Passionflower vines are a common sight in Bay Area gardens, especially those ornamental varieties that feature showy purple, blue or pink flowers, many with pronounced, even extravagant filaments. But ...

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 ...

Of the over 450 kinds of passiflora vines in the world, only a handful are edible, and only one—Passiflora edulis, commonly called “passion fruit”—stands high above the rest for the quality of its ...

Meet Passionflower vine, or Passiflora incarnat. Two species of this tropical-looking flower are native to Virginia, growing in most counties in the coastal and piedmont regions. The large lavender ...

Yellow passionvine – Passiflora lutea is a native vine that can me more than aggressive. It doesn’t produce the large showy flowers of its sister Passionflower Passiflora incarnata – but if you look ...

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, ...

A reader writing under the pseudonym ''Mrs Clover'' bought a passiflora with flowers a few months ago. ''At the moment the plant is very healthy with lots and lots of leaves, but no flowers,'' she ...

Q-I have recently moved from a large house with a big garden to a one-room apartment. Fortunately there are sunny windows across one wall. As a hands-on gardener, I find myself bereft without plants ...

When 16th century Spanish explorers first beheld the passionflower, they saw the son of God. The blossom’s lavish mop of filaments became the crown of thorns and the blossom a symbol of the Passion of ...