Ladybird Dream? or Cary

For the first time we had a Ladybird Dream? flower today. I think its Passiflora Cary though, thats what happens a lot in packages of 3 or 4 passionflowers you dont end up with what is listed or labelled.

New Flower today

Here is a new hybrid in flower, i missed the first flower a few weeks ago, and that flower is now producing a seed pod.

This is Jayne T x Lucy Zara so is the following (capsularis x conzattiana) x (conzattiana x citrina). Looks like a small Debbie Marie Hescott.

Flowers open today

Two of our hybrids were in flower today.

 P. Lucy Zara [P.conzattiana x P. citrina]

P. Jayne T [P.capsularis x P. conzattiana]

Happy New Passiflora Year

This year is looking if it will be a good one. With the mild winter we have had, some of our passiflora has already started to grow and shoot. Most of the species and hybrids we have have survived so far. A new hybrid P. conzattiana x P. "Becky Speed" has come up from seed and looks healthy, it should have a good flower, hopefully similar to P. "Palomas Delight". The status of P. "Becky Speed" though is not good, with less than 5 healthy plants or cuttings.

                       Passiflora "Becky Speed" cuttings .                                          A. Wren

Will add a few more pictures to this blog, as things start to flower. A Visit to Kew will happen in February too.

Passiflora nephrodes

We have been busy recently with our passiflora collection, so have not posted much recently.

Here is a photo of nephrodes which flowered today.

Passiflora Lucy Zara x quinquangularis Plant 1

A couple of pictures of this new hybrid, which flowered for the first time today, it was a result of a cross done during last winter, in the heliquarium.

This is a cross between the hybrid 'Lucy Zara' (conzatiana x citrina) and quiquangularis.

We have plenty of cuttings from Plant 1, and from Plant 2 [not flowered yet] of this hybrid.

Passiflora 'Lucy Zara'

Here is a picture of another of my 2004 hybrids, Passiflora Lucy Zara, which flowers most days in my collection, the first picture is the plant 2, which most or all the surviving plants originate.

 

Passiflora 'Lucy Zara'

Passiflora Lucy Zara, is growing at Kew Gardens, and i have 5 plants in my greenhouse, and a back-up plant on holiday in an orchid house.