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Passion flower problem

tom_notontom_noton Posts: 6
in Problem solving
Hi guys. 

My beautiful Passion flower has a bit of disease on the main shoot. The plant is about 3 years old and goes crazy every year. Is there anything I can do with it to protect it or help it?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2020
    Hi @tom_noton and welcome to the forum 😊 Is that a recent photo ... are you in the UK?

    That looks like powdery mildew as a result of drought. Planting close to a fence or a wall often suffer from a ‘rain shadow’ effect and dry out at the roots even if it had been raining. 
    Also there needs to be a much larger area of bare soil around the root area. The grass is competing for moisture and nutrition. If you’re not going to have a proper border along that fence then the minimum your passionflower needs is a semicircle of bare soil 1m in diameter, so that you can mulch and improve the soil (covering those bare roots I can see 😮) and apply feed, and water generously and regularly in the summer. 

    Hope that helps 😊 

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





  • tom_notontom_noton Posts: 6
    Dovefromabove said:
    Hi @tom_noton and welcome to the forum 😊 Is that a recent photo ... are you in the UK?

    That looks like powdery mildew as a result of drought. Planting close to a fence or a wall often suffer from a ‘rain shadow’ effect and dry out at the roots even if it had been raining. 
    Also there needs to be a much larger area of bare soil around the root area. The grass is competing for moisture and nutrition. If you’re not going to have a proper border along that fence then the minimum your passionflower needs is a semicircle of bare soil 1m in diameter, so that you can mulch and improve the soil (covering those bare roots I can see 😮) and apply feed, and water generously and regularly in the summer. 

    Hope that helps 😊 
    Thank you so much for your reply. Yep that photo was when I made the post. I’m in Nottinghamshire. Thank you for the advice. Is there anything I should do with the actual plant? Nothing i can cover the damage with? Many thanks 

    Tom


    Merry Christmas 🎄.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’ll grow replacement leaves in the growing season.  
    Depending on the variety, it may benefit from some fleece in the cold weather. This should help
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=295

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





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