Passion Flower’s side view, originally uploaded by malyousif.
They’ve at last opened this morning, but only after I had left for work. My wife called me about 9am and told me that they have actually opened, FOUR of them all together!
I was thrilled so much that I just HAD to get back home (ok, 5 minutes down the road since the office move!) and take a few pictures of my first ever passion flowers!
Me very happy 🙂
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Very beautiful, strange-looking flower.
wow, stunning. Masha Allah.
beautiful flower and photo, Mahmood.
Very beautiful,
flowers keep dying on us….
Dad loves gardening but he doesn’t seem to get things to grow easily….
Any tip will be highly appreciated 🙂
Hard work and plenty of reading and experimentation I guess. I’m too new a gardener to dispense advice really. I guess I’ve been lucky with some things, not so lucky with others. But generally, make sure that the soil is prepared well and then don’t forget to feed it as its plants require.
As to this particular plant, I have struggled with it ever since Frances brought it back with her from Scotland about a year ago. It first went into a pot where it didn’t do very well at all, then it started to grow a bit… a few months ago I decided to move it to the front of the house and train it on the North-facing wall, kept it fed with NPK and iron, gets a good supply of water and trimmed it a couple of times, and this is the result… I’ll let you know how its fruit tastes when those get ripe!
Good luck to your dad… keep encouraging him and tell him not to lose hope. The internet is full of reference sites, some of which are rather good. Ask him to make use of them as they might help.
did you know that this plant bears edible fruit….in texas anyway…supposed to taste like apricots….
you can make jams out of it lol
have a great week.
river
Yes river I did, in fact we have one green one now, but I have been reading the warnings all over the passiflora sites that most are actually poisonous and they advise buying the passion fruits you want to eat!
Have a wonderful week yourself too.
Mahmood
Could you PLEASE save me a couple of seeds from this plant??? PLEASE!? Can I trade you some Asiatic Lilly bulbs? Iris? a BONSAI?
I don’t have seeds for this plant and wouldn’t advise you to get anything from my garden at the moment, a lot of the plants are unfortunately infected with the mealy worm and even with diazanon I couldn’t get rid of them. They are infecting the hyacynths and most soft-wood plants as well as the morning glory.. if by the time you are over the plants are clear, you are more than welcome to a couple of cuttings.
Salam Mahmood,
wonderful blog. Not a day passes by without me checking your blog at least twice, since I’m on the West Hemisphere.
Your passion flower is stunning. I wanted to know how you could grow all these wonderful plants in such a humid sultry weather. don’t know if Bahrain has a different climate than Oman (where I lived for long years)
I find it hard to grow orchids here (New York City) indoors that is, and your pull off such a beauty in the Arabian Peninsula
any kind of an advice will be highly appreciated :-))))
Thanks Mahmood. If you want anything from the US plant wise I will be back in November and I will bring it in for you. I am bringing you a mame bonsai anyway.
Sorry to hear about your current bug problem. If Neem and diazanon aren’t solving it I don’t know what will.
Mahmood – a beautiful blog, a beautiful picture and a beautiful flower. Also, I was so very sorry to read of your recent lost. Best wishes.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful … and the flower isn’t bad either. Geez, that camera of yours does a beautiful job!
Now, if the gardener would just cut my grass!
Beatiful, Strange , Impressive !
Great photos….nice looking flower!
cok guzel flower, beautiful.
I have a brown thumb. I am always envious of those who have the knack for gorwing plants and flowers. My late grandmother had that knack.
Hi Mahmood,
I was privileged to be standing with Frances in your garden this morning when she first spotted that the passion flowers had bloomed. She was very excited and I must say the flowers were truly a beautiful sight. I have seen your garden and its wonderful blooms on your website but actually standing there in the garden today, it was truly amazing. Its like a green oasis and you should be very proud of your achievements.
Unfortunately, I didnt get to meet you today as you quickly popped in and popped out but hopefully I will get the chance to see you some time in the future.
There seem to be lots of buds waiting to open and hopefully your wall will be covered in the beautiful passion flowers.
Keep up the good work!! The results are so rewarding.
Is it so wrong to be sexually attracted to a plant? That’s gorgeous! Mabrook!
Do you take those photos with a regular digital camera or do you use some type of SLR?
Karen you are more than welcome, and I’m sure the opportunity will present itself again. And thanks for your kind words.
Frances was thrilled because we both were waiting for that particular moment for more than a year of husbanding, caring, loving, working and pleading for it to happen! I think the wait is worth it. Seeing those flowers up close is a wonder. I am really happy!
Clippa I know exactly what you mean! The camera I used for these pictures is my Canon 20D DSLR with the regular 18-55mm lens.
stunning…. i’m really impressed w/ the variety of flowers you have.
Lovely
On a related topic, any suggestions on getting rid of cats?
a dog! 😉
Gorgeous flower. I think there’s some Christian symbolism wrapped around it – the stamens supposed to represent the nails in Christ’s cross and the purple petals the crown of thorns.
Yes Aliandra, because of it’s wonderful shape, someone somewhere must screw it up and add religious connotations to it!
I love it regardless though, it is a wondeful flower and I am absolutely thrilled that it has flowered in my garden.
Your doing so well in the whole gardening arena.
In addition to the flower itself and your photography skills, what is stunning is the depth of field the image has. Lens design must have come quite a ways since some decades ago when taking similar pictures, I could only get field depth a few millimeters deep even in bright sunlight. Marvelous!
Charles you’re the first one to catch the “other” 3D dimension! Well done and thanks!
Woof
I would love a dog – there is even a brick built doghouse in my garden. BUT, I am not around enough
So, any anti cat ideas, anyone. I am thinking of filling a garden sprayer with a cocktaiul of surgical spirit, mothballs, citronella oil and water
Johnster; try putting some ground pepper in your borders.
Homemade Cat Repellent
I’m becoming very envious of these perfectly executed flower photographs.
On a related note, my Nikon D70, only two years old, just stopped working for no reason at all. I took it to my favorite camera store expecting to get skinned for $300+ bucks. The warranty only lasts a year. It came back in two weeks fixed for free. I only paid $25 in handling charges.
They replaced the card inside the camera, which was apparently defective. That surprises me in a Nikon, which has a reputation for quality.
Steve
All camera manufacturers now are as goog as their optics. The rest is all electronics and programs to manipulate images once they are taken.
Generally, the best of them in that department are those who manufactere video cameras as they would have had the experience in electonic image acquisition and processing; Canon and Sony top the list.
That’s why I’m surprised that Nikon is still in the game! I have always been a Nikon-man (F3 and others are still in their bags) but when it came to electronic photography I opted for Canon. I’m glad to see however the reviews of Nikon DSLRs rates them very good, even sometimes surpassing Canons.
As to the photography… well, I’m perfect! What else can I say?