Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
What’s more freakish and fabulous than a passionflower bloom (Passiflora spp. and cvs., USDA Hardiness Zones 6-11)? They come in a bizillion colors and sizes, bloom all summer, and if you live in a warm enough climate, might even give you something to eat! Here’s a particularly stunning specimen in the conservatory at Wave Hill in the Bronx, New York. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a tag, but if you feel a sudden urge to own a passionflower, check out the selection over at Logee’s.
Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
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Comments
I love my own passion flower, 'Clear Sky'. Yours is just as beautiful. Possibly 'Lady Margaret'. I'd love to have a red one like that!
This is the most beautiful flower..thanks for sharing !!!!
We LOVE them, too. Along the perimeter of our lot, we have a rough-hewn timber fencelinewhere I've planted purple Porterweed and Lady Margaret passionvines. Gulf frittilary butterflies lay eggs and feed on the passionvine then feed on the Porterweed blooms after becoming butterflies.
I looked up this flower on http://www.zone9tropicals.com and it appears to be an lalata Ruby Glow.
http://www.zone9tropicals.com/-c-30.html?gclid=CJWayczf0KUCFZdS2god4lBfmw
I also use Margarita sweet potato vine as unifying groundcover in several beds across the front yard. Yellow Sulphurs lay their eggs/feed on it then feast on the Porterweed, too.
Passionflowers are so gorgeous they don't look real. 77355, Your lot sounds spectacular, must be nirvana for the butterflies.
I do love passion flowers, such an alien looking flower. I also love the sculptural quality of it. Have you ever seen this fantastic sculpture of a passion flower by artist Ruth Moilliet. http://stoneartblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/plant-kingdom-source-for-inspiration.html?utm_source=BP_recent
A truly fantastic sculpture, of a truly fantastic flower.
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