Thursday, June 28, 2012

Pergola-tory Conserva-tory

I forgot to write about this, but Passiflora parritae (along with 'Mission Dolores' which is a parritae x antioquiensis hybrid and a replacement for cyanea) and nephrodes arrived from Grassy Knoll!!! The story goes that it's extinct in the wilds of Colombia and that the parent clone plant of all the available (rarely available) plants thrives in San Francisco at the botanical garden with the same name. (Note to self: find parent plant when I eventually visit the Andean cloud forest there). They say the town that the San Francisco plant's parent is from was bulldozed, so until someone finds another wild plant I am doing my part in continuing the species! That's kinda neat. And, allegedly it will do very well here in Redondo Beach where the temperatures don't climb beyond 80°F nor dip below 50°F all year long. Maybe in a few summers I'll have some peachy-pumpkin colored blossoms danging down from the pergola. I can't wait!

So here's this summer's inhabitants:

Container 1:
  •     P. holosericea 
  •     P. 'Manta'
    • xiikzodz × coriacea
  •     P. 'Jennifer Grace'
    • quadriglandulosa × poslae
 Container 2:
  •     P. parritae
  •     P. 'Mission Dolores'
    • parritae × antioquiensis 
  Container 3:
  • P. alata
  • P. 'Blue-Eyed Susan' 
    • (incarnata edulis) (incarnata cincinnata)
  • P. 'Lady Margaret' 
    • coccinea incarnata
  • P. 'Saphire'
    • edulis caerulea
Container 4:
  • P. 'Blue Boquet' 
    • ((amethystina caerulea) (amethystina caerulea)) caerulea
  • P. 'Moniker Fischer' 
    • (incarnata   amethystina)4n (kermesina x caerulea)4n
  • P. 'Star of Surbiton' 
    • 'Amethyst' caerulea
  • P. racemosa
Container 5:
  • P. 'Exoniensis'
    • antioquiensis × tripartita var. mollissima (aka tarminiana)
  • P. 'Warmlands'
    • vitifolia macrocarpa
  • P. nephrodes
Container 6:
  •     P. 'Sunburst'
    • gilbertiana × jorullensis
And because I have a passiflora problem...

Container 7:
  •     P. × belotii
Container 8:
  •     P. antioquiensis
  •     P. trisecta

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