Wild things here, those Maypops. ^..~ ...lol They come up in every unexpected place in the kitchen garden.
My real name is Laurel.
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Where is everybody?
How exciteing i just had a DG article writer ask to use one of my pictures in an article I'm so humbled that my picture was chosen^_^
Congratulations to you Harmony! That is very exciting! Can you tell us the article topic?!
It's going to be about fall leaf watching.
Yes, congrats. Keep us posted.
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Beautiful passion vine Laurel. Here's my beauty. My grandma had one while I was growing up. So I had to have one in my own garden -- very fond memories.
Congrats on the pic selection Harmony!
I am loving all of the flower pictures. I have no flower gardens at the moment, except for a few peonies and hostas. But I can see me in the flower part of DG all winter looking forward to spring,
Sheila
P.S. What are some easy beautiful flowers that chickens won't eat.
Heres my flower garden from this spring
heres some nice zinnia's cana's and a hibicus
I'm sure what the answer to your question is Sheila. I've had to fence off my poor mulberry tree sapling... they LOVE it! My trouble is not so much with them eating things, its just that all of my flower beds seem to make irresistible dirt baths. They kick all the dirt out and make big dust bowls. Since I just have the three its not that bad, though. I figure when my flowers are more mature it won't matter as much.
Passion vine, now I have to get me some of them. OMG that is just beautiful.
How about this passion vine
WOW! Wren where do yall get so many varietys of these beautiful passion vines and a bigger question where can i get some?
Beautiful all! I have the wild perennial one, passiflora incarnata.
Back at you with the zinnias, Harmony. We have them growing between the cabbages and across the path with the asparagus.
MayPop i love zinnias they are so easy to grow and the butterflys love them.
Heres proof of how much butterflys love them
www.logees.com has a lot of passion vines. I just get "White Wedding" and two more blues
WOW!! That is Beautiful thanks for the link Wren
Wren, how hardy are your "pops"? I know there are varieties with better fruit than mine.
Harmony, we share the butterfly love. The mantids have learned about the zinnia cafeteria. We find piles of butterfly wings on the ground in spots where the mantids have claimed a zinnia territory.
Are chicken people always random? I've enjoyed this thread. I've even learned new things about chickens!
Laurel
some are and some are not
I have some fruiting types starting but the GF butterflies keep finding them I do not know how hardy the fruiting types are. I get the seeds from www.hihirts.com or Hi hirt's greenhouse and flowers
Well I'm a part time chicken person and i do alot of other things i have a flower garden and a herb garden and a love of antique's.
I'm also and avid fisher woman and can out fish most men and i also do photography to some extent.
Chickens started out as a pet turned to a hobby and is now a small business and i now breed Doves and pigeons.
I'm random all the time and can talk on about any subject and enjoy good conversation no matter what it's about.
So feel free to talk i will move to the garden forum and talk flowers if you like?
I ramble all over the place. Am interested in almost everything. Thats why I stop in here and all the other forums that I like. I know a tiny bit about a lot of things, but my battered brain some times gets them mixed up. Love all animals and all flowers except the green ones.
Wren, those are some very beautiful passion vines. Mine was planted this spring. So I only got a couple of blooms. I just love them. Not to get religious on people, but did you know that some people associate that story of Christ being told in the petals and pistils of the plant?
Are passion vines perenials (sp?)
I always forget which is which... annual means it only lasts one year and perennial means it comes back every year, right? If so, yes, they are perennial. They are frost hardy - at least mine is - to something below 20. If they do get a heavy frost they will freeze back to the roots, but still grow again the next spring.
Some varieties also have the edible passion fruit -- that'd be my next purchase.
I didn't know that thanks i will have to get 1 or 2 or 3 who am i kidding i'm compulsive when it comes to flowers.
How about something below minus 20?
The place that I order is local and I think they specialize in our climate, but it'd be worth a look. They ship and have AMAZINGLY cool plants.
The site home page:
http://www.onegreenworld.com/
The passion flower info:
http://www.onegreenworld.com//index.php?cPath=6_155
wow do they get actual fruit on them because i have one that is a wild one and has never gotten one but i also have another one and it is getting its first fruits now
some do develop fruit IF they are cross pollinated but as some of the bugs that do it are not found everywhere it has to be done by hand.
Be warned that some of the Passion vines are invasive monsters and will try to take over the world!!!!!! I grow them in pots and I grow most of them for the caterpillars mostly for the Zebra Longwing butterfly.
Did you say caterpillers do they eat the leaves and make cacoons if they do i'm all for that i grow fennel, dill, milk weed and alot of butterfly varietys to attract them to my place.
Yes you would probably get the GF up there.ZL is a sub tropical butterfly and we are at the top of its zone. You would need the soft leave passion vines. The passiflora incarnata is best for butterflies but it is one you better keep in a large pot as it will take over the world. The red I pictured above is ok for them "Lady Margaret but the other reds are not.
Lavender Lady,and Maypop is also eated by the cats.
You might also like the native "Dutchman's pipe vine"(make sure it is the native." there are two cats that like it.
Sandy
Thanks i have book marked this page and will print it so i will know what to get.
Thank you i love butterflys and want to provide them with a place to feed and lay eggs for cats.
Up where you are th "passiflora incarnata" would probably not be a invasive as it is down here, as the cold should knock it back some. But it is the best for the butterflies and it has a pretty and fragrant flower.
Incarnata is not strongly invasive like trumpet vine or wisteria, but will spread in the right conditions. It's very difficult to germinate from seed. We do get Gulf frittilarias all over it and they bother nothing else. We have Dutchman's pipes too. I think we get Swallowtails on those. The fruit of incarnata reminds me of pomegranate but more tart. Here is one growing outside a tomato cage. They are not very heavy leaved (especially when the caterpillars finish feasting).
L
How would i go about germinateing it?
Can i grow it on a trellis or a tomato cage like yours so i can keep it confined.
Down here they are very invasive but we do not get as cold as you up there do.
I had the Polydamas or the Gold rim swallowtail on my pipe vine infact 4 broods.. I hope to get the other pipe vines so I can have the pipe vine swallowtail next year
Easier to by a plant.
Oh my goodness I feel like I just stepped into the twilight zone. This is all FRENCH to me!!
Chicken names are so much easier to pronounce :) LoL
Sorry Music we got started talking about passion vines and totally forgot this is the poultry forum.