See the immature, green fruit? When ripe, it is orange, and full of gelatinous seeds. Then, I can plant it near another fence! (I need to remove that morning glory vine that will compete with the passiflora!)
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Passion in the Garden
I finally have established passionflower in a place my garden where it won't smother nearby plants.. A few years ago, I was walking by a beautiful passionflower vine that would soon be torn out due to construction. So, I gathered some ripe fruit and planted it next to a fence. This is the lovely, native passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) and I have posted about it before. Once established, it grows easily, though a very cold winter can kill off the plant. In this case, the plant will likely have set seed to grow all over again.
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