Tuesday, April 12, 2011

certainly the strangest thing I grew last summer!

This is a Dutchman's pipe, Aristolochia, a fantastic vine I love! It is completely bizarre and the butterflies can't get enough of it! It is a great shade vine and it bloomed under my porch rather than out facing the light which was interesting but not so bad considering the unopened buds look more like an anatomical part of a Dutchman's body than an actual pipe... so anyways...

 
See what I mean!
Unfortunately this one didn't make it through the winter since it is zone 9-11 even though I mulched it like crazy... This year I'm searching for the perennial I've seen before in PA...

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