Bow Tie Vine, Costa Rican Butterfly Vine, Purple Wings (Dalechampia dioscoreifol

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Clare_CA Ventura, United States(Zone 10b) Jun 17, 2005

Bow Tie Vine, Costa Rican Butterfly Vine, Purple Wings
Dalechampia dioscoreifolia

Dalechampia vine growing up a Bougainvillea

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seedpicker_TX (Taylor) Plano, TX(Zone 8a) Aug 25, 2005

Wow Clare!
What a great combo! Not only are they both papery, bracty flowered vines, but the color combo is awesome!
Great job!
That makes me want to duplicate it! lol...
I'm impressed!
-T

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Clare_CA Ventura, United States(Zone 10b) Aug 26, 2005

Thanks, Taylor! Thank you for the compliment. Please feel free to duplicate it! It is a great color combo, and to make it even better, I have Passiflora Lavender Lady growing and blooming there as well. Here is a picture below of the three of them back in March. They look very maintained in the picture, but all three have grown to monsterous proportions without any pruning. I'll take another picture soon so you can see what it looks like now.

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Clare_CA Ventura, United States(Zone 10b) Aug 26, 2005

The colors are great together:

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Kell San Leandro, CA(Zone 9b) Aug 26, 2005

I may get this vine next year if I can find it early enough. I think it will die over winter here so I want a full summer worth of blooms. Is it a heavy bloomer Clare? THANKS

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seedpicker_TX (Taylor) Plano, TX(Zone 8a) Aug 26, 2005

Wow, a whole wall of it is magnificent!

It looks like that is a walkway to a door? Gosh, if they were only FRAGRANT vines, it would be heaven!, lol...
-T

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Clare_CA Ventura, United States(Zone 10b) Aug 26, 2005

Kell, I think it is a tropical vine and won't survive a frost or freezing temps, but it is a huge vine, and it may come back from the roots if you plant it in the spring and mulch it well come winter. It is a heavy bloomer and a huge grower once it gets established, but it takes about a year to get established. It does produce seeds when pollinated so I can save a few for you.

Taylor, yes, that walkway is the side of the house which leads to a gate off of the driveway. The passifloras on the other side are fragrant so you do get fragrance when you walk through. I have Passiflora platyloba, P. sprucei, P. belotti, P. helleri, and a P. amethystina hybrid over on the other side. There is also Confederate Jasmine at the end. The bougainvillea is forming a natural arch, and the passifloras are meeting, and with a little shaping, I think I can make an nice looking arch out of the vines and Bougainvillea.

Here's a picture that I took today.

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Clare_CA Ventura, United States(Zone 10b) Aug 26, 2005

In the sun, the different colors show up more:

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Clare_CA Ventura, United States(Zone 10b) Aug 26, 2005

It also looks nice by itself:

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Kell San Leandro, CA(Zone 9b) Aug 26, 2005

Very pretty Clare!!! You will hate it when you leave SoCal.

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Clare_CA Ventura, United States(Zone 10b) Aug 26, 2005

Thanks, Kell! LOL! I know it.

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