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A Few Pics From Strybing

11 years ago

Last Sunday I visited Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. It was a beautiful warm day. I spent close to four hours there, and took all of twelve pictures. I guess I was too distracted skipping around from garden to garden.
Mostly I photographed the Passifloras growing along the perimeter chain link fence, though P. herbertiana was nestled in a beautiful Banksia in the Australian section (my favorite in the botanical gardens). I also noticed, but didn't photograph, three or four newly planted 'Mission Dolores', all in full bloom. They were so small the blooms were nearly touching the ground.
Exoniensis

I like this one because the bee is about to fly into the floral tube, where they completely disappear.

Pink enough for you?

Herbertiana

Mathewsii alba, hard to photograph, also maybe not the most photogenic. The bees sure seemed to love it.

This bee is proving her mad skills by planking on mathewsii alba

This one was near the spot with the label tarminiana 'Bailadores', but I was under the impression 'Bailadores' was white.

Thanks for looking!

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Comments (2)

morningloree
11 years ago
I am just going to have to plan a trip out there. The pictures are beautiful. Some of these passionflowers I can only dream about. Thanks for posting.
mark4321_gw
11 years ago
Great to hear they replanted the P. 'Mission Dolores'. The earlier plant (not the original plant, which is at a private residence) died from last December's freeze. Maybe 27 F there? A friend lost hers in Palo Alto 2 years ago at a similar temperature. If you ever see the plant advertised as a zone 9 or even zone 9b plant that's a bit of an exaggeration.

The P. tarminiana Alba 'Bailadores' was a really nice plant, but it died a couple years ago due to a fungus, I'm told. I heard the fungus was the same as the one that wiped out the natural population, I think in Venezuela. I did notice one of those at Saturday's sale, in bud for $15. Below is a photo of the plant when it was alive.
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