Has anyone had success with moonflower vine? And if so, can you give your general location?
I've tried for YEARS to get them to go in S.E. Michigan and have only gotten a sprout once but it died. 
I'd like to experience one before exiting this spinning ball!!!
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Moon flower is a member of the Morning Glory Family, and will thrive year after year from seed if planted in a protected location. Mulching area where vines were in Fall will protect seeds thru Winter. Lots of sun and heat in the Summer
Leafhead
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Apr 17, 2018
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I've yet to have a Heavenly blue reseed, and there's plenty of mulch around for them. In our area, or at least on our street, morning glories, save for the wicked kniola, have to be planted annually.
It may me a little cold to grow Ipomea alba or Moonflower in your zone. Ipomea purpura or Morning Glory will grow up to zone 4.
@Leafhead It gets pretty warm though where I used to put morning glories, too warm in afternoons for the Heavenly blue. I had to baby them w/misting on hot afternoons. Used to plant them for my husband & they would climb up our railings providing a gorgeous screen.
As an aside it was interesting, and AGGRAVATING to see that the kniola would "fight" with them. It's like the two would NOT grow together. What happened was the blues diluted the deep black purple of the kniola next years but the blues would not reseed, leaving me to an unnamed botanical tier in Dante's inferno perpetually yanking kniola. NEVER again. Do NOT plant kniola unless you care to risk never seeing another type of morning glory without a struggle.
@Qualia
Morning Glory isn't at the top of my list for this very reason. I have seen other gardeners pull their hair out over these overtaking monsters. I have also seen MG scale trees and traverse telephone lines!
The only thing I have seen using MG are hummingbirds, and I can easily top MG in that area with some Cardinal Flower and some Salvia.
My advice: keep pulling and plant something there that may be allelopathy to MG. Wild Ginger may do the trick.
Oh, don't give up. According to thisd very helpful website, you can grow them as annuals in your zone. They are beautiful. Here is th write up:[gardeningknowhow.com]
Spinliesel
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Apr 17, 2018
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@Spinliesel Thank you so much! I will be checking the link out later. ((( hugs )))
I've never seen one in person
Sadly my location is far north NSW Australia, There are patches of them near a town called Murwuillumbah. I assumed they were a mutation of the Blue morning glory which is a noxious weed here. These are clearly white and grow all over an old house.
Rugglesby
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Apr 17, 2018
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Oy. That happened when I planted Kniola morning glory one year. They were all "ooooh feel sorry for us we are the delicate goth purple flower, love us" ...then RAWWWWR they're everywhere and they "beat up" the heavenly blues. I've now been fighting kniola for oh... 10 years (I now check EVERYTHING for virulency reviews before planting)
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