Growth habit: A sprawling evergreen vine growing to 1 foot tall and over 5 feet wide. Plants produce large, coarsely serrated green leaves with velvety purple hairs. Light: Keep in bright light but ...

Scientific name: Gynura aurantiaca Purple Passion. Light: Keep in medium to high light to acquire a deep purple foliage color. Water: Moisten, then allow the soil to dry slightly between waterings.

“What is that?” It’s a common question heard from visitors to the Santa Monica Community Gardens. It could be about a towering stalk of collard greens or an artichoke blooming into what it wants to ...

Ten years ago, my daughter Kristin, then just 7 years old, and I were exploring Strybing Arboretum, the famous botanical garden in San Francisco. There, on a back wall were several enormous passion ...

They can creep, crawl or climb — but they’re not bugs. Instead, we’re talking about vines. Vines can provide much-needed summer shade. But they also give landscapes visual interest, from cool-looking ...

Passion flower, Passiflora species, has the most unusual flower in my garden. Four to 7 inches in diameter, this showy, bright purple, prolific bloomer fascinates most visitors who have never seen so ...

Q: Our neighbors have passion flower vine plants which shoot runners into our yard. These runners have started showing up in increasing numbers. We don't use poison to control weeds in our yard, and ...

You may have walked along fences or trellises and notice a green climbing vine with exotic lavender and white blossoms that look more tropical than Texan. That vine is the Maypop Passion Vine ...

On a recent summer evening, there were only two empty folding chairs left at a packed meeting of the Culver City Garden Club. The crowd was there to hear member Jorge Ochoa talk about passion flowers, ...