Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Passion vine, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
And now they are gone!

Yep! I whacked them all down today. They are just growing everywhere. I was thinking we'd get a cold freeze and they would die back. Nope! So I spent the afternoon cutting them down to about 8-12 inches from the ground. I think I need to try a different Passiflora vine. (sigh)

If the GF and ZLW butterflies would lay eggs and eat the vines, I'd be delighted. I have raised GF from the school on my Passiflora leaves and they do just fine. So why don't the GF lay their eggs on mine? I just don't get it.

The only other thing that I can think of is that a predator is getting the cats so they never get big enough to see. I don't know.


This message was edited Feb 10, 2008 8:33 PM