Originally Posted by
OldHairTwister
They sure are moonflowers!!! Have had them in my garden for 50+ years and in my parents garden all of my growing up years. They go through beautiful stages as they open and in the morning the kind of curl back around themselves before finally closing up and drying and then falling off leaving the prickly pod that are "full" of seeds.
The blooms only last for one day, much like the daylily. I did hear in the last year or two that the seeds are a halucigen.
We in Northern Ireland have this WEED and it runs through the hedges and everywhere it can. I got it in my garden through bringing soil in from a farm and it is a real pain. I have had to did out a complete flower bed to try and get rid of it. It curls itself round plants and chokes all in front of it. The roots travel below the soil and they is very hard to kill with weed killer but I will persevere until I see the last of it. I did have Datura last year which I had as house plant and it was beautiful with large trumpet flowers in pink but it died off and I didn't know to save the seeds.