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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on September 1, 2024, 12:26 am Well, they are ripening now. A source of fake blood, lol... https://photos.app.goo.gl/7LdZqXkYuzftXmZ7A The BRAZILIAN PLUME FLOWER, Justicia carnea, is in bloom! https://photos.app.goo.gl/9k8JacAS145w76My8 Another of my LANTANA, Lantana camara, varieties is blooming. The cultivar of this one is, 'Luscious Red Zone Royale'. It is a Proven Winner selection... https://photos.app.goo.gl/j63rWK391YSyYaoq9 AHHH, It's time for MAYPOP to chime in. Maypop is one of the cold-hardiest forms of PASSIONFLOWER, Passiflora incarnata. Anybody know why this plant is called the 'passionflower"?... https://photos.app.goo.gl/8W6p9eUDuYfmwKuL8 https://photos.app.goo.gl/byG9HocB38BccAnE9 This is LIME ZINGER! Anybody know what type of ARUM, this plant is? https://photos.app.goo.gl/gtuTEpS8emEpg4jt5 Another of my Rose of Sharon cultivars is blooming. this one is a DOUBLE RED. Its cultivar is LUCY! https://photos.app.goo.gl/Js1MxeXmLF63BtH27

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Fred SC on September 1, 2024, 6:01 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Alvin, the Brazilian Plume Flower is gorgeous. Fake blood or make wine, lol. Miss Lucy looks downtown for sure. There are do mss as y nice ones now. Mine have s as bout quit blooming now. I will miss them until next year. We had the Maypop growing wild all over as a kid. It is beautiful. Fruit is lemony tasting. I remember trying to eat it as a kid. We , though, had bloodroot that we called may pop, snd it may have been that Maypop fruit I tried.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on September 1, 2024, 9:16 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Fred. Wine? What type of sugar content do poke berries have. I'm guessing that they must have some, in order for fermentation of the juice to take place. 'Lucy' is the only double in my collection, and also the latest to begin blooming. 'Freedom' is a semi-double, though. Rose of Sharon usually blooms here, until the latter part of September. They may stop a little earlier, this year, due to the early spring, I had this year. Maypop doesn't emerge out the ground, until relatively late in May, up here. However, once it emerges, it grows very fast. I haven't tried the fruit of Maypop, although they are edible, and the juice is called passionfruit juice. Passionflowers were given their name, because they have an unusually "Y-shaped" stigma, in the center of each bloom, that is thought to resemble a crucifix, or Christ on the Cross.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by David-Shenandoah Valley of VA on September 1, 2024, 9:48 pm, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Oh my, birds love poke berries. My great aunt used to talk about eating poke salad. I believe it's only edible when young. I think there was a song called "Poke Salad Annie". I was thinking about getting a Maypop from Mail Order Natives but it was not available. After some thought, I decided that I didn't want to deal with a vine. I do like the flowers, though.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on September 2, 2024, 10:44 am, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Fred and Rob love poke greens, cooked. I think they refer to them, as 'poke sallat". I've heard of of the young leaves eaten raw, and referred to, as poke salad, too. Passion vine does require a fence, trellis, or arbor, to grow on. Yet, it's stems die back to the ground every year. Not woody, like Wisteria, nor gets as big. I planted my plant from cold-stratified seed. Took 3 yrs to bloom, but has been blooming every year, since. It was mulched its first few seasons.

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