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Edible fruit?

Some are delicious & some toxic!

Practical Passion flower tips

How to care for these fascinating and beautiful climbers

Passiflora 'Snow Queen'

A fabulous new hardy RIVERSIDE® Hybrid

Passiflora Online Journal

Free download! Informative articles and stunning images

Myles Stewart Irvine

Myles Stewart Irvine

Riverside® Passiflora breeder

Myles has been growing Passiflora for over 30 years, releasing a number of hybrids over that time. The best have been selected for worldwide distribution as the Riverside® Passiflora.

He created this site in 2000, started the Passiflora Online Facebook Group in 2007, now over 5k members and edited Passiflora Online Journal.

He also grows Agaves, Aloes, Bananas, Cacti, Cycads, Euphorbia, Lithops, Palm Trees and more, plus is the Food Dispenser for Louis the Cat and Gilbert Gecko.

Passiflora Online has many plant care tips and fascinating information about these beautiful Passion flowers which are climbers, vines and trees. ID what passion flower you have here. Check out the FAQ. This authoritative site has information about many aspects of these fascinating and beautiful climbers, vines and trees. Passiflora, also known as Passionflowers, including:-

Plant care such as making cuttings, sowing seed, hybridising, edible fruit, fertiliser, hardiness, minerals, soil mixes and more. Plant info such as alternative medicine, flowering, genetics, hormones, lifecycle, lifespan, toxicity, pigments, pollen and more.

Fabulous images and info re pollinators such as bats, bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, moths and wasps, plus images of antique botanical prints and newer images, stamps, tattoos and Passiflora hybrids and species.

Passiflora Online Journal. 10 issues to date, free to download with fantastic informative articles and spectacular images.

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That awkward moment when you have to buy your own

That awkward moment when you have to buy your own hybrid! Looking great considering she recently arrived in the post. Passiflora ‘Snow Queen’ named in honour of @nataliameow. @planthaven_plants
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#passiflora #passiflorasnowqueen #hardyplants #hardypassiflora #whiteflowers #snowqueen #tropicalgardenstyle #whiteflower #tropicalplantsuk #surbiton #riversidepassiflora #pvr #pbr #plantsmakepeoplehappy #plantbreeder #plantvarietyrights #plantvarietyprotection

Canna tuerckheimii about to engulf a Sempervivum j

Canna tuerckheimii about to engulf a Sempervivum just as it is coming into flower.
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#canna #cannalily #surbiton #riversidepassiflora #cannatuerckheimii #sempervivum #sempervivumlove

New growth on a little Colocasia esculenta 'Burgun

New growth on a little Colocasia esculenta 'Burgundy Stem'. I am growing the best part of a dozen assorted tiny Colocasia this year. Never tried them before.
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#colocasia #colocasiaesculenta #colocasiaburgundystem #colocasiaburgundy #tropicalplants #tropicalplantsuk #pondplants #pondplantsofinstagram #elephantsear #elephantearplant #elephantears #elephantearsplant #tropicalgardenstyle #tropicalgardendesign

#nofilter #morningwalk #surbiton #riversidepassifl

#nofilter #morningwalk #surbiton #riversidepassiflora

#nofilter Opuntia scheeri (prickly pear) with unus

#nofilter Opuntia scheeri (prickly pear) with unusual flowers! They have fallen onto it shed by the Passiflora tetrandra above. This is a tough cactus. Hardy to -10°C or possibly a lot more. The glochids are nasty.
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#opuntia #opuntiascheerii #glochids #pricklypearcactus #pricklypear #passiflora #passifloratetrandra #surbiton #riversidepassiflora

Volume up for Surbiton jungle noises. And now that

Volume up for Surbiton jungle noises. And now that many of the flowers are out… a Video. Many thanks to John Vanderplank for this plant that came to me as a tiny rooted cutting many years ago. Tiny Passiflora tetrandra (male) flowers. I suspect the world’s most free flowering Passiflora. Thousands of flowers with a lovely honeysuckle smell. New Zealand’s only native Passionflower and one of only a few species to have separate male and female plants. Hardy.
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#passiflora #passifloratetrandra #newzealandplants #hardypassiflora #honeysucklescent #hardypassionflower #passionflower #tetrapathaea #surbiton #riversidepassiflora

A bat’s eye view of Passiflora trisecta at night

A bat’s eye view of Passiflora trisecta at night. Note how the androgynophore is curved to one side and the anthers are unevenly distributed. Together they make the bat line up in a particular way to maximise the chances of dusting it with pollen while it’s hovering in the air guzzling nectar. The flower are fully open by 8pm and closed by 8am. They give off a lovely perfume.
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#passiflora
#passifloratrisecta
#trisecta #surbiton #riversidepassiflora #pollination #batpollination #pollinators #whiteflower #whitepassiflora

Tetrapanax papyrifer ‘Rex’. This little chap a

Tetrapanax papyrifer ‘Rex’. This little chap arrived about a year ago from @bigplantnursery. Dropped almost all its leaves over winter and then burst into life in late spring. I learnt last year that it likes to be wet rather than dry and loves plenty of fertiliser. The speed of growth is extraordinary. Truly a magnificent monster.
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#tetrapanaxrex #tetrapanax #tetrapanaxpapyriferrex #surbiton #riversidepassiflora #tropicaltrees #tropicalplantsuk #tropicalplants #monsterplants

#nofilter #rosesgrowonyou #surbiton #riversidepass

#nofilter #rosesgrowonyou #surbiton #riversidepassiflora

I love growing plants with contrasting needs right

I love growing plants with contrasting needs right next to each other. Here Sempervivum (water me or not, I don’t really care) in front of the Dish of Doom (water me or else - and with rainwater only). Also I note that the Dish is getting a little full, a further dish required next year or before. That’s unless the forecast 29°C in the dish as distinct from in the ground upsets them…
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@hampshirecarnivorousplants @simonsmithflowers #wasps #bees #honeybees #apismellifera #sarracenia #sempervivum #plantcare #plantcaretips #carnivorousplant #pitcherplant #pitcherplantsofinstagram #sarraceniaflava #plantnectar #hampshirecarnivorousplants

#nofilter. Folk tend to forget that, as well as sc

#nofilter. Folk tend to forget that, as well as scoffing (USA scarfing) insects like bluebottles and wasps, Sarracenia flowers also supply pollen and nectar for the bees that pollinate them.
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@hampshirecarnivorousplants @simonsmithflowers #wasps #bees #honeybees #apismellifera #sarracenia #plantcare #plantcaretips #carnivorousplant #pitcherplant #pitcherplantsofinstagram #sarraceniaflava #plantnectar #hampshirecarnivorousplants #sarraceniapurpurea #sarraceniacare #riversidepassiflora #surbiton

Tiny Passiflora tetrandra (male) flowers. I suspec

Tiny Passiflora tetrandra (male) flowers. I suspect the world’s most free flowering Passiflora. Thousands of flowers with a lovely honeysuckle smell. New Zealand’s only native Passionflower and one of only a few species to have separate male and female plants. Hardy.
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#passiflora #passifloratetrandra #newzealandplants #passionflower #tetrapathaea

#nofilter The extraordinary Buddleja globosa. Nati

#nofilter The extraordinary Buddleja globosa. Native to Argentina and Chile, and now in Surbiton! A large hardy shrub, the plants are either male or female. Loved by 🐝 🐝🐝 and 🦋 🦋🦋.
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#butterfly #bee #bees #buddleja #budlejaglobosa #surbiton #riversidepassiflora

Deep joy and excitement. A visit to @thepalmcentre

Deep joy and excitement. A visit to @thepalmcentre in Ham plus Ann & Lucy. Assorted purchases including a pair of Ilex, a lovely Trachycarpus fortunei, Fatsia polycarpa ‘Green Fingers’ and more. As well as palms a fantastic range of other plants for sale, eg cacti, cannas, bananas and lots more. Plus some quite incredible huge old palms here and there and an ancient Cycas revoluta that I fell in love with.
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#thepalmcentre #palm #palmtrees #trachycarpus #trachycarpusfortunei #cycad #cycasrevoluta #canna #musabasjoo #cacti #riversidepassiflora #plantbuyingtrip

Fabulous @surbeanton porridge & ☕️. A great st

Fabulous @surbeanton porridge & ☕️. A great start to the day.
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#surbeanton #surbiton #surbitonlife #surbitonsmallbusiness #riversidepassiflora

According to my neighbour, this is the delightfull

According to my neighbour, this is the delightfully named ‘Eggs and bacon’ or ‘Butter and eggs’ plant. Less delightfully also
known as ‘Granny's toenails', The plant is one of the few flowers in the language of flowers that has a negative connotation, symbolizing revenge or retribution. Like #passiflora it contains cyanogenic glycosides but despite that is used as an animal feed. It is an invasive in some countries. @wikipedia ‘Lotus corniculatus is a flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae, native to grasslands in temperate Eurasia and North Africa. Common names include common bird's-foot trefoil, eggs and bacon, birdsfoot deervetch, and just bird's-foot trefoil, though the latter name is often also applied to other members of the genus.’
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#surbiton #riversidepassiflora #fabaceae #eggsandbacon #butterandeggs #lotus #lotuscorniculatus #invasivespecies #cyanogenic

#planthospital reopens. I found my neighbour’s A

#planthospital reopens. I found my neighbour’s Aloe Vera, which to be fair had seen better days, sitting on top of our compost heap. I’m not quite sure whether it’s frost damage or overwatering - the roots looked absolutely fine though. So soil loosened, repotted just adding sand, no compost, and given a short back & sides. Not watered. 🙏🏼
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#surbiton #riversidepassiflora #aloe #aloevera #aloebarbadensis

#youlookingatme These extraordinary non-native bir

#youlookingatme These extraordinary non-native birds loving the hot weather.
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#nofilter #ringneckedparakeet #psittaculakrameri #psittacula #parrot #parakeet #whosaprettyboy #indianringneck #indianringneckparrot #surbiton #surbitonlife #indianringnecksofinstagram #indianringneckparakeet #riversidepassiflora

Musa sikkimensis ’Red Tiger’ pup separated fro

Musa sikkimensis ’Red Tiger’ pup separated from a great plant from @bigplantnursery bought last year that overwintered well. Separating a pup from the main stem is easy if you have a large two handed 🪓 to swing. 🙀 Seriously tough. Like sawing through a turnip. So, chop down vertically as near to the main trunk as you can using any suitable implements to hand. eg axe, bread knife, spade, sharp trowel on a long handle etc. The pup will lose most of its roots which are fairly soft. Then hose off the earth, pour 6% hydrogen peroxide over the wound, let it dry/callus in the sun then into a pot. Once growing in the pot back into the ground in a new location!
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#musa #musasikkimensis #musasikkimensisredtiger #musabasjoo #ensete #tropicalgarden #tropicalgardenuk #banana #bananaplant #surbiton #riversidepassiflora #musaofinstagram

Ginkgo biloba. Hard to pronounce correctly and har

Ginkgo biloba. Hard to pronounce correctly and hard to spell. @wikipedia ‘Ginkgo biloba, commonly known as ginkgo or gingko (both pronounced /ˈɡɪŋkoʊ/), also known as the maidenhair tree, is a species of tree native to China. It is the only living species in the order Ginkgoales, which first appeared over 290 million years ago. Fossils very similar to the living species, belonging to the genus Ginkgo, extend back to the Middle Jurassic approximately 170 million years ago. The tree is widely cultivated, and was cultivated early in human history.’
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#riversidepassiflora #surbiton #ginkgobiloba #ginkgo #ancienttrees

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