Re: Passionflowers & Sweetpeas
Marilyn Dube wrote:
> Barb, Passiflora caerulea (blue passionflower vine) has fruit that looks
> for all the world like a banty chicken egg hanging on the vine.
Have you tried growing them? What a fun plant for the kids.
> Are you
> sure those were Sweet Pea seeds? Like little black/brown bee bees?
Yeah, we pulled out the dying sweet pea flowering vines last September and
pulled the dried seeds from the pods, bagged em up, marked em and planted em in
Spring. It's a mystery. Most of the seeds had already turned to their
black/brown bee-bee size but a few were still green so we sat them in the sun a
bit and they dried. I just don't get it unless they do indeed cross pollinate.
>
> Marilyn Dube'
> Natural Design Plants
> Hardy Perennials, Choice Tropicals
> Portland, OR Zone 8b
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com [owner-perennials@mallorn.com] On
> Behalf Of Barb Tourtillotte
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 8:11 PM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Dutchman's Pipe
>
> What a fun plant ! Will look for seeds on that one. Has anyone grown ( I
> can't find it in my seed catalogs) a plant that looks like it has chicken
> eggs
> hanging it off it? I honestly don't know if its an annual or perennial.
>
> Also, any answer to whether sweet peas (sorry, an annual) cross pollinate
> with
> sugar snap peas? I only got sugar snaps this year from my sweet pea
> flower's
> seeds.
>
> Barb
> Seattle
>
> Mclainakag@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Hey all you gardening friends out there - if you are looking for a
> "funking"
> > blooming vine for your garden I think I know of one....my Aristolochia
> > gigantea (giant dutchman's pipe) is now blooming....one of the strangest
> > flowers I've seen.
> >
> > There are these pouches hanging from the vine that are sorta limy green
> with
> > purple splotches that truely look like a Sherlock Holmes style
> pipe....then
> > they open up into these very strange whitish/green w/purple veining flat
> > flowers (I use the word flower loosely in this case) like I've never seen.
> > It is very strange but I think that it is a keeper----people will surely
> ask
> > you about this one.
> >
> > Happy Gardening to all
> >
> > Kemberly McLain
> > Katy, Texas Zone 9
> >
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