Passionfruit & Grapes

It's so lovely to be in the garden & to feel a surge of energy, after mostly lying around sick for a few days. My first passionfruit! The rain-loving snails did their best to decimate the vine during Winter, but it persisted & there is a profusion of blossoms at the top along the fence line, chasing the sun.

The new grapevine is also doing well- a couple of years I reckon, before it looks like a vine & bears fruit, but there's lots of healthy new growth on a plant which started out as a bare twig eight weeks ago. And I now also have some umbrella shade to sit in as I type, to enjoy it all: a red, oriental-style umbrella for the bigger outdoor table & green for shade on the north sun, until the grapevine matures...