#passion flower vine

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The Gulf Fritillary caterpillar is pretty crazy looking on the Passion Flower vine - Venice, Florida

Photographer: JP Gregg

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the orange fritillary caterpillars have almost completely devoured this whole passionfruit vine, but it managed to put out one single passion flower!

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what's the one plant or tree that you wish you could grow but are unable to due to it not loving your growing zone? (unless you won the lottery and could afford making *the perfect environment* for it)

hmmmmmm, i would say mango trees or echium candicans (pride of madeira). the echiums are easy to grow, but annoyingly hard to overwinter :(

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btw i promise im working on art!!! its a slow process since ive been off my adderall but!! have some wips in the meantime :)

some really cool SM artists oc's (G.L and Ruth!)

this fuckin guy (for a pinned post on twitter telling people that im more active here, since both artists up above are on twitter)

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Passion Flowers (Passiflora)

Taken at The Yoga Garden in Melbourne, FL

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n7_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The Bouquet : Boston :Benjamin B. Mussey,1845 biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60575832

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Aww there’s a little hummingbird nest right on my porch!

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The Passion Vine finally decided to open up today 💜

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Today’s Dose of Nature: The Back Garden

A sampler of this weeks blooming things - tropical milkweed, Mexican Flame Vine, Buddleia, red passion flower, Silver Sea Oxeye Daisy, Tassel Flower, Desert Rose. This time of year in South Florida, Monarchs, Heliconia, Sulfurs, and White Peacocks are the most common butterflies.

--Steve

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The Allure of Azure: Mastering the Art of Growing Blue Passion Flowers

Embark on a captivating journey with the Blue Passion Flower in this blog. From its historical roots to its growing needs and challenges, discover the allure and satisfaction of cultivating this tropical beauty in your garden.

Picture this: A winding vine, adorned with exotic, dazzling blue flowers, curling along a trellis in your garden. That was my dream, and the star of that dream was the Blue Passion Flower (Passiflora caerulea). But cultivating this tropical beauty was more of a journey than I ever imagined. If you’ve ever dreamt of nurturing your own Blue Passion Flower, join me as I walk you through my journey.…

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Lady Margaret

Scarlet Passion Flower

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Erected a second trellis made from woven wire fence panels in this raised bed. (The first one is to the left and has snap peas growing up it). Planted loofah seeds at closest legs and some random pole beans in a few spots along the length. Random because the dried pods came from the green waste dumpster after someone's fall garden clean out (initially attracted by some marigold seedheads hanging out, but found the vines when I actually lifted the lid). They're white seeds so probably one of the more common varieties. I tend to like bush beans better than pole beans for cooking fresh, but they do take up less horizontal space and tend to do decent dried so.

Then I put up a small panel for the perennial pea vine on the end, held in place with a few short u-posts and zip ties. I also scavenged the seed for this, got it to sprout last year but not do terribly great (drought), but this year it's exploded with growth and I have high hopes for blossoms.

I've also decided that I need to move the passion vines because the bitches want to climb and I need them not to take over the supports for the tomatoes. Plus I watched a YouTube video and got a greater appreciation of just how big one vine can get when in full sun. The new bed I'm planning on replacing some grass with will be 2' x 15', run along the sidewalk, and get southern exposure so the plan is to construct a fence/trellis along the back of it for the passion vine. Unfortunately, the clay soil is much too wet to put the bed in and will be for the foreseeable future (which is the only time I will whine about the rain). Trying to figure out how trashy it will look to just construct a random section of fencelike structure in the middle of my front yard to get the vines transplanted and just...build the bed in front of it later. I guess I could just try potting up the vines, but I really don't want to kill them and they're doing so well. More research may be needed.

But now I have to pause to go gather up the chickens' food for the week. I'm hoping to get some bush beans and squash in the ground when I get back.

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n5_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Curtis's botanical magazine.. London ; New York [etc.] :Academic Press [etc.]. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/438521

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