Back to nature

It's been a while since I've done a flower picture, so I thought I'd share this blossom I found along Whitehead Street the other day.

It's obviously a passionflower, though I didn't know they grew here. The Wiki entry for passiflora says they're native to the Keys; I sure knew they're native to Tennessee.

Last summer I had Brenda, who works on the farm, dig up a few before we cut the hay, so we could get them trailing up the trellises, free fill-ins for the clematis that we paid for a decade ago. She says they've rooted nicely, and should be ready to plant in the spring.

Given their clinginess (note the spiral off to the right), they shouldn't have any problem making it up and over the arches.