I broke one of my garden rules just a bit. I'm trying to buy only plants that are edible, useful or native for my garden. I'm not sure if this passionflower will ever set a fruit that would be edible and I don't know that there is any useful reason to have a passionflower in the garden other than it's beauty or as a fruit, but I still bought it and planted it this spring. What a treat it was to come home and see the first blossoms had opened.
This is love-in-a-mist, or nigelia. I fell in love with this flower as a child. It was one of the flowers my grandfather always grew. I'm pretty sure he gave me seed from his garden for the first garden I had. Some of the flowers in my garden might be descended from those first seeds as every year I collect some of the seed and scatter it for the next year.
I think I'll need to work on my sweet pea quilt this weekend.