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SpookyShoe · April 23, 2018

Yesterday I bought a Blue Fortune Agastache and a Passion Vine "Inspiration." After googling growing passion vine in a pot, I decided to try it. I'm going to make a trellis for it out of dried bamboo stakes. Today I worked in my back yard and it was fun to watch the bees trying to bulldoze their fat little bodies into the tubular flowers of various salvias.

Donna , Texas Gulf Coast, zone 9

SpookyShoe · April 23, 2018

duplicate post

Nan_PA_6b · April 23, 2018

There is a passiflora that is hardy up here; just not that one.

Nan

MissS · April 23, 2018

Donna you have two good finds. I looked up your passion vine and it is beautiful! Those bees will really enjoy your Blue Fortune Agastache. They go nuts over it in my yard.

AlittleSalt · April 23, 2018

I don't have pictures from this year, but we're growing morning glories, lantanas, trumpet vines, and ones that I'm not remembering at this moment - along with 11 acres of wildflowers scattered about.

SpookyShoe · April 25, 2018

A couple of days ago I was at a nursery and saw a hummer on a bottlebrush. I put out my feeders and saw them this morning. I don't get very many in the spring. Get lots in the fall.

Donna

Gardenboy · April 25, 2018

All sorts of different butterflies and skipper moths love is plant. Wish I could figure out how to germinate the seeds. I've tried numerous times by cuttings and also by the dried flower seed heads, but haven't solved the mystery yet...any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.

green_go · April 25, 2018

Lamb's ears

SpookyShoe · April 25, 2018

Spectacular photos! The colors!

Donna

MissS · April 25, 2018

I agree! Gala those photos are just gorgeous. And..... I learned something. I have never thought of Lamb's Ears as a hummingbird plant. I will have to put it on my list of native plants that attract these birds.

Gardenboy, you finally have me stumped. I do not know what that plant is but it is magnificent. Do you know what it is? You might have to try dividing it's roots when it is done blooming to get yourself another one of the plants that I am drooling over.

Gardenboy · April 25, 2018

Mexican Flame Vine is what it's called.

MissS · April 25, 2018

Thank you. I looked it up and it says that it is very easy to start from cuttings or seed. Perhaps these might help you.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/orn...lame-vines.htm

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/21...can-flame-vine

Nan_PA_6b · April 25, 2018

GreenGo, you've got hummingbirds in Canada already??? I better get my feeder out!

Nan

MissS · April 25, 2018

Here is the link to the 2018 Hummingbird Migration Maps. This one is for the Ruby-Throated.

http://hummingbirds.net/map.html

Get those feeders out....

Nan_PA_6b · April 26, 2018

Thank you for the map. That's exactly what I needed to know.

Nan

April 23, 2018	#32
SpookyShoe Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: El Lago, Texas Posts: 1,100	More plants added duplicate post Last edited by SpookyShoe; April 23, 2018 at 05:53 PM.

April 23, 2018	#34
MissS Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin Posts: 3,149	Donna you have two good finds. I looked up your passion vine and it is beautiful! Those bees will really enjoy your Blue Fortune Agastache. They go nuts over it in my yard. __________________ ~ Patti ~

April 25, 2018	#40
MissS Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin Posts: 3,149	I agree! Gala those photos are just gorgeous. And..... I learned something. I have never thought of Lamb's Ears as a hummingbird plant. I will have to put it on my list of native plants that attract these birds. Gardenboy, you finally have me stumped. I do not know what that plant is but it is magnificent. Do you know what it is? You might have to try dividing it's roots when it is done blooming to get yourself another one of the plants that I am drooling over. __________________ ~ Patti ~

April 25, 2018	#42
MissS Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin Posts: 3,149	Thank you. I looked it up and it says that it is very easy to start from cuttings or seed. Perhaps these might help you. https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/orn...lame-vines.htm https://www.houzz.com/discussions/21...can-flame-vine __________________ ~ Patti ~

April 25, 2018	#44
MissS Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin Posts: 3,149	Here is the link to the 2018 Hummingbird Migration Maps. This one is for the Ruby-Throated. http://hummingbirds.net/map.html Get those feeders out.... __________________ ~ Patti ~

April 23, 2018	#33
Nan_PA_6b Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 3,194	There is a passiflora that is hardy up here; just not that one. Nan

April 23, 2018	#35
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	I don't have pictures from this year, but we're growing morning glories, lantanas, trumpet vines, and ones that I'm not remembering at this moment - along with 11 acres of wildflowers scattered about.

April 25, 2018	#41
Gardenboy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Posts: 784	Mexican Flame Vine is what it's called.

April 26, 2018	#45
Nan_PA_6b Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 3,194	Thank you for the map. That's exactly what I needed to know. Nan