Moonflower | Ipomoea alba
Fragrant white blooms are best enjoyed at dusk.
Gardening is not a just a daylight activity, and your garden does not go to sleep when you do. Nighttime is when many growers and garden visitors of all species get to enjoy the fruits of horticultural labours. Midnight pollinators flock to this evening glory, which blooms in time for your return home from work, sends out its scent for a summer dinner al fresco, and glows in the moonlight to romance all nocturnal creatures, including night owls. Grow with morning glories for blooms night and day.
Direct sow after frost, but consider helping the hard-coated seeds to germinate, either by soaking for 24 hours or by nicking the seed coat with a nail file. Keep newly-sown seeds moist. Likes full sun and moist, average soil. Provide a trellis or other support to allow vines to grow 8-12' tall.
Days to Germination 7-14
Days to Maturity 112
Planting Depth ½"
Spacing in Row 4-6"
Spacing Between Rows 24-36"
Height at Maturity 8-12'
Width at Maturity 12-24"
Sun Preference Full Sun
Artwork by Tona Wilson. This work steps into a series of works that Tona has painted depicting walls composed of many different objects. This one pairs glowing white moon flowers with shadowy figures of nocturnal animals such as bats and flying squirrels.
About Hudson Valley Seed Company
They are a values-driven seed company that practices and celebrates responsible seed production and stewardship. Hudson Valley are best known for their beautiful artist-design seed packs (Art Packs) that appeal to gardeners, gift buyers, and lovers of art and nature.
These Art Packs, most fundamentally, tell stories. Hudson Valley challenges artists to convey in a manner that is fully their own, the history and meaning of the seed variety contained in each pack. These stories were once integral to traditional societies-stories of seeds were often origin stories for entire communities and peoples, and the lore and beliefs that accumulated around seed varieties reflected the nearly familial way in which gardeners and farmers regarded their crops. Our society is, by and large, no longer connected to plants this way. But we like to think these Art Packs help to stitch our fragmented world back together: useful seeds, evocative art, both equally valuable to our experience of being human.