If you are planing to purchase and plant morning glory seeds in your vegetable garden, think again. Don’t.

Yes, they are beautiful plants waking each morning in all their glory, beautifying the landscape.

Some personal history.

I bought packet of seeds last Spring. I planted them next to our garden arbor. And they graced us with supreme beauty every morning.

Until.

Until they snaked and slithered through the garden strangling and suffocating their good neighbor plants; basil, parsley, tomatoes, jalapenos, sage.

Evidence #1. Strangling Sage.

There should be a warning sign above these packets of morning glory seeds in the store:

NOT FOR VEGETABLE AND FLOWER GARDENS. PLANT ONLY ALONG WHITE PICKET FENCES AND STONE WALLS.

Last Autumn I dug the plants up. What I didn’t know there were hundreds, if not thousands, of morning glory seeds buried in the garden waiting to sprout and torment me in the Spring.

Evidence #2. Not Four-Leaf Clover.

Evidence #3. Attacking Garden Frog.

Evidence #4. Climbing The Arbor.

Yes, friends, they are beautiful and I have beautiful photos of them.

This black and white reminds me of a ballet or chorus line.

When Susan and I, and our dog, Freddy, a mini labradoodle, are out and about and I see morning glories along a white picket fence or stone wall, I am pleased they are not tormenting another innocent gardener.

For now on I am sticking with Morning Glory Muffins.