Passiflora

Thanks for the offer of a cutting Scotkat, but I aready have one.
Dont think I would prune now, you'll cut off potential flowering stems, cant you just wind them around.

 

No problem Pete.
yes I could wind them round.
I have cut back a few weeks ago as it was just getting too big and untidy and still she has flowered.

Buy pruning now would this determ if she was to bloom as much again next year.

 

Pruning now would have very little impact on next years growth as they flower on the current seasons growth.
The normal growth pattern outdoors is that they grow a certain length of stem and then start to form flower buds at each leaf stalk, if you cut that flowering stem back it then grows side shoots that grow a bit more before making any buds, so delaying flowering.

 

Pete another beauty,like the vibrant red.

Do you have to buy the plants from a specialist?

How do you overwinter do they need heat.

I am lucky even though my two greenhouses are unheated have a conservatory built on to the house which has heat in the winter.

Normally would take passion flower indoors for the winter.
I was hoping to get her planted out in a permanent spot in the garden this yr but so far she is still in her ceramic container.

 

I bought mine from various places but wisley was one and a few of the mail order people sell them.
They're not really that rare if you look around.
A good few are OK just frost free, some might be OK in a cold greenhouse, others need more heat and some are tropical. You need to read up on them before you buy, some can be rampant also.
Its getting a bit late now I would think to plant out, as its best to do that in the spring, that way the plant has all summer to establish.
Especially if it gets a bit cold in your neck of the woods in winter.

 

Thanks Pete you have been really helpful as I have found out more from you than I knew about passion flowers.
But its like any hobby specially gardening you can get hooked,know that about my fuchsias.
At one time I would buy as fuchsias stood out mind you always a small fuchsia under �£ as I got the pleasure of seeing her grow.
before I knew where I was, I must have had about 150 at one time over the yrs have lost a few.

And now I am choosy not so keen on the heavy doubles now pefer single or semi single and you get to have favourites.

I only have around 12 fuchsias as I now have started to enjoy other plants in my garden and get a wee bit adventures.I enjoy doing my containers and hanging baskets.

 

My Passiflora is currently running riot underground and coming up through the lawn as well as in a small border - methinks it will have to go despite the pretty flowers....

 

Chobart, I have the same problem .. it's driving me berserk sprouting up like wildfire ... I don't see the things I want to do this do this! :eek: One moment it's not there ... then it is ... I rip it up immediately ... sod the flowers ... aagghh!

 

If you damage the roots of an established plant they tend to sucker.

 

So we're stuck with this problem the, Pete? We did dig the original plant up as we decided it was in the wrong place. Then some shoots came up in the same place so I painted Tumbleweed on it, which obviously has not worked.

Do all Passifloras do this? My pink one is in a rectangular concrete pot because of the problem with the blue one.

I have the same problem with the Poinsettia but we've not allowed it to reshoot and I'm training it into a tree, but I get lots of suckers there and several times a week have to de-nude the base.

 

I'm not sure if all passion flowers sucker, as you know there's not many that we can plant out, most I have grown have been in pots.
But I would guess it can happen with others, its best not to plant where your going to cultivate underneath, as you found, if you cut off a root it becomes a root cutting.
Why chobarts is coming up in the lawn is a bit of a mystery I think.

 

I think I know why .. mine has "run" at least six feet from where I planted it! I find them growing up under our lime tree, the pergola, between cracks in pavings ... you name it! One moment (it seems) they're not there, the next they are .. a foot tall!

By the way, I meant to say regarding the Poinsettia "we've now allowed it" rather than "we've not allowed it" .. but maybe you figured that typo out!

 

I am now the proud owner of a violacea Victoria, courtesy of Kedi-Gato! Our new Giga Garden Centre had them in yesterday. They also one called Kaiserin Eugenia.

Unfortunately, we are not finding any good information on it. Are they uncommon?

 

I've not heard of them, but thats not saying much.
There seems to be new hybrids coming along all the time these days, perhaps thats what they are.

 

Here's a link about the first one, LoL - in that American site that always seems to come up trumps Dave's Garden! :rolleyes:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/53492/index.html
and the second
http://coolexotics.com/plant-504.html