Beautiful! You could turn that picture upside down and tell everyone they are angel's trumpets!!

I grew a moonflower about 5 years ago; the kids were young enough then to enjoy going outside in time to see them open.

Jayman, your flower, and another specimine i saw earlier make me want to grow this plant next year. Last year we tried purple, and double yellow at church but they got so eaten to the quick!! We could'nt figure out what on earth liked them so much!!

Yours are gorgeous!

GGG

Very nice, Jayman! Thanks for posting.

GGG, my bet is your moonflowers were eaten last year by tomato hornworms. They devastated mine and that's when I learned about the nightshade family connection between tomatoes, peppers, datura, brugmansia, eggplant, etc etc. Apparently the tomato hornworn turns into a beautiful moth that also loves to eat the nectar of the moonflower, and you're more likely to see the moth than the hornworm on your moonflower plants. I had been growing moonflowers for years and never had a hornworm problem until last year, when I unwittingly planted a smorgasbord of various nightshade family plants all in a row. Your description, GGG, "eaten to the quick," is what makes me pretty sure the hornworm was the culprit, because they eat the leaves right down to the stem, leaving nothing green at all. And they can chomp through a huge plant in a day's time, moving on to the next one before you notice what's happening.

The organic remedy for tomato hornworms, by the way, is to use them for fishbait.

Those are gorgeous I am so jealous. I have had every morning glory eaten down to the ground by rabbits and had not even seen any of my moonflowers sprout--eaten too quickly or did they even sprout? I don't know but finally I have something growing that I think is a moonflower but no blooms yet.