I can’t remember the formal name of this passion flower. I bought it this past summer. I love the color of it. Most of my other passion flowers are white and blue or purple in color.
Isn’t it lovely?
Is it Four o’ Clock?
This flower is best know by it’s common name of “Four o’ Clocks”, but it also goes by the names of Marvel of Peru, and it’s Latin name of Mirabilis jalapa.
As it’s common name implies this flower begins to bloom in the late afternoon around 4 pm. Mine have never opened that early though. Mine tend to open somewhere between 6 pm and 8 pm on long summer days.
I’ve found that the white four o’ clocks produce the strongest scent so I tend to only have white four o’ clocks in my garden. The scent is a strong jasmine and since the flowers tend to bloom all night long the garden is scented with their lovely jasmine scent at night.
This is an annual flower that produces large round hard black seeds from September until it stops blooming. I simply save the seeds in a cool dry place in the winter and plant them directly in the garden in late spring or early summer in order to produce new plants each year.
Snapdragons
I didn’t plant a single snapdragon in my garden this year, but they must have seeded themselves well because I have tons of snapdragons of many colors. That’s ok. I love these unusual looking flowers.
I wonder how many will come up in the garden next year?
Petals
Lovely White Petaled Tulip, Toronto, 2007 This is a gorgeous tulip. I like how some of the petals look like they are feathered. See the one in the top left – that’s what I mean. Beautiful.
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