passiflora caerulea – GWENNIESGARDENWORLD

August 26, 2024August 26, 2024

HELLO AGAIN

Sorry for the long silence but I haven’t been able to take a lot of new photo’s, it’s not really a good garden year cos of the weather, it was either too hot or too wet, and all the heavy rain ruined a lot of my flowers. I do hope next year will be better. I am also trying to make the garden easier to maintain. I did manage to take a few new pictures though.

Garden geranium, one of my favorites

This hydrangea sits next to the pond, as you can see, some of the leafs are burned from the sun.

Crocosmia lucifer

Dipladenia, also called Mandevilla, a climber I got as a gift, it is in a pot as it is not winterhardy here but it performs well.

My passiflora caerulea performs well as the flowers stay open just for one day. there are new flowers all the time, it grows very fast. This one is one of the most winterhardy passionflowers.

This flower is from my albizia julibrissin, the flowers are normally pink but this one is white, I don’t know why.

I hope you al had a better Summer. Take care and enjoy your garden whenever you can.

February 8, 2020February 8, 2020

SOFT WET WINTER

We are having a soft wet Winter this time, we had a few mild frosty nights but that’s all so far, for tomorrow a severe storm is comming our way with lots of rain and very strong winds.

There are lots of plants budding as they think it’s Spring.

**THIS SKIMMIA (SKIMMIA KEW GREEN) WILL SOON OPEN IT’S BUDS**, **AL LOT EARLIER THAN USUAL**

**AND THIS PASSIONFLOWER PLANT NORMALLY LOOSES MOST OF IT’S LEAFS IN WINTER BUT NOW IT STAYED TOTALLY GREEN AND IT IS ALREADY GETTING NEW LEAFS**

**MY CORCKSCREW HAZEL (CORYLUS AVELLANA “CONTORTA”) IS COMPLETELY OVERGROWN BY ANOTHER PASSIONFLOWER AT THE MOMENT**

A SHOOT OF THE EUPHORBIA CARIACAS

THIS BUTTERFLY BUSH SHOULD LOOK DEATH THIS TIME OF THE YEAR BUT IT IS FULL OF NEW GROWTH

Have a great weekend and thanks for visiting !

September 19, 2019

WHAT IS STILL BLOOMING IN MY GARDEN TODAY

It definitely is Autumn now, cos of the drought it is early this year. But there still is a lot in bloom right now although you can see the flowers are a bit tired and the leafs are getting brown and yellow here and there. On top of it they had to go without my tlc while I was on holiday in France.

**IT’S SEDUM SPECABILE TIME NOW AND I HAVE LOTS OF THEM**

**FUCHSIA MAGELLANICA BLOOMS FOR ABOUT 6 MONTHS**

**THE ASTERS ARE JUST BEGINNING TO BLOOM**

**DAHLIA WILL BLOOM TILL THE FROSTS COME**

**ROSA GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR IS STILL GETTING NEW BUDS AND ALL**

**MY FUCHSIA’S IN POTS ARE ALL STILL IN BLOOM**

On the other hand some plants look tatty, like the ferns, the Amelanchier tree(shadbush or june berry), the lavenders…. But hey, I am not complaining !

I hope you are all well and happy, wherever you are.

June 27, 2019

ALWAYS PRETTY

Passionflower alias passiflora caerulea is a very easy climber but it selfseeds everywhere in the garden. The caerula is the most winterhardy of them all. The flower is so pretty, they only open for one day and then it starts making the fruit, after a while you get a yellow oval fruit, so you always have buds, flowers, green unripe fruit and yellow ripe fruit. I cut them back really hard each year as they can grow 6 meters long (19 feet) per season. But I love to have it in my garden.