A Beautiful Morning with Passiflora
Hi! Welcome back! Today I'd like to walk you on a tour through a beautiful garden in my community and the beautiful flowers and produce to be seen there.
You may be asking "Passiflora? What's that?" Long story short, it is the other name for Passion Fruit!
Introducing Passion Fruit (aka: Maracuyá en Español) It is a delicious, but little fruit, that grows seeds under the husk. *There are also way bigger Passion fruit species in the world, but these little ones seem to be more native and pop up everywhere where I am. The seeds have this "goo" with them which is edible and very sweet.
With a lot of time to practice lately, I've gotten a lot better at photography! I want to share better quality photos with the net, especially thumbnails. I'm just so proud with the one above haha. 😄
When it's blooming season for the plants, it's mating season for the animals. When fruit from the plants grow, the babies now have delicious food full of nutrients!
In other posts, I've mentioned that we grow Passion Fruit, but it's a struggle to grow them because of Iguanas (but I recently figured out the problem was with the ants which love to eat everything).
On our walk, we discovered that near them, ARE MORE PASSION FRUITS! We did not grow them, but we are always excited to see even more popping up all on its own.
No Iguanas, ants or any kind of critters to destroy them here. We also found a papaya in the plants' secret hideout. 😄
At some point we won't have to buy from the supermarkets lol. ;)
When the Passion Fruit is ripe, they turn red, brownish red or yellow depending on the species. So many Christmas ornament variations! haha.
The riper the fruit is, the more food there is!
Thank you for viewing my post, I was happy to share with you the excitement of gardening and finding out when your fruits are blooming in nature. I hope you enjoyed and see you next time! 😁
