Some years ago, I had the summer sun beating against the back wall of the house (we had just bought) and heating up our master bedroom. I purchased a number of small peat pots, planted morning glories in half of them and mixed gourd seeds in the other half. I put them in the ground roughly 8(?) feet or so out from the base of the wall alternating glories and gourds. I then strung strong twine from the attic joists to wooden stakes driven next to each peat pot. As he plants grew, I trained them onto each string, and shortly I had a beautiful, shaded back wall with glories blooming and mixed small gourds hanging there with them all the way up to the roof line. Made a world of difference inside.
One word of caution - if you're not careful and watching for the glories that spring up in your yard from the seeds of the flowering plants, you will soon have nothing but glories filling up your yard. It is a very determined little vine.
Some years ago, I had the summer sun beating against the back wall of the house (we had just bought) and heating up our master bedroom. I purchased a number of small peat pots, planted morning glories in half of them and mixed gourd seeds in the other half. I put them in the ground roughly 8(?) feet or so out from the base of the wall alternating glories and gourds. I then strung strong twine from the attic joists to wooden stakes driven next to each peat pot. As he plants grew, I trained them onto each string, and shortly I had a beautiful, shaded back wall with glories blooming and mixed small gourds hanging there with them all the way up to the roof line. Made a world of difference inside.
One word of caution - if you're not careful and watching for the glories that spring up in your yard from the seeds of the flowering plants, you will soon have nothing but glories filling up your yard. It is a very determined little vine.