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A case of mistaken identity?
I have removed this plant from a pot that was on our patio when we moved in. There was a passion flower growing up the fence, it was pretty big. In January it was cut back hard in order to remove all the growth from the fence while it was replaced. I doubted it would regrow but it obligingly sprouted and I have rewarded it by giving it a lovely permanent spot in the border.
But the leaves don't look right for a passion flower! There are no clingy tendrils either. I genuinely can't see how it could have happened, but have I actually saved a different plant?!? The flower on the previous plant was closest to caerulea. What is going on? Could this *possibly* be a passion flower?
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Looks more like a honeysuckle
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes, that's what I thought. But there was no honeysuckle growing in that part of the garden! Baffled.
It's definitely not Passiflora caerulea
In the sticks near Peterborough
I'm gutted. I love honeysuckle but I already have two elsewhere, and I really, really love passion flowers - was so pleased when it appeared to have lived.
Whatever it is looks as though it's been there some years. Unless the old growth belongs to something else
In the sticks near Peterborough
Unbelievable! Just spotted what I'm pretty sure is the passiflora growing out of a crack in the concrete about 10 feet from where it was in the pot. A place where it's surrounded by concrete paths, a fence and no sunlight ever reaches! Won't be able to extract it to move it though, and it's a narrow pathway so it'll get bashed a lot :--(.