Yeah, I think your last thought is your best one - it's quite possible (I'm not certain, having killed the only one I ever tried by overwatering it - a first for me!) that it only blooms when days are a certain length (like in early summer) or has some other trigger like that, which would mean no matter what you do, they won't bloom until it's their time. And really, after it's been stressed like it has, you don't want it to bloom: blooming takes much energy away from developing the all-important root system, which is what will keep it from getting stressed again next year. Let the poor thing hibernate and I bet it will reward you for it.

HTH!

Hmmmm....I use to grow this. Doesn't it only bloom once per year? As I recall, mine only bloomed in the spring to early summer. Of course with all the different things called Morning Glory, I'm not sure we are talking about the same one. Are you talking about the one with white flowers? Convolvulus cneorum. It also has a silvery gray foliage. I just looked on Desert Tropcial, and it says it blooms from March to October, but I sure never remember mine blooming for that length of time. It could be "Alan"zheimer though :)

Easy

Easy

Here is a link that might be useful: Desert Tropicals - Convoluvulus cneorum

Well from reading desert-tropicals.com, it said there that it bloomed spring to fall, so I don't know for sure. I'm just glad that the foliage looks healthy after all I put it through, so for now I guess I will just pretend it's and evergreen shrub, and be happy I didn't kill the poor thing!

Yes, mine bloom at the beginning of summer. By mid-end summer they look kinda crappy and now that it is *starting* to cool down, they are beginning to look better. Overwatering is bad and I have never fed mine.

HTH
Susie

You may have put too much nitrogen fertilizer around it try to nurse it back from the herbicide. Nitrogen tends to force vegetative growth at the expense of blooms. Try a little high-phosphorus fertilizer like bloom-booster, or better yet a phosphorus-only fertilizer like Triple-phosphate. That should remind it to bloom again.

Boy, someone sure searched to bring up this old thread! Ain't that weird?

For the record....what we normally grow as ground morning glory (the blue one) is actually c. mauritanicus, a native to subsaharan africa...ignore it and it will grow......I used to raise african tortoises whose favorite meal was this native plant.

Lynn...wondering why some people are so bored they have to search for dead threads to respond to...

desertrubble - lol now I am resurrecting this ancient thread. I'm not bored at all, just doing a search about pests on Morning Glories and it pulled this thread up in their archive. Hope life's been kind to you the past 12 years =)