Passionate Pair
by Craig Wood
Title
Passionate Pair
Artist
Craig Wood
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
I discovered these on a neighborhood garage sale quest. Many people ascribe religious significance to this beautiful blossom. The passion flower is a vine native to South America. There are more than 400 species in the genus Passiflora, most of which are evergreen tropical vines. The passion flower ranges in color from blue to purple to white and is known for its beautiful complexity. In addition to brightening the garden, passion flowers have been used medicinally as natural sedatives and remedies for nervousness and insomnia, according to botanical-online.com. The flowers are favorites of butterflies.
Botany
The passion flower's twining, spiral tendrils can grow to 30 feet long. Gardeners usually train it to grow around a trellis, fence or netting. It flowers from summer through early fall, and the blooms are about three inches in diameter. The passion flower's blooms have five petals and five sepals that are white, red or purple, and a fringe-like corona of purple and blue. After the flowers are spent, the plant produces yellow or orange fruit.
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September 21st, 2014
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Comments (12)
Carolyn Rosenberger
Congrats on your contest win! The intense colors of the background provide a great contrast for the flowers! L&F
Randy Rosenberger
A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to you for winning our PHOTO to match Our "In House" photo contest TOPIC for this week's entries! You have done a superlative job, on the matching of your lovely photo, with the relevancy of the SUBJECT GIVEN! I am very happy for you and proud of your great accomplishments! Check out our HOMEPAGE, and the winning entries are just below SUPER FEATURES, AND JUST ABOVE REGULAR FEATURES! Forever, Elvis http://fineartamerica.com/groups/wisconsin-flowers-and-scenery.html
Barbara Chichester
Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in one of the most highly viewed Art Groups on Fine Art America. MOTIVATION MEDITATION INSPIRATION! From the hundreds of pieces of artwork received daily to review and choose from, your work has been chosen because of it's Excellence! Congratulations!
Craig Wood replied:
Thank you Barbara so much for the selection of my "Passionate Pair" for feature in MMI.
Randy Rosenberger
As administrator of the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group, it is with pride and honor that I choose to feature this beautiful piece of your artwork on our homepage! Works of this stature and beauty are very deserving of special recognition, which you are receiving within our family of friends and fine artists in the WFS group. Congratulations on your feature on our homepage. You are very deserving of this honor. Liked Forever, Elvis Randy B. Rosenberger
Craig Wood replied:
Thanks so much Elvis/Randy for your compliments and feature in WFS. Very special to me.
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