These gorgeous summer climbers will transport you to the tropicsWith an estimated 400,000 plant species on Earth, one of the best things about working in horticulture is that there are always, always new things to learn. Even when you have a genus so close to your heart that you think you know it inside out. Thanks to the ingenuity and dedication of breeders quietly working away in the background, sometimes you suddenly discover there are loads of new options that seem to have burst into bloom while your back was turned. One of the most wonderful examples of this is in the world of hardy passionflowers.During my fieldwork for my masters in the high Ecuadorian Andes, I fell hopelessly in love with passionflowers. From the enormous pink pendant blooms of Passiflora mollissima that scrambled up forest trees to attract iridescent hummingbirds that dart about their canopies, to the deliciously tart P edulis that grows in great bowers over seemingly every fruit and veg garden, I adored them all. Continue reading…
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