Sounds beautiful. It's still too cold to keep anything outside here but I have some that are blooming sporadically inside. Unfortunately the colors are very washed out inside, even under the HID lights.

Sounds real pretty. I have buds on Victoria, Anastasia and Lav. lady so far.
The lav. lady bloomed once already this year. the hummers seem to love that one and found it right away.

I hope we can keep this thread alive since Spring is just starting in much of the country.

Two days ago my first opened--P. x exoniensis from Strybing Arboretum. This is "cheating" since it was in bud when I bought it in early March. However the number of buds between it and a second plant has tripled since I got them: 50+ between two one gallon plants (that desperately need to be repotted...). 4 more flowers should open in the next 4 days on the two plants. One plant belongs to someone else and is only here temporarily.

The flowers are pendant and close to 5 inches across; this one is propped on its side so you can see it.

Very soon to bloom (a couple days)--P. 'Lavender Lady'--tons of buds

Soon to bloom:

P. edulis 'Nancy Garrison (source Grassy Knoll)--many buds.
P. 'Blue Horizon' (source Annnie's Annuals) a number of buds.

In case someone is interested in P. x exoniensis and can't make it to a Strybing Arboretum monthly sale (in SF), Grassy Knoll sells it as does Kartuz. I can recommend both of them; I've mail ordered Grassy Knoll. Otherwise drop me a note in a few months--I will probably have material for cuttings at some point. I have not successfully rooted it yet, though.

Love that beautiful exoniensis!!! Mine still does not have buds!

Here are my first blooms of 2009:

Passiflora Reflexiflora

P.Blue Caerulea

P.Kermesina

P.Lady Margaret

I have also already had a ton of P.Lady Lavendar flowers too. That vine is so free-flowering. So is my Reflexiflora, Lady Margaret and caerulea.

Beautiful flowers passionlove,they put quite a show!My collection is not that big,it consists only of some P. edulis seedlings and a blue Caerulea(Had also a white Caerulea and yellow edulis but died on me...grrr...).Blue Caerulea finally bloomed after 8 years(from seed):

Spot the flowers! :-D
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I thought I'd add a couple:

P. edulis 'Nancy Garrison'

P. 'Blue Horizon'

A couple non-Passifloras for variety (I hope that's OK...):

Aristolochia trilobata

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Cerinthe retorta

Aristolochia looks like a carnivorous plant!Very cool!(its ughllyy!!i order you to throw it away..no wait!...just give it to me!) lol

The Aristolochia smells pretty bad, too. It does attract flies that way and traps them for a while, but only for pollination--they are released unharmed.

I have another one--a picture of last year's flowers. This one actually smells exactly like Lemon Pledge. I'll try to avoid straying from the thread too much and just give a link to a picture. This is A. gigantea, 8 or 9 inches:

http://s333.photobucket.com/albums/m393/mark43210/Aristolochia/?action=view&current=Aristol_gig2_2.jpg

A friend (not me) dissects these:

http://www.alsgh.com/serveimage.php?key=94
(scroll down)

http://www.alsgh.com/blog/2008_08_01_archive.html

I do take cuttings of these occasionally, by the way.

The flowers look like rotten meat...yummy!Too bad nurseries here sell common tropical plants,if i had the chance id buy one!