This is a wonderfully colored passiflora named for a wonderful woman.
Donna herself handed me this beauty when I visited (and got the private tour of) her and her husband's nursery in CA...
-T
Passiflora 'Donna Brigham'
Beautiful color.
I'm green with envy lol:-) Very nice!
Taylor, that one is purty!!! Is it cold hardy?
Kay
ahelms & Indigoez-Thank you!
Kay, they told me it probably wouldn't come back in my zone 8, but haven't tested it...
I no longer plant my passies in the ground, so all mine are potted, whether they are tropical, or not...
My first passion vine years ago was a blue boutique. I planted it in the ground, and by the next year it was popping up from underground runners as far as 30 ft. away!
I was already losing a battle with the invasive campsis runners, so this discovery of the blue boutique, cured me of ever planting passies in the ground, again....with the remnents of the blue boutique and the campsis I'm trying to kill, I'll be busy with invasive runners the rest of my life, lol...
seedpicker...what a lovely color !!! It looks wonderful !
I am sharing your experience with my passion fruit vine also...planted about 30 years ago and growing everywhere including under a brick patio and coming out between the bricks ! It is the most invasive plant in my garden along with the mint! A pot is a good way to go!
Does anyone know if clematis gets this way too? I am new to vines!
No, don't worry about the clematis. They have very long roots that grow straight down and no runners.
Clematis are classic and a great vine. They are very well behaved.
Down here in Houston passie's are "heirloom" plants....that means even your heirs will be battling them for years! LOL
Cypress vines fall under that same catagory!
Well if it survives--has seeds or can be rooted from cutting--you know WHO wants some!!! hehehe Very pretty--MUST HAVE plant!! Bonnie
I did some google searching and came up for nice links for your friends!
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050612/news_mz1hs12buena.html
http://www.buenacreekgardens.com/steve_and_donna.htm
Great story and great looking nursery !!!
yes, it is a fabulous nursery...I arrived in Palms Springs, CA, then rented a car, drove several hours to their nursery to buy this passie!
Only to find out they were closed that day...She felt bad for me and ended up spending her whole day showing me around!
I took home a car full of plants, and most of them were cuttings! She has a heart of gold and I REALLY enjoyed my "private tour".
The best part of the nursery is the huge tree with the surround bench, and also the "garden room" complete with a patio set, and tea set!
Their iochromas were HUGE trees...a distictis was eating their greenhouse, lol, and a podranaea brycei was several stories high in a tree. They had the largest specimen of rosa mutabilis I'd ever seen...
there was so much to see...
It was magical, really...
I really don't know how they do it all with a staff of just a handful. VERY hardworking, and talented people!!
She told me Patrick Worley named this one after her. Another is named for her mother in law. Patrick is not only their friend, but he MARRIED the two! Patrick must be an interesing man! lol...
-T
Great story seedpicker...sounds like Donna has a heart of gold along with some very, very green fingers!!! :-))) Don't you just LOVE gardeners!!!
What a wonderful nursery that we be to visit, I just love all the tropical vines and I love seeing them when ever I can. The pictures here just make me wish for a vine tour in person. The only passi hardy here is caerula and I have one and it behaves fairly well.
Margie, Buena Creek Gardens has a daylily history too. First daylily Regional I went to was down in San Diego and this nursery was on tour. You met Bob Brooks last year at the Nationals right? He's now in retired in Hawaii, the AHS treasurer. Here is his connection to the Brighams:
"In 1970, Bob Brooks bought the 4-acre property, and with his partner Ray Chesnik began clearing the land for an iris farm. Cordon Bleu Farms specialized in bearded iris in the 1970s and hybrid daylilies in the 1980s. Most of the largest trees in the gardens were planted during this period.
In 1988, Steve Brigham was hired to help manage "The Farm" and its mail- order business. During the next 8 years, Steve developed the retail rare plant nursery, which was named Buena Creek Gardens. Bob Brooks retired in 1996 and sold the business and property to Steve."
The daylily part was closed after they got rust. Someday I would like to visit their nursery again. I would appreciate it so much more now that I am collecting different things beyond dayilies.
Here's mine-Rich
Calif_Sue and I found this passiflora today and we each bought one. 1 gallon plants for $9.99 I think. They were large ones too.
Kell where in Northern California? My plant is a killer great flowers and it took the heat here in the Sacramento area. It is supposed to handle our 26-27f cold too.-Rich
East Bay Nursery in Berkeley, we ignored that statement on the tag that it gets real big, we just had to have it! Figured pruners could keep it in check if need be, after all, it was already blooming on these 1 gal. plants.
I have mine in a 15Gal nursery pot with a trellis mounted in it, That checks the growth and it can be moved-Rich
Wow! What a beautiful color and a lovely name! Another one to add to my slobber list...lol.
:) Donna
Hmmmmmm I have never been to East Bay Nursery. I guess I will have to add that one to my circuit of nursery's I visit every few weeks.
Oh Patricia, it is a fun one. They have lots of stuff. In spring they always have different 4 inch pots great for mixed pots too. They are $$$$ though. Closed Sunday which always drove me nuts.
There is a loop there to do, 4 nurseries in about 6 minutes of driving, if that. A small one on Dwight Way (Dwight Way), just a few blocks from East Bay. Then go to Gilman I think it is and there is another small nursery on the right just after you cross San Pablo on your way to Berkeley Horticultural Nursery, I always find a few things at that one.
Then I go up to Berkeley Horticultural Nursery. We would have made all the rounds yesterday but we spent so much time Marilyn at the the Berkeley Botanical Gardens. Lusting and shopping there of course. LOL
Patricia, next time I will swing by and pick you up first bright and early, then get Kell and then we can be on our merry way with shoppings lists in hand, which will soon be thrown out the window once we arrive at all those nurseries. You haven't shopped until you go with Kell, every few feet we both spot something and she's saying "OMG , OMG"! We were both bad for each other, finding neat things in every corner. It's fun to shop with someone that loves plants as much as I do!
You'll have to see some of the pics she took.
It will be fun till we come upon a plant we both just have to have and there is only one. Then it will be murder. LOL. Sue and I just love the same plants.
We had so much fun. We talked plants nonstop for hours. Sue is such a doll. Marilyn was a real sweetheart too. She just could not have been nicer to us. She really knows her plants too. You should have heard all the huge names she was rattling off.
Marilyn is on a plant mission for me. I am in search of Cochliostema odoratissimum. I saw it at the Botanical Garden. I need this one to continue to live. It was vivid purple. Much better than the photo.
Calif_ Sue, I would love that. I bet I could be a really bad influence on the rest of you too.
Sue...will you have room in your car for one or two SJ DG'ers too? Let us know when you are going, please!
Margie
Kell, Here is a site you can order this plant from if you can't find one elsewhere.
http://naturalselections.safeshopper.com/101/637.htm?54 It is pretty pricey though.
Do you have a greenhouse to keep it in?
Oh man, I need to save my $$ then cause it's so dangerous going with plant fanatics!
East Bay has awesome large pot mixtures on display, I took a couple of shots from last time I was there so I can try to duplicate them in the spring.
Sorry to steer this thread away, we will get back to passi's I am sure eventually.
Well, what we could do is take a couple car's. I could meet you ladies from S.J. somewhere closer to Kells so you don't have to go out of your way, and then we could split between two car's and follow each other. We have to have room for plants too.
That sounds GREAT Patricia! Sounds like a plan...so they say!
See you tomorrow at the RU ! It would be nice if Sue and Kell could be there also...
Yes Margie, I was saying to Kell that the next time we have to bring my Mom, Tracy and you along, we both planned this on short notice really. It took us so long because we stopped so often to check little surprise finds out everywhere, we never even made it to Berkeley Hort Nursery and only had about 1/2 hr at East Bay. I didn't get home until 7:00.
I can't afford to do this too often but it sure was fun, especially since only DGer's speak the same language!
Here's the other pot I want to copy, Kell picked up the cool silver dicrondra, it's the latest potted plant thing!
Three years ago I grew about 7 variety's of passiflora's from seed , including P. Quadrangularis, then I traded them all off, and didn't even keep any for myself.
Now I could just kick myself.
I was at Regan's nursery in Fremont the other day and they had a beautiful deep
dark purple passiflora. I didn't buy it and now wish I had. I can't seem to remember the name of it off the top of my head.
I may have made a major mistake by planting some of them in the ground. I guess I will find out next Spring. Most however aren't hardy in my zone and would have to be overwintered inside though. I guess that I why I have never grow many of them, but I sure love the flowers.
We picked up very big plants of Passiflora parritae and I have Passiflora membranacea on my wish list. Berkeley Botanical has their plant sale this weekend and I can't make anything this weekend so am hoping Kell can get back up there and get that along with the Begonia boliviensis we just have to have. Wait until you see the pics she took of it, it's to die for!
My camera battery died that morning, dope me forgot to charge the night before, I was so frustrated!
I can just see it now, a caravan of nuts hopping from nursery to nursery. We will need to call ahead to tell them to have at least 10 of each hot plant so we do not fight. LOL
I stole, yes STOLE, $$ from my DH's versateller account. I was going to take $100 but decided in a moment of absolute frenzied thinking of Lapageria rosea that the stern lecture I would get from him would be the same for $100 or for $400 so I went for the big one.
And I spent it all like it was really my money. LOL. But I won't be LOL-ING when he checks his account online. Then I will be hiding. He left $200 on my desk this morning. Ask me if I feel guilty and if I am going to give it back to him. NOOOOO I am off to another nursery ASAP before he checks his account. LOL
Begonia boliviensis (I need this one a lot)
OH MY PATRICIA!! I searched and searched last night for that plant. I am emailing Enid right now to see if it will live in my house. I am so lucky my DH is nonviolent and that he loves me so!
THANKS!!!! SO MUCH!!!
Here are Sue and Marilyn. Check out the scenery.
PS Patrica. Do not buy any more passifloras till you look at those at East Bay. They had lots of different ones. They are weird though in that they have them in 2 different places. Often the 5 gallon plants are one place and the 1 gallon of the same plants in another. So you have to walk and look carefully so you do not miss the good stuff.
Guess this one is on my list. LOL
That's Marilyn (pekasky) with the cacus T-shirt, she is a volunteer cactus/suculent propagator at Berkeley Botanical. Whew, she knows her stuff! We are standing under Amorphophallus titanum, one of three in the Tropical House. http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/images/whatsnew/titanArum/titanArumInfo.shtml
Ohh, that's 'Elizabeth', right? On my wish list too. This is SO bad!
Sounds like you guys had a blast !
I am looking forward to our "caravan" trip! Count me in...
BTW...mmqc is into passion flowers. She has some tiny ones too that I didn't even know what they were...wow...she asked me if I wanted anything and I forgot about those!!! :-))) So glad I remembered!
Margie
You all sound like a riot !! And nice to meet you Sue and Marilyn, I am sure we will meet in person tomorow at the roundup. I have been going through the greenhouse like a madwomen, pulling out anything I can to bring. Now I am worried about getting it all to fit in the car, and carrying it to my spot at the roundup.
Kell I will for sure check out ebay 's for passiflora's when I get back from my next trip. I am leaving Wednesday for Georgia for five day's. But then I will be back on track with my plant hunting.
Margie, I forgot she was into passiflora's also. Is she going to be there tomorrow, for some reason I thought that she couldn't be there and someone else was picking up her plants.