Morning Glory – Royal Ensign Bush (Heirloom) – Convolulus tricolor Annual – Your garden will set full sail with the intensely colored fluted 2″ trumpets of this true bush morning glory. Royal Blue Ensign grows easily and blooms hard to fill beds and borders with a profusion of incredibly vivid nautical blue flowers with contrasting white throats splashed with sunny yellow center. The cheerful flowers with their crisp striking colors above mounding foliage provide a long summer season of pure pleasure in any sunny location.
Variety Details
Botanical name:Convolulus tricolor
Plant type: Annual
Growth habit: Low Growing
Crop category: Flower seed
Flower character: Soil & Water: Plant in moderately fertile soil that drains well.
Recorded feature: Container Compatible
Product format: Seed packet
Sowing & Growing
Soil Temperature: above 50°F
Planting Depth: 1/2″
Germination: 7-10 Days
Height At Maturity: 12-18″
Sun/Shade: Full Sun
Spacing After Thinning: 6-8″
Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for ‘Heirloom Blue Ensign’ Bush Morning Glory and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.
Morning glories will bloom hard in mid-summer once days begin to shorten.
Place ‘Heirloom Blue Ensign’ Bush Morning Glory where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.
