Passion flower for the Greenhouse

Kristen - my three are.........

Passiflora quadrangularis - produces the Giant Grenadilla fruit

P.antiquensis. My other half grew this outdoors last year - it was late to get going but bloomed right up to the first frost.


And the one that I've just bought myself - P.alata. This photo was taken at OBG last year.

 

a) Gordon Bennett there are millions to choose from :(

b) Caerula hardy to -15C? I thought they were much more tender than that ... Right! mine can go outside Right Now then !!

Passiflora quadrangularis 12 °C
Passiflora antioquiensis 5 °C
Passiflora alata 5 °C

Hmmm ... 5C I could manage, 12C is not possible (well, I could bring it inside, but I am wanting to grow a decent sized climber). Or can I cut it right down in Autumn and let it regrow in the Spring? Would have room to over-winter it warmer in that case.

 

Longk

Looks like I have started somthing off .

Had a look on ebay not that many varieties do you know any good supliers
******Up date have a look at this suppier ticks all the boxes****

http://www.crosscommonnursery.co.uk/passion-flowers/
Spruce

 

Hi Strongy,
Well I find it sprawls mostly, I tend to grow it up just a few ft, then let it droop.
Infact I find most like to flower best on the way down.
Pendulous growth flowers much better than climbing growth.

I dont think its desirable to cut most passion flowers back hard in winter as I find they take a long time to get back into flowering mode the following year, light pruning in autumn followed by a spring tidy up seems to work the best, on established plants.

 

Hill house have a few................

http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk/tender_exotic_plants/m-r.html

Burncoose have P.mollisima and qudrangularis...........

http://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=3128

I can ask a Flickr contact, but it may be a few days before I get an answer.

 

Kristen - the P.quadrangularis is just a dream really! But you did ask.............

 

RHS has these suggestions

• Passiflora caerulea ‘Grandiflora’ – a large white and violet blooms up to 15cm (6in) across
• P. caerulea 'Amethyst' AGM – light purple flowers becoming deeper purple with age
• P. caerulea ‘Constance Elliott’ AGM – white with fragrant blooms
• P. ‘Eden’ – has lovely showy purple blooms.

Perhaps P. Grandiflora would be more interesting than the bog standard ones I have? (RHS says flowers are up to 6" across? !!)

P. Amethyst


P. ‘Constance Elliott’


Seems like its a bad idea to germinate from seed - unless you get the seed in the original fruit! Needs to be fresh to germinate (stored seed may take 2 years to germinate with a viability rate of only 2% :( )

 

Seed from the hybrids can revert too, or have different characteristics.
I do like the reflexed petalled Passiflora such as Amethyst a lot.

Got a reply already on sources!

Lord knows how I forgot about Roseland House..............

http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk/climbers/cat1.htm

The other suggestion was Cross Common Nursery............

http://www.crosscommonnursery.co.uk/passion-flowers/

 

Some others seen on my travels:

passiflora trifasciata 5C


passiflora coriacea 5C


passiflora Incense -8C (unless it is New Incense 8C)


passiflora Corry Rooymanns / Corry Rooymans 10C


passiflora Picturata

leaves:


passiflora Blue Stripper -10C ?

 

From Maurizio Vechias site..............

P. "Etna" (one of his own hybrids I think)

(http://www.passiflora.it/Etna5.htm)

 

Found a site in Holland. The site is a bit fragile (products-per-page jumps around, and sometimes it toggles from English site to Dutch, and some descriptions in Dutch - but I can live with that! [and Chrome translates the pages on the fly ...] - press the Union Jack if you wind up on a Dutch page). Lots of varieties, although more than half that I liked were out of stock (but there is a "notify me" button).

http://www.passifloratuin.com/en/web-shop.html

 

I was wondering if you bought any?

 

No, not got round to it as yet, but I fully intend to. He said he was happy that I send him a list of what I want, and he'd let me know when he had a complete set rooted and ready to send as a single shipment, and he said he would take payment by PayPal (I don't think those things are mentioned on his site, or maybe I just failed to find them!)

 

I bought this one, 'Purple Passion', from Thompson and Morgan last year. It's not hardy and needs to be under cover for the winter. It smells nice and would make a good greenhouse or conservatory plant, although mine lives outside for the summer.

 

Sorry Spruce only just seen this, is this the one you mean , it isn't hardy though this grows in my sunroom.
'Crimson Tears'