pot in the shade.  Oops.  Wrong thing to do I now know. I either dried it out or it starved for sunshine.  Second year it got about 4-6 foot long but then died off.  This year I made sure to put it in a sunny spot (well, that's relative as I really have a shady yard) and made sure to water it like crazy.  And I've been rewarded.  Have had blossoms now each night for about 2 weeks and last night I finally was outdoors watching it as one blossom opened up -- whee!  It took about 8-9 mins, I could see the stem and the white twisted blossom shaking every now and then with the effort of opening ...finally enough of the petals had opened up far enough so that the wind caught them and opened them up the rest of the way.  Really neat.  And, quite frankly, I just liked having those 8-9 minutes of stillness and rest, watching a large beautiful flower open up slowly but surely, not wanting to blink or turn away for an instant.

 happy gardening!

 Carolyn
 Bethesda
 Zone 7a

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