Flower Specifications
- Season: Annual
- USDA Zones: 3 - 10
- Height: 120 inches
- Bloom Season: Summer through fall
- Bloom Color: White
- Environment: Full sun to partial shade
- Soil Type: Poor quality, pH 6.1 - 7.8
Planting Directions
- Temperature: 70F
- Average Germ Time: 7 - 21 days
- Light Required: No
- Depth: 1/4 inch
- Sowing Rate: 6 - 8 seeds per foot
- Moisture: Keep seed moist until germination
- Plant Spacing: Thin to 12 inches
- Care & Maintenance: See: Morning Glory
Morning Glory (Ipomoea Tricolor Pearly Gates) - The Pearly Gates variety of Morning Glory features a profusion of stunning, large, pearl-white flowers. It's a prolific bloomer from early summer until the first frost. It also has elegant heart-shaped leaves that are attractive as well. It is a vigorous climber that thrives in the heat of summer, it creates a lush, vertical accent in the flower garden. Provide a trellis or pergola, and this climber will climb it! You can even allow it to scramble through shrubs and borders.
Deadhead as needed to prevent seeding and to ensure prolific bloom. If you want Pearly Gates to self-sow the following spring, then leave some of the dead flowers on the vine in order for it to drop its flower seed. Remove entire plant after first hard frost.
Growing Morning Glory Pearly Gates from flower seed is easy. Because they have a hard seed coat, nicking the seed coat with a knife tip or rubbing seeds with a piece of sandpaper will improve germination. After nicking the seeds, place them in a bowl and soak overnight in warm water.
Seeds can be planted directly outdoors in any reasonably good garden soil that receives at least six hours of bright light during the day. Sow Ipomoea flower seeds after all danger of frost has passed, 6 - 8 seeds per foot. Thin to 12 inches apart. To get a jumpstart in the spring, seeds can be planted indoors in a container and then transplanted outdoors when they have 2 - 3 leaves.
