This section is from the book "The American Garden Vol. XI", by L. H. Bailey. Also available from Amazon: American Horticultural Society A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants.
Put your moonflower vines in the sunniest place you have and give them very rich soil if you want them to get ready to bloom before frost comes. I saw this in some floral magazine - " Plant the moonflower where it will not get so much sun" - that was not meant for Minnesota. Our season for growing plants is short, to be sure, but how they do grow while they are at it! and by doing our best with them we can have very lovely flower gardens, and a great variety of flowers. I have in my yard large oleanders, cactus, achania, pomegranate, enonymus, jessamine and passion vine, all growing in tuba. These are consigned to the cellar during winter and they bloom finely during summer - no, the jessamine and passion vine do not bloom freely, but they grow like Jack's bean stalk ! The others except euonymus, which is grown for its foliage, bloom finely. I am going to add magnolia and other southern shrubs to my "tub collection," for I can, with a frost-proof cellar and some sunny windows, grow anything, even in Minnesota. At this writing, October 6th, frost has cut down dahlias, but marigolds of different sorts, petunias, and even Salvia splendens are making the garden bright, while vines (partially protected by porches), morning glories, the different ipomeas, etc., are. still blooming.
Abutilons that were planted out last spring have grown to be immense shrubs. They are still in the ground, uninjured by frost, and are full of buds and blossoms. - Miriam Parker, Minnesota.
 
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