Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Dark Purple forms of Passiflora incarnata, 2 by shauna1219

shauna1219 wrote:
I got a small Dutchman's pipe vine last year that had almost every leaf eaten off it from the swallowtails. I was worried the plant was not going to survive. This year, the vine has come back with a vengeance...and then some. It has completely overtaken a podocarpus tree I planted it against. I think a lot of plants that are "used" to being food for the caterpillars/butterflies have acclimated themselves to being eaten and may actually thrive on the "pruning".

I got a couple of passion vine clipping last year, one was purple and one was red, although I have not gotten any blooms off of them yet. I also have a Passiflora x belotii that has been growing ans thriving for a couple of years.

The second pic is my Dutchman's pipe.