Bogturtle's Carden- Sept, 2026

Just wanted a photo of a flower and the resulting fruit of the native to our South, the hardy Passion Fruit, Passiflora incarnata. Mine is growing on the wire of the fenced in veggie garden. And it is the chosen clone called 'Alba'. Not a great smell to me, but I am not what is to be attracted. Supposedly, the fruit is edible, but almost useless, having so many seeds. Nevertheless, my grandson has great interest in every type of food, and may separate out the pulp, just as an experiment. 

I did not really want any video, but my phone seems to have a mind of its own. 

Not enough blooms to make an advertisement, but Daylily 'Happy Returns' has. And I have rooted out most of the Japanese Honeysuckle, Virginia Creeper, and similar pests. A new mulch of chipped up branches is planned. 

Blooming nicely in the main perennial bed, between where we park and the fence hiding the pool. And I cannot recall planting it. Would never have chosen this pink. And Deer do munch on Phlox paniculata when they can. 

 Deer got to about the only specimen of the Obedient Plant, and it has rebloomed with these few flowers. In a pot by the circular bed that has the Daylily plants just shown. I am going to guess Physiostygia virginiana, without checking. It is a native, and I think its usually pink.

Most gareners would probably prefer the normal wine or purple color of the flowers of Dolichos lablab, the Hyacinth Bean. And especially because the seed pods are also brilliantly colored. Because the curved seed pods look like a crescent, one advertiser listed its seeds, for sale, as 'Ruby Moon;.