FREE: BLUE-PASSION CAERULEA VINE

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5-SEEDS!!

Turn your Shabby Chic Garden into a marvel for your senses! Enjoy every minute as this intensely scented flower with its cream petals and complex blue coronal filaments of deep purple, lavender and white, reaches for the Heavens on this fast growing vine set against deep green foliage. Between July and October your Passion Vine will also produce a semi-sweet yellow-orange oval fruit (smaller than a lemon).

A Little History: How the word "Passion" became associated with this plant. Fleur de Passiflore (Flower of Passion)

Peru, 1856. Spanish explorer's came across this fascinating vine and believed its intricate flower held all the signs and markings of Jesus last days, called the "Christ Passion" - - -believing this find to be a 'good omen' this flower led them to continue their exploration.

What the Spanish saw:
The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful apostles (excluding St. Peter the denier and Judas Iscariot the betrayer).
The flower's radial filaments, represent the crown of thorns.
The 3 stigmas represent the 3 nails and the 5 anthers below them the 5 wounds (four by the nails and one by the lance).

ZONES: 5-10 (all zones, especially 5, should keep 2" of mulch at the base of this plant all season). Moderate water. Well draining soil.
FULL SUN

EARLY SOW: 6-8 WEEKS BEFORE LAST FROST. Soak seeds 24 hours in orange juice. Plant 1/4 in good soil and cover pot with plastic or tent cover - set pot in a bright-warm 70 degree area. When two set of leaves appear, slowly remove plastic cover to allow seedlings to acclimate to the new atmosphere. Plant in ground when soil is warm.

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