Sweet Potato Vine Purple Flowers

How to grow a purple sweet potato vine.

Sweet potato vine purple flowers.

One of the easiest ways to create multi seasonal interest in the garden is to use plants with interesting foliage. While the ornamental sweet potato plants don t often flower when blackie does it produces lavender or purple trumpet like flowers. One of the most versatile plants around you can grow sweet potato vine in sun or shade and in container gardens landscapes or garden beds and borders. The plant is loved for its colorful chartreuse purple bronze copper or black foliage.

Edible sweet potato vines and some ornamental varieties bloom with flowers that resemble morning glories in shape but some ornamental sweet potato vines do not flower according to missouri. With edible sweet potatoes as with most root crops and herbs it is important to remove any flowers. However if a sweet potato flower does occur it resembles its cousin the morning glory convolvulus spp mostly in shades of light blue to purple. Sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas named for its edible cousin is an ornamental warm season annual grown for its attractive leaves and vining habit the foliage lends a tropical feel to the garden and comes in a range of colors and varying forms.

Sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas blackie is a fast growing tropical vine that gracefully spills over the edges of patio containers or hanging baskets.