For crucifixion symbolism, the passion flower has served admirably for over 500 years. Not just for American gardeners but Europeans worldwide. South American Jesuit missionaries in the early 1500s ...

On a recent summer evening, there were only two empty folding chairs left at a packed meeting of the Culver City Garden Club. The crowd was there to hear member Jorge Ochoa talk about passion flowers, ...

The Chinese passion vine species Passiflora kwangtungensis strikes with the beauty of its clusters of white-greenish flowers and its small round fruit. Feared extinct for a long period of time, this ...

Gardeners everywhere seem to be searching out vines for that special fence, trellis or arbor. The passionflower, one of my favorites, is not only one of the most beautiful and exotic blooms in the ...

I have this plant growing in my flower bed in Huntsville. Where I grew up in Tuscaloosa County, it was called a maypop because it usually appeared late spring or early summer and produced a small ...

Ten years ago, my daughter Kristin, then just 7 years old, and I were exploring Strybing Arboretum, the famous botanical garden in San Francisco. There, on a back wall were several enormous passion ...

A temperate species, Passiflora incarnata, of the predominately tropical family Passifloraceae, possesses two sets of extrafloral nectaries which are visited by five species of ants. In an old field, ...

Gardeners everywhere seem to be searching out vines for that special fence, trellis or arbor. The passionflower is not only one of the most beautiful and exotic blooms in the world, but the fruit of ...

Many years ago, a woman brought a passionflower to church that she had grown. I remember how exquisite the flower was, and how intrigued I was by her story of the flower’s symbolism. She claimed that ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Bundaberg. Followed categories will be added to My News. Corky passion vine is an aggressive climber or ground cover that is widely invasive in northern and ...