Passionflower vines are a common sight in Bay Area gardens, especially those ornamental varieties that feature showy purple, blue or pink flowers, many with pronounced, even extravagant filaments. But ...

For crucifixion symbolism, the passion flower has served admirably for over 500 years. Not just for American gardeners but Europeans worldwide. South American Jesuit missionaries in the early 1500s ...

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, ...

A temperate species, Passiflora incarnata, of the predominately tropical family Passifloraceae, possesses two sets of extrafloral nectaries which are visited by five species of ants. In an old field, ...

Q-I have recently moved from a large house with a big garden to a one-room apartment. Fortunately there are sunny windows across one wall. As a hands-on gardener, I find myself bereft without plants ...

Many years ago, a woman brought a passionflower to church that she had grown. I remember how exquisite the flower was, and how intrigued I was by her story of the flower’s symbolism. She claimed that ...