Passiflora and other "exotic" climbers

I suppose alata is very tender @pete ?

 

Yes it needs a bit more than just frost protection to do well, probably a min of 10c I think. But worth a try a bit cooler.

 

Apart from anastasia which I don't have anymore which was a kind of dark pink I did at one time have a plant of P. racemosa , a good red one and it's a srange one as the flowers form in clusters from the same place each year, similar to how Hoya flowers do.

It was also a bit more compact than some.

 

That's done it! I might bin the huge P. mollissima that guzzled litres of Miracle-gro and didn't produce a single flower, and have a go with alata.....

 

P. mollisima is one of those cool flowering ones, manicata is the same, I found manicata grew like crazy all summer but only budded up in autumn as it got cooler.
Doesn't really fit in with our growing conditions being, I believe, from higher altitude in the tropics.

They sometimes group those types under Tacsonia.

There is another scented one which is a bit easier than alata and it a hybrid between alata and cerulea, if my memory is correct, its X Bellotti, or sometimes called Empress Eugenie.
It still has the scent.