Showing posts with label passion flower vine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label passion flower vine. Show all posts

Friday, October 16, 2009

Passion in the Garden

Well you've not seen anything more passionate in my garden of late than my passion flower vines. It's calling out for a post of it's own.



Blossoms, buds, new vines abound on this plant. 



It cascades off the trellis in layers, falling in abandon on vine branch after vine branch.  When these plants decide to be proficient, they really go after it. To give you the full effect, I'm just going to have to show you lots of pictures. Here goes, one after another. I just went crazy taking photographs of this beauty. It is showing off right now and who can resist a plant that has to show off.






 

 



Talk about passion in the garden, this passion vine is dong its best.  Striking three-lobed leaves just never stop and on each stalk is a blossom and more buds. And don't you just love the three layers of this flower-- petals, second layer of petals, then pistils and stamens. It just wants to be looked at.

After two days of rain the plants were sparkling with raindrops the next morning. Out in the garden and here is this show-off plant still abounding in blossoms and beauty.










I've tried to take pictures of this plant from every which-a-way to give you the idea of what's going on in this part of the garden. Passion is the only way to describe it. Now enjoy these last few and breathe in the life and joy of a passion flower in bloom.



 
Did I see a third layer of petals, the white ones?





Yes, indeedy, I did. And look at the red splotching on the pistils. What a pistol this plant is!!!