Welcome to the Gardner's World magazine's Sewalong series, the podcast that inspires you to grow more from seed.

Thank you. Hello, I'm Lily and I'm a content creator at gardenersworld.com and I'm going to be talking about morning glory, heavenly blue. I garden on a small balcony in West London and it can be a challenge to choose what to grow on such a small space. I've had a number of failures and successes over the years, from a fern that was quite literally fried in the heat wave last summer,

to an ever-growing cycloman collection that bring me flowers and colour for months on end over the winter. What it does offer me is a fresh challenge each year.

Every January I can sit and ponder what to do with it this year.

Will I dedicate a corner to crops, try my luck once again with tomatoes,

or will I create a cut flower garden, tempting and potentially useful in my recent obsession

with dried flowers and the various crafts you can do with them.

I try not to buy two mini plants each year and always grow a number of things from seed.

I love that moment of planting a seed and doing everything in your power to help this little energy source burst into life.

Seed growing in a one bedroom flat without any glass houses or sheds can be a challenge

and my fiancé gets slightly frustrated at the scattering of soil on the living room floor.

But all is soon forgiven when spring and summer brings with it a stunning display, hopefully.

There are a couple of things I look for when choosing what to grow from seed on the balcony.

Number one, it has to be quite fast growing.

There's limited floor space for my seedlings, on each thing as I can move from the living

room floor of my flat, also known as my plant nursery, to the balcony as quickly as possible.

Luckily it's a sheltered spot so this is usually quite easy and I do get away of moving

things outside earlier than you might in an exposed spot in a garden. And secondly, something that doesn't take up much room on the balcony, but packs a punch.

Morning glory heavenly blue does just the trick, and so I've loyally grown it for the past few years.

But it's not just the convenience that draws me to this plant.

It's the beauty of the flowers and the vivid green of the winding stems and leaves that

bring me back to it year after year.

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