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Passiflora.

OldcompostOldcompost Posts: 191
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I have trained Passiflora to grow all around the top of the green house.  The stems are healthy but the flowers no longer appear.  Do I cut it right back or leave them where they are? 
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  • Fran IOMFran IOM Posts: 2,872
    Any help for @Oldcompost? 
  • OldcompostOldcompost Posts: 191
    Fran IOM:  It's the first time no one has responded to a question asked on this forum.  I think passion flowers are so beautiful.
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    Let it overwinter with the growth on as this gives it some protection if theres hard frosts or snow. Then in April when you see new growth starting cut it back to where you want it. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I’m a bit puzzled ... is this inside or outside the greenhouse. 
    Which passiflora is it?  The hardier one or one of the more tender types ?


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ju1i3ju1i3 Posts: 189
    Photo might help. Mine is tough as old boots so mystified.
  • tessagardenbarmytessagardenbarmy Posts: 346
    My passiflora is a monster it's spread along my boundary fence and is now covering over 10 metres. Mix of  flowers and fruit all summer long. Don't  do anything to it apart from some bone meal and compost mulch
     I live in Northern  England  and it did not even blink.at the Beast from the East.
  • ju1i3ju1i3 Posts: 189
    Mine is still flowering also
  • OldcompostOldcompost Posts: 191
    It is grown from a huge pot inside the green house which never freezes and it's the all white one.  Two more died in another pot as the large leaves of a sikkim cucumber alongside starved it of light.
  • Fran IOMFran IOM Posts: 2,872
    @OldCompost Pleased you are getting some responses now. Hope they will help.  :)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    So it's possibly P. caerulea 'Constance Elliot' .... which should be fairly hardy and fine in a cold greenhouse, providing it gets the conditions it needs.

    Scroll down and click on your plant for details  https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=3128

    It should be fairly evergreen, so I would leave it until the spring and then just cut it back and tie it in to fit with where you want it, removing any growth that has been frosted or scorched as you go.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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