This was growing quite fast and I was worried that I may be growing a "problem"
Well , I know this can be aggressive too, but it is so pretty
Glad I did not yank out this vine
Yes, they are beautiful and I love them too.
Very pretty Anna....do you know the variety?
I was given the 'Incense' variety last year and love the smell and the look, but it is an agressive grower. I need those Gulf Fritilly caterpillars to get busy and eat it back. LOL!
At least the 'Incense' isn't evergreen like the 'Blue Crown'. It never quits growing.
Okay. I've got to ask. What is it? It is beautiful.
Answered my own question. Was able to find the Blue Crown passion flower in the Plant Files. The evergreen variety sounds like something I could use. Would it do well on a trellis in full sun next to brick wall? I need something badly that's really tough and everygreen in my problem area.
The passifloras are host plants for the Gulf Fritillary butterflies. The caterpillars will eat the plant down to the ground. So if you are looking to have a beautiful full vine year round, I would not suggest those. I grow the plants (full sun) only for the butterflies to lay their eggs on and then let the caterpillars eat it.
I have had good luck with a Confederate Star Jasmine on a brick wall in full sun before. Some years when we have super bad winters it will freeze back but has put out again. I tried to move it one year and it froze out, two others in the back on a trellis is still going strong.
Sheila_FW, Is 'Blue Crown' fragrant? I might be interested in an evergreen if it is fragrant.
Here is a tidbit about rooting cuttings I learned. I recently tried to root five cuttings of the 'Incense' variety in water to plant in my new garden. After a week they were starting to die so I put them in a peat like growing medium called coconut coir and kept it moist. Within four or five days four of the plants revived themselves, but the fifth didn't make it. I tried to root some in water several years ago and they all died.
Anybody else ever tried rooting them in water? Maybe rooting them in dirt is key.
Jerry
I haven't tried to root the cutting on the incense, but no luck on the BC. I have a lot of suckers come up on the Incense so I just dig and pot them.
The BC doesn't have a smell to me.
Banana, it is passiflora incarnata. I may have given it to you at the RU. It can be very aggressive. I however love the fool out of it and just remove it from wherever I don't want it.
It makes fruits also, which are not to my liking, however it is passion fruit and is used in many exotic drinks. I have never quite figured how the heck you get the juice, because it is in a jelly form and is tightly formed around the seeds.
I just put a pipe in the ground, and slip a wide wire, like hog wire over the pipe and weave it back and forth and it is an instant shade for whatever needs it, including me. LOL
Charlene
By the way that is one plant on the wire. Just one! I put one on either end of my yard swing and I am hoping it will grow as fast as they usually do. I could use the shade as the cover doesn't block the early morning sun or the evening sun. That is when I enjoy sitting in the swing with DH and coffee the most.
Charlene
If I understand correctly, you wrapped the wire around the plant and pipe? Genius! That is a reverse trellis.
They are sooooo beautiful. I keep hoping my neighbor will give me one of hers.
Carlo, come to our swap in October and I will give you one, or if i see you sooner, I do have some potted.
Josephine.
Banana, I drive the pipe into the ground. Then I "thread" the wire over the pipe. The plant takes over from there. Oh so simple. You can't even see the wire when the plant gets going.
I too have some potted incarnata plants. I love to share them. I always give a warning though that they spread by underground rhisomes. They will come up sometimes quite a ways from the mother plant. I just pull the ones I don't want and those are the ones that get potted up for sharing.
Charlene
My "blue crown" is with fruit right now. I also have the "blue bouquet" which also has fruit. I hear that those two dont have a really good taste like edulis or maypop.
I do the same thing Charlene, I hate to waste plants, but sometimes it gets me into trouble, I just have too many to deal with.
Josephine.
Well, I thought I would add a little more fuel to the fire.
This is the pure white evergreen passiflora that someone gave me at the Arlington spring swap last year.
Actually they gave it to Frank, and he couldn't remember who it was that gave it to him.
I thought it was Paige, but she said no. Anyway I planted it and it has turned out to be beautiful and a very fast grower. It only has one trunk but the upper branches grow very fast, it is now at least 15 feet in both directions and has shiny foliage with 5 sectioned leaves.
I don't think it is a native, but I sure would like to know the name of it. So if any of you know it please let me know.
Here is my beauty;
Another shot with a bud.
Charlene, how do you thread the wire? Does the pipe have holes in it?
Josephine, that is a beauty. I hope you find out it's ID
Wow, that is definately a different PV Josephine. Does it have a smell?
Very little, but it sure is pretty, and evergreen is a good thing.
Beautiful white passionflower Josephine!
I really like your pole idea charlenesplants. I'm gonna give that a try on the p. incarnata growing everywhere. I will be glad to try to root and pot some up to anyone who needs some too.
I am wondering about this Yellow passionflower, Passiflora lutea. There are a couple of vines I found growing in a mostly shady area and it doesn't have any signs of flowers yet. I'm wondering if I should try to relocate it to at least an area of dappled sunlight.
Is anyone growing the p. lutea?
I have one that someone gave me, but it hasn't grown much and of course no blooms, the flowers are supposed to be very small, one inch across.
It is a native so i do want to keep it.
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PALU2
Josephine.
I guess I'll just leave the P. lutea be; sounds like the flowers will be cute when they do show up.
This P. incarnata grows all over but not too close to the house where it really makes a problem for me. Last year it vined itself all over the blackberry bushes. I never saw the inside of the ripened fruit because the deer got to it first; they really seem to like it (and the blackberries).
I like the story of how the passion flower got it's name; that the beautifully shaped flower with its' amazing inner geometry reminded early missionaries of the crucifixion of Christ-known as his Passion.
The flowers are also edible and used in herbal medicine.
The fruits on your Passiflora look rather round, mine on the Incarnata look more oval, I wonder if it is a different kind?
Hi Josepine, I'm not real sure it is just growing wild here so I figured it must be incarnata.
This year it has just started flowering and fruit is beginning. Last year the fruit was pretty large and round.
This is a pic taken last year of the flower/leaf/buds/fruit (sorry about the glare) but I think you can see what they look like.
another pic of the flower
It does look like Incarnata maybe the fruits vary in shape, anyway it is very pretty.
The fruit on my incarnata look sort of like limes. Mine are not round either. Interesting.....
hmmm... I am always interested in some of the differences of plants that you would think are the same. The flower looks like mine do.
Could you take a pic from the top of the flower and also show the leaves?
Josephine, OMG I have to have some of the white passionvine that is evergreen.
There you have it, a trade for a goat's rue this fall. Of course if you can't get one to root, I still have the goat's rue for you! LOL
Charlene
I am going to try and root a few, you if it works out, it is yours and anyone that wants it.
But first It has to root, we shall see.
Josephine.
Here is a pic of the top of the flower that I tried taking this morning. Yes, it's growing along the blackberry bushes again this year LOL. I think you can see that the leaves have been enjoyed by some sort of bug or larva.
I have grown P lutes for several years. It is potted and in part shade. It isn't blooming yet but will soon. Shade is better for a small vine because butterflies prefer to lay on leaves in sun. There are many large passiflora in my yard that feed caterpillars. Just a few cats can strip a small vine pretty fast. I enjoy my flowers as much as I do the butterflies!
Here is a photo of lutea.
Neat Flicker!! I believe I should leave the P. lutea just as it is and hope I get to see a flower soon. It is so small and delicate looking.
I think it is lovely, is that large leaf part of P. lutea? I suppose not.
Josephine.
The leaf behind lutea is a clerodendron vine.
Here is a closer shot.
Sooo Cute!!!
That is Barbie Doll in comparison with a regular PV flower. Thanks for sharing it.
Anyone know this variety? I saw it last summer near Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Frostweed,
Your white passion flower is a Constance Elliott, or Hardy Passion Flower. Year three or four for me now.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54128/
Had a red and incensa (http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54070/) variety. Have difficulty with the red and incense returning after hard freezes. Could also be due to me digging the beds in the spring, and a colder shaded soil location versus sunny.
However, I discovered by accident (pre-DG era) that the white one is an evergreen when the stalks did not freeze back like the others. Last fall I trimmed all the foliage off, but left the stalks in the trellis. It has returned with vigor this year. Will leave the foliage on this year and see what happens. However, they easily spread underground via roots. I just yank em out, or dig partial root sections or pieces with a sprout and pot them up. Passifloras can be aggressive, even invasive under the right conditions.
Root passiflora cuttings directly into dirt. Toss the roots and new growth into a pot with just about any kind of dirt. Never had luck with root sections in water or exposed to light.