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Passiflora 'Lavender Lady' (Lavender Lady Passion Vine) – An attractive passion vine with deep blue-green three lobed leaves and 4 inch wide flowers composed of lavender petals that are darkest toward the tips and nearly white in the center that surround the erect stamens and filaments that are different shades of purple. Blooms intermittently throughout the year, peak bloom season is during spring and fall.
Full sun with regular watering. Hardy to at least 20 F.
A hybrid produced in by Patrick Worley using Passiflora amethystina and P. caerulea. This plant is often noted as a synonym for P. 'Amethyst', an old established cultivar in England that looks very similar but has different parentage. It is noted that Passiflora 'Lavender Lady' is pollen sterile, where P. 'Amethyst is not.
This information about Passiflora 'Lavender Lady' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.
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