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Yesterday I bought a Blue Fortune Agastache and a Passion Vine "Inspiration." After googling growing passion vine in a pot, I decided to try it. I'm going to make a trellis for it out of dried bamboo stakes. Today I worked in my back yard and it was fun to watch the bees trying to bulldoze their fat little bodies into the tubular flowers of various salvias.

Donna , Texas Gulf Coast, zone 9

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There is a passiflora that is hardy up here; just not that one.

Nan

Donna you have two good finds. I looked up your passion vine and it is beautiful! Those bees will really enjoy your Blue Fortune Agastache. They go nuts over it in my yard.

I don't have pictures from this year, but we're growing morning glories, lantanas, trumpet vines, and ones that I'm not remembering at this moment - along with 11 acres of wildflowers scattered about.

A couple of days ago I was at a nursery and saw a hummer on a bottlebrush. I put out my feeders and saw them this morning. I don't get very many in the spring. Get lots in the fall.

Donna

Mexican Flame Vine in full bloom
 

All sorts of different butterflies and skipper moths love is plant. Wish I could figure out how to germinate the seeds. I've tried numerous times by cuttings and also by the dried flower seed heads, but haven't solved the mystery yet...any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.:surprised:

Lamb's ears

Spectacular photos! The colors!

Donna

I agree! Gala those photos are just gorgeous. And..... I learned something. I have never thought of Lamb's Ears as a hummingbird plant. I will have to put it on my list of native plants that attract these birds.

Gardenboy, you finally have me stumped. I do not know what that plant is but it is magnificent. Do you know what it is? You might have to try dividing it's roots when it is done blooming to get yourself another one of the plants that I am drooling over.

Mexican Flame Vine is what it's called.

Thank you. I looked it up and it says that it is very easy to start from cuttings or seed. Perhaps these might help you.

[url]https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/vines/mexican-flame-vine/caring-for-mexican-flame-vines.htm[/url]

[url]https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2111146/propagating-mexican-flame-vine[/url]

GreenGo, you've got hummingbirds in Canada already??? I better get my feeder out!

Nan

Here is the link to the 2018 Hummingbird Migration Maps. This one is for the Ruby-Throated.

[url]http://hummingbirds.net/map.html[/url]

Get those feeders out....

Thank you for the map. That's exactly what I needed to know.

Nan

You are more than welcome Nan.

No, these are last year's pics

Our shed in Fl.
 

[QUOTE=MissS;697181]Here is the link to the 2018 Hummingbird Migration Maps. This one is for the Ruby-Throated.

[url]http://hummingbirds.net/map.html[/url]

Get those feeders out....[/QUOTE]

We use a Purple Bleeding Heart,Bauganvilla,Blue sky vine,a white something,The Gardenia is 8 ft.The thatch keeps shed cool,now inside,70 80 at most.Outside 90 maybe.Best Hurricane strap down,burglar thorns at 4 inch.Afraid to look underneath.:no:

Passion Vine
 

There has been discussion in this thread regarding passion vines. This is one I saw this morning when I was at a local nursery. It was labeled simply "purple passion vine."

Donna

More passion vine
 

This one was labeled "Pura Vida." I didn't buy any of the vines today because I purchased an "Inspiration" one a few days ago and I don't have room for more vines.

Donna

Georgia Okeefe
 

[QUOTE=SpookyShoe;697365]There has been discussion in this thread regarding passion Vines. This is one I saw this morning when I was at a local nursery. It was labeled simply purple passion vine.

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She has a couple prints out there somewhere I think I saw.She did mostly orchids which we have hidden,also those Venus fly traps etc.There is a two fold discussion among some regarding the resemblance of those petals.I stay away from that one.Passion fruit which we have gets confused also,but both are that brilliant red,vermillion.I dunno.

A few more.

Buddelia davidii, Mina lobata or Spanish Flag and Hibiscus.


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I can't get over the spectacular colors. Photoshop not needed.

Donna

Passiflora Edulis Flavicarpa
 

I have fresh passion fruit vine seeds if anyone needs/wants some. My vines are loaded. Have over 100 fruit so far..waiting for them to ripen and drop from the vines. Best grown in tropical climate with high humidity and full sun. Will stand a frost of 32 degrees..leaves will fall off but will quickly recover in the Spring.:)

What does a passion fruit taste like?

Nan

The passiflora edulis flavicarpa variety taste like a little like strawberries and guava mixed together. The fruit pulp is more sweeter the longer you let it ripen. I let mine ripen until the yellow skin or rind starts to wrinkle. I love to mix the pulp with my vanilla bean ice cream or make a smoothie. Can also mix with yogurt. :)

[QUOTE=Gardenboy;699667]The passiflora edulis flavicarpa variety taste like a little like strawberries and guava mixed together. The fruit pulp is more sweeter the longer you let it ripen. I let mine ripen until the yellow skin or rind starts to wrinkle. I love to mix the pulp with my vanilla bean ice cream or make a smoothie. Can also mix with yogurt. :)[/QUOTE]

Yummy! Thank you for my seeds, I sowed 12 of them about 2.5 weeks ago, they are just starting to emerge today. All at once! I can't wait , very excited.
My corky stem passion vines are getting decimated by Zebra Longwings, our state butterfly, and our native passiflora.

[QUOTE=Gardenboy;699667]The passiflora edulis flavicarpa variety taste like a little like strawberries and guava mixed together. The fruit pulp is more sweeter the longer you let it ripen. I let mine ripen until the yellow skin or rind starts to wrinkle. I love to mix the pulp with my vanilla bean ice cream or make a smoothie. Can also mix with yogurt. :)[/QUOTE]

Oh, that does sound good!

Nan

Passiflora Inspiration
 

I bought one a couple of weeks ago and thought I could grow it in a very large pot on my patio. Wrong! The thing is growing at an alarming rate and is already taller than the "trellis" I put around the plant in the pot.....(I confess I used a tomato cage as a trellis). Anyway, I moved the pot (not an easy task) against the fence, but I need to find ASAP some tall trellises to put between the pot and the fence to support the vine. The thing grows like some monster.:?:

Anyway, I hope to get blooms and fruit this summer.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast, zone 9

You may have to wait and see. Some passiflora hybrids are crossed and the flowers become sterile and will not produce fruit. Time will tell, but you should get a great display of flowers. Perhaps it will cross pollinate and you might get fruit. :|