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NATURALLY I WANT IT all !
attractive & hosts for butterflies, beautiful
blooms, fragrance & fruiys.
What to choose ?
PASSIS - which are best fior Texas ???
Inspiration or Lady Margaret would be good to start with, but we have the wild ones down here everywhere. They vine, need sun.
I love the color of Lady Margaret but
I "think" I read that she or red ones
are not native , therefore either
poisonous to little cats or else they
don't find them appetizing. ?
I am in zone 8a also, and have been told Lady Margaret will not survive in this zone. If that is not true I sure would like to get one. I do have growing in my yard Maypop ( blue) wish also to find the (white) one.
They might be invasive. I grow the regular old type that you see everywhere. They freeze down to the roots but come back in the spring. If the horses haven't stepped on them. I just bought another one but when I saw 38 in the forecast for the middle of next week Im going to hold off planting it.
BajaBlue
I love the link you posted.
I have many Passifloras ... but in my garden they really don't grow very much ... the caterpillars of butterfly always find them and they are constantly eating the leaves ... it is ok, because that's why I planted them.
i had two. one vined beautifully for me, bloomed only one year. comes back every year, even after the drought a couple of years ago. the other vine had different leaves, was always spindly, and never did much. i GUESS this one is a native (?) because i've seen one growing in the woods with the same leaves, but nothing ever comes of it either.
Lady Margaret has not been hardy for me here, but I was growing it in a pot. It is still worth the investment because it's so beautiful. After all, it's only $3--I pay more than that for a lot of my annuals. Anyway, if you plant it in the ground and mulch heavily, it might come back.