We have a Passion flower on a south facing house wall. I prune it to about 3feet high every other year.Over the last 10 years it has produced 'rootlets' which I have passed on to other gardeners.
It produced orange edible fruit (tastes like weak raspberries) .I never bothered watering it until this Spring (once a week) ,Now it has produced the most amazing crop ever ! All the more fruit for our grandchildren.
Hmmmm is it correct these fowers only stay open for 1 day?!
I waited ages for 1 of these quite freaky flowers to pop open, and luckily, on the day got a pic, but was so confused when i returned the next day and it had closed back up! I read up about it turning into a fruit but unfortunately, it's now fallen off.. I only had the 1 bud as it was only bought as a tiny plant in June!
Also, do slugs and snails love your guys plants? Cos they're literally eating mine to death
Bought this today, not variety name, but says not hardy on the ticket? Does anyone know the variety and can I keep it outside, it's on a south facing wall in a sheltered courtyard, if I protect it with mulch and fleece?
That looks like Passiflora caerulea which is more less hardy once established.If the top get frosted off it regrows from the base. It can get big and spreading.
I inherited a climbing Passion Flower and I have cut off the sad looking tendrils. It looked very sick for a while but, with the occasional drenching with water, has come back full of growth. I do not feed it.
Hi, I'm new to this forum - however, yesterday I purchased a Passionflower 'Snow Queen' and wanted to put it on a trellis but, have read that they need a sheltered place. This trellis is at the garden end of a side alley and can catch the wind when it blows here in Spalding, Lincs. Can anyone advise me if it may do well here as it will get lots of sun but, I'm worried if the wind will affect it much
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I planted passion and are having a problem , it's passion was lethal plant galls , no one knows the cause and showed me how to handle sick
We have a Passion flower on a south facing house wall. I prune it to about 3feet high every other year.Over the last 10 years it has produced 'rootlets' which I have passed on to other gardeners.
It produced orange edible fruit (tastes like weak raspberries) .I never bothered watering it until this Spring (once a week) ,Now it has produced the most amazing crop ever ! All the more fruit for our grandchildren.
@ bubba ray
+ anybody else growing passiflora... :-)
Hmmmm is it correct these fowers only stay open for 1 day?!
I waited ages for 1 of these quite freaky flowers to pop open, and luckily, on the day got a pic, but was so confused when i returned the next day and it had closed back up! I read up about it turning into a fruit but unfortunately, it's now fallen off.. I only had the 1 bud as it was only bought as a tiny plant in June!
Also, do slugs and snails love your guys plants? Cos they're literally eating mine to death
Thank-you,
Char
That looks like Passiflora caerulea which is more less hardy once established.If the top get frosted off it regrows from the base. It can get big and spreading.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I inherited a climbing Passion Flower and I have cut off the sad looking tendrils. It looked very sick for a while but, with the occasional drenching with water, has come back full of growth. I do not feed it.
Hi, I'm new to this forum - however, yesterday I purchased a Passionflower 'Snow Queen' and wanted to put it on a trellis but, have read that they need a sheltered place. This trellis is at the garden end of a side alley and can catch the wind when it blows here in Spalding, Lincs. Can anyone advise me if it may do well here as it will get lots of sun but, I'm worried if the wind will affect it much