We Are Passionate About Our Passion Vine (Cheesy? Yeah.)

We bought some tiny Passion Vine plugs at the beginning of the season for 99 cents a piece.  If they lived fine, if not we were going to be out 2 whole dollars.  Well they have lived and are thriving.  The vines that we bought at maybe 6 inches are now running over the top of our 6 foot fence.  Blooms began to show up the past couple of weeks but they had yet to open.

Until today!

James went home for lunch and took a picture for me, just in case something happens to the flower before I get home from work.  He knew I would be PISSED if I missed it. 

In the side view you can really see all the layers of this flower and this is what I am drawn to.  They are so different and so beautiful.  Alien-like at times.

In this view you can also see that the leaves have been chewed on quite a bit.  Our passion vine houses two very fast growing caterpillars.  We decided to leave them and let them have a constant food source.  I’ve enjoyed watching them grow and hope to catch them in their cocoon.