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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  Well I finally got a bloom on my passiflora! Whoopee!!!! I cannot tell you how happy I am. We got these two vines last year with flowers and fruit. They never flowered again since then until now. All the flower buds were coming up empty.
And I bought a bag of Christopher Ranch garlic at the market and a few cloves were sprouting. I put about 10 of them in the garden and at least 4 of them are growing with the greens about 2-3" high now. I thought I missed the timing for garlic but guess not!
Also finally got two tiny tomatoes coming in. One about a small pearl, the other about a golf ball.
The winds are really bad here now though. Shis**to and eggplant are ripped to shreds and I put clear covers on them. The eggplant started to come back but now stopped. Also the winds ripped up my long beans, so I will try to germinate some more indoors. |
I love Passiflora/Passion Flower vine, and they are quite popular here. Show us a pic of yours. The blossoms are so exotic and look like an intricate fake plastic flower. Too bad the blossoms don't last long. My fav is the purple passion/non-fruit one, although my big one finally died last year. I used to have these in Arizona too. I used to love a Snail Vine in AZ too, and can't get that here.
My current Spring blossoms are shell ginger, pink and red ginger, rostrata heliconia, hibiscus magenta and fiesta orange, and coming soon giant red Caribe heliconia, and my Plumeria trees are getting leaves and blossoms back after 4 months of being naked. Then I have a long planter on the patio full of bedding plants that are more common flowers you would recognize. Oh and best of all, my avocado tree is absolutely loaded with lil babies. It's going to be a great avo season by late August through December. Can't wait! Love avos and hate to pay for them when I have more than I can use or give away for half the year.
We should all share pics of what's growing in our neck of the woods.
My biggest pest prob here is slugs and giant snails. I really don't like to use slug killer, even the kind that says it is safe around pets.