Dwarf Morning Glory Royal Ensign Seeds

The Dwarf Morning Glory Royal Ensign is a beautiful annual that features blue trumpet-shaped flowers with bright yellow and white centres that open with the sunlight. The Dwarf Morning Glory Royal Ensign produces flowers similar to those of Ipomoea.

Native to the larger Mediterranean Basin, Convolvolus tricolour is better known as Morning Glory. It produces flowers from July to October in the shape of trumpets. 3 to 5 cm in diameter with golden yellow throats surrounded by a pure white ring. Its name pertains to the fact that its flowers open early in the morning only to close once the sun comes down. It has a medium green foliage and bears its flowers on long pubescent stems that grow at the axils of its leaves.

The flowers of Morning Glory are easily mistaken for Ipomoea flowers but this is the only similarity between the two genera. Morning Glory is not at all a climbing plant. On the contrary, its spreading, mounding habit and its height of only 25 to 40 cm, makes it better suited to the borders of flowerbeds. This beautiful Convolvulaceae also enhances pots or urn planters that are placed up high, with its tendency to spill over and trail. It prefers full sunlight but can also grow in half shade.