I'm just getting back from this year's Garden Fling in Buffalo, N.Y.--an amazing gathering of like-minded garden bloggers and social media mavens. More on that to come in the days and weeks ahead! Meanwhile...
Recently, I'd been thinking this could be the year: the year the Maypops (Passiflora incarnata) overwintered outdoors would bloom.
Five years ago, I planted two sets of Maypops--one in a pot that I've overwintered in the sunroom each year since, and one I planted in the garden below a trellis against the house. While the indoor plant has bloomed the past four years (obviously milder conditions), the outdoor grouping has grown but never bloomed...until now!
Imagine my surprise when we got home, and I peaked behind the foliage on the trellis to find this! Yay!
It was a little bedraggled from scorching in the hot sun without water. (And of course each individual flower only lasts a day or two.)
But after watering, a new bloom opened today, and there are several buds for more flowers in the weeks ahead! I love the way the foliage and flowers snake around supports and structures in the garden. It's such a fascinating plant.
I like the Maypops paired with another surprise this summer--bright pink Hollyhocks (Alcea rosea), also planted from a seed mix a couple of years ago.
While outdoor Maypops die back to the ground in winter in my climate, it appears I can expect these beauties to bloom going forward, even in my USDA zone 5b garden. I'm so glad I planted them!
It was a little bedraggled from scorching in the hot sun without water. (And of course each individual flower only lasts a day or two.)
But after watering, a new bloom opened today, and there are several buds for more flowers in the weeks ahead! I love the way the foliage and flowers snake around supports and structures in the garden. It's such a fascinating plant.
I like the Maypops paired with another surprise this summer--bright pink Hollyhocks (Alcea rosea), also planted from a seed mix a couple of years ago.
While outdoor Maypops die back to the ground in winter in my climate, it appears I can expect these beauties to bloom going forward, even in my USDA zone 5b garden. I'm so glad I planted them!
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