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Passion flower advice

CompleterookieCompleterookie Posts: 130
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Evening All
Ive been given 4 passion flowers. I have trellis on house wall but the ground is concrete, can I put the passion flowers into pots to climb the wall.. If so how bigger pots.. Thanks in advance for any advice 

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  • squirral87k4-WvGwTsquirral87k4-WvGwT Posts: 167
    edited May 2021
    I don’t have the answer but I have a similar question so I’m interested to see responses. 

    Also if anyone has a Passion flower covering a wall and is willing to share photos, I would love to see how it looks in reality. Couldn’t find many photos online of this plant in the UK in gardens. 

    Thanks..
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    How big is the wall?! One happy passion flower planted in the ground could eat the house. Our neighbours in the UK had one the other side of the fence and we were constantly battling to keep it under control on our side.  Restricted in a pot they would be less vigorous but that’s probably a good thing if you have four. Not sure about pot size, but probably a reasonable size, say 40cm. How rampant depends on your location too, we were in the South, in the North of the UK they might be more polite.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    No picture, I'm afraid but my daughter's last house had one that was a monster and covered a shed with no difficulty at all and seeded like mad. I had one in a container, a VERY big container and that did limit it but it still covered the wall of my greenhouse and had to go, in the end. One point, daughter's soil light and sandy and position sheltered; my soil heavy clay and site windy. Mine wouldn't survive winter outdoors.
  • JAC51JAC51 Posts: 175
     I’m in Essex with clay soil and my white Passion flower was planted in the ground last year. Was lovely but didn’t survive the winter though.  It also refused to scramble”up” always going off horizontally and twining round everything that got in it’s way
  • dd.allanvH8PcfkZdd.allanvH8PcfkZ Posts: 1
    Can you grow a passion vine  and have it hang over a wall 
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    We have the standard mauve one, very hardy and a thug
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