These are Passion Flowers and they are a vine. In NC you will need to keep them in a pot and bring them in for the winter. They will sometimes produce a fruit with seeds inside. I have had some luck drying out the seeds and getting them to grow. Good luck!
Easy to grow, easy to start from seed and grows like a weed once the heat and humidty start. By end of June ours start to climb and cover part of the roof. We have six Maypop 'Passiflora incarnata; all started from seed. Be sure it's a cold hardy variety unless you're in zone 9 or higher. Saw a few growing in pots a few years back in South Carolina.
I had one last year but the drought in Texas got to it. It is a Passion flower or vine. I got one because my grandmother used to have them and I remember them explaining what each thing meant. It was something about the 12 petals represent the 12 Apostles and the pestals (?) represent the crown of thorns or something like that. There is a little explanation about them that she gave me in a clipping I'll have to find. It represents the Crucifiction of Jesus hence the name Passion
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flower. I will send the info from the clipping when I find it. Also, I ordered mine from I think Michigan bulb. They have never let me down on their flowers. But it is not a bulb, it is a small cutting. They are annuals although here in Houston they tend to come back because we don't really have a winter here. I hope you get one. They are very beautiful flowers.
I had one outside my bedroom window when I lived in California. (If memory serves me right, it was this one too). It's gorgeous when it blooms. Never did try the fruit from it though. The birds usually got to it first!
I live approx 70 mi. west of Indianapolis & mine survive.... Comes back every spring & has spread from one small little piece to a beauty. The lady who gave it to me called it "passion vine".........
I have never seen blue passion flowers wow the design on them is awesome GOD and Mother Nature really outdid themselves and thank you for showing me the butterfly thats the kind that was flitting around my yard , do you know what kind it is??
I love passion flowers but can't find any at local greenhouses or big box retailers. I don't want to order one online. Does anyone out there know of an Alpharetta/Milton/Roswell garden center with passion flowers?
It looks alot like a flower called a Maypop or Passion flower. There are a lot of varieties , but this looks very similar to one my grandmother had in her yard years ago.
Yu can "Google" the word Maypop and several sites come up that have pictures of different varieties. I saw some that looked similiar, but not exacly like this. One site said there are over 400 varieties of Maypops.
Several of the bigger perennial companies should have them available to order from their catalogs. Try Spring Hill Nursery or try Burpee Seed. You can also google Passion Flower and see what else you can find that way too. Hope this helps!
@Karen: I doubt you could grow that one but, depending on where in Connecticut you are, you might be able to grow a hardier cousin, Passiflora incarnata.
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