I saw those too Margie, they were the sweetest little blooms. I'm telling ya, between all of us, we will soon have a wonderful Passi collection! I have plans, BIG plans! Well, not really, I am a more impulsive by-the-seat-of-my-pants collector, like I buy it on impulse and then think, oh man, where am I going to put this?! Thank goodness passi vines go up 'cause there's not much left horizontally at this rate!
Taylor, get back in here and enable us with more vines!
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Passiflora 'Donna Brigham'
Can anyone tell me how their passiflora performs bloom wise? I planted 2 passifloras this year and neither one has bloomed very much or very often. I would say about 5 blooms a month and the vines big and healthy. Pretty flower but I have been disappointed in the number and frequency of blooming.
Noooooooo Patricia, not ebay, EAST BAY Nursery. They had tons.
And we were a riot but I can't tell under penalty of death. Ever.
Shoot, plants are going to be there tomorrow. SHUCKS. Plants, food and Daver's. Can't miss being a hit.
Here is East Bay, Patricia. I took a pic so I can show my DH how I want to paint our house. But with a pink basecoat not grey like theirs, but of course.
edited to say sorry ZZSandman, I am no expert, only have a few.
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Ha, you were LONG gone way before we met!
BWAAHHHH!!!! All this talk about going on a plant caravan, and I want to go too!!!! Puhleeezzz???????
Marilyn (the one in the picture above)
Marilyn, you are leading the pack!!
Oh, boy!!! Does that mean all of the nurseries will be cactus and succulent ones?? LOL HEHEHEHEHHEHE
Actually, there's only one that I know of in the East Bay, so all of you are safe from my obsession!!
MAN!!!! I'm so darn jealous of you left coaster's and all the awesome nurseries you have! And the variety of plants they carry just blows me away. The only passie's I've seen here are belotti, caerulea andPura vida or vitafolia if your lucky and that's what I've seen over many years. if I hadn't of stumbled across this place a few years back, I'd still be playing in dreadfully boring gardens.
I have a passiflora question/observation for you folks. I decided to put a bunch of different passiflora's in the ground this summer since I made a bunch of extra cuttings. Well other than Incarnata and Belotti, the others almost never bloom! They bloom great if I keep them potted up. The vines couldn't look or be any healthier, they just won't bloom. I had a Blue bouquet and Lavender Lady that bloomed well for me last summer but not until late August. So, I've come to the conclusion that most of these babies need to be potted if you want more flowering than foliage growth. What do you all think about this 1?
I'm going to see if I can get some other passiflora's to survive or brutal winter by building compost piles on top of the 1's I planting in the ground. I've made sure I have plenty of potted back ups just incase they all die off. Incarnata is the only passie that can live through winter here. I sure wished I lived closer to you kooks!;) You sound like a bunch of fun and our gardens would be so incredible via sharing cuttings and not having to buy every plant you wanted. I wished I had more friends locally that were as addicted to Passiflora's as I am. I do have a few friends that share this love but many of them think my ability to root cuttings is rocket science. I enjoy impressing them with my propagation abilities but I'd be much happier if they would just learn so we could all benefit and take the "mystery" out of all this.
Someday I guess;)
JD
JD, I am totally new to the passi collecting (4 new ones this past 2 months) this year other than my old huge one that I have no name for that blooms almost year round. So that's a total of 5. I plan to do some research on them to see what soil, fertilizer etc to really ensure their bloom so they earn their keep. With a small garden, they don't perform, they're are out for newer things.
On a side note, I hope seedpicker_TX, who started this thread is ok after this storm.
I don't know ANYTHING about Passifloras. I rely on my compadre who's in charge of vines at the Berkeley Botanical Garden for info. I just jumped in to this thread because of kell and Sue. It's all their fault!! LOL
Hopefully those knowledgeable people will jump in with advice. I know they're here on DG!!
LOLOL You guys are funny.
I'm not sure hoe educated I am re: passiflora's. I have almost 20 varieties now, most all I rooted from cuttings friends have mailed me. I've been growing them for 5-6 years and the more I learn about them, the more I realize how little I know about them. They vary so greatly in needs it seems. I've learned that experimenting with a few cuttings of each variety is how I learn what they like the best. In early Spring, I took probably 5 cuttings each of most varieties and planted/potted them in differing ways to see what they actually preffer. This has helped with some and confused me with other.
I've come to the conclusion that most all of our lovely plant's that are desired/treasured in our gardens are actually just weeds/pests in the countries where many originate from. LOL So with many plant's, I'm learning to just step back and not overthink and complicate things too much.
This year has been the most challenging gardening year ever due to very odd weather patterns. I'm seeing pests and diseases that I didn't know existed around here. So I babied so many plants and many that I had almost given up on, we just put out in the yard. Wouldn't you know that the plant's I put out to pasture are absolutely thriving for the most part and the others I've kept potted and continued to treat are doing just "OK". LOL Go figure
JD
seedpicker...I just realized I've totally "hijacked" this thread you started and took it in another direction. PLEASE let me know if this bothers you and I will edit all my off topic stuff out pronto. I apologize and wouldn't be bothered if you'd like me to bow out. Some folks don't mind but others get flat out crazy with rage over this.
Thanks, Jeff
So you see Jeff, guess we will have to refer back to you for questions!
Here is Donna Brigham in bud form, they are so big they are also beautiful before opening!
I don't mind. You all just keep having a great time.
-T
WOW! Sue that is the wildest looking budding flower I've ever seen No other passiflora that I know of does anything like that. All that "area" above the flower pedals is very...well just wierd looking! LOL That's the pot calling the kettle black for sure!
Well now that's 1 more passie I gotta get my hands on.
This passiflora addiction is getting so out of hand since I have no green house. This will be the 3rd winter inna row where I'll have a 1000 watt metal halide growlamp set up in the window IN MY BEDROOM! LOL We cram as many plants under it as possible, we have big plant ledges built on each end of the bathroom with lights and I'm allowed to keep 1 dozen plants at my daughter's High school greenhouse. I'm allowed to keep some of the bigger ones at the school as long as I allow them to use for propagation experiments. The kids get to learn then the teacher sells almost all rooted cuttings for project funding. He tagged all these little passie cuts(most w/o a single bloom) at 10$ each and sold them all! That's some serious cash when you add up how many cuts are made per student. If I could only get organized enough to open up an online/Ebay store specializing in tropicals only. When I use those rapid rooter cubes, I can cram 40-50 tiny cuttings in 1 flat and most all root in 1 month. I've been threatening to do this for over a year and here I sit;)
LOL I'mma mess
JD