How much shade can passion vines take? I've got a semi-shaded spot I'd like to plant one (or more) in. It gets morning shade, afternoon sun for several hours. Will they do well in that environment?
Passion Vine Question
I have some in shady areas and they will grow fine. If yours get the afternoon sun they should bloom also.
Thanks! Thinking about planting some to over take the neighbor's honeysuckle!
It will certainly rake over! lol My finally started blooming after three or four years! Mine is loaded with buds galore, but very few blooms. The buds are dropping off before they bloom.
I put a lot of stuff at the roots to get to this point, a friend told me to try phosphorus.
Passion vine is on my wish list! Isn't it a host plant for a butterfly?
Most definately! It is a host plant for several in your area. Look under butterfly gardening on this website then go to vines and look it up.
www.dallasbutterflies.com In my yard I only get the Gulf Fritillaries but the further south the more use it.
Thanks, Shiela. I'll do some research.
When I was little, we had passion vine, not sure
what cultivar, but it was white petals with blue
or purple feathery thinfs.
I was prolly 5 or 6 yrs old, and we had LOADS
of orange spiky huge (at least thru my child's
eyes) cats.
I remember my mom thinking they were the
devil incarnate, and plucking them off the
passi.
Now I realize they were Gulf Frits !
Sure wish I could go back in time and
study them ! and watch them evolve ...
I'm going to plant passiflora foetida on this ladder in my back bed. Then, I'm gonna plant the blue crown one further down on the fence (to the left of this pic). Hubby has a bed of asparagus to the left of the ladder with about 18" between the back of the bed and the fence. We're thinking of putting the BC passi just behind the asparagus bed on the fence.
Metamorphize, I think.
Fauther, it's the host plant for the gulf frittilary, a beautiful bright orange butterfly. I've had several haunting my plants, even the babies I had potted up for the round up. Poor things looked so sad when I traded them.
They aren't sad now Stephanie....not sure just which ones are your babies, but they have plenty of food and friends!
This is the BC passi that is evergreen. I bet it wins over the honeysuckle! LOL!
I can tell you that I've not seen nearly as many gulf frits since I gave all the pv away! I did find a couple more volunteers out in my flower bed this evening, so I'm going to transplant those onto the ladder pictured above.
Oh btw, I kept the vines you had them on and am trying to get them to root. I love sharing passion vines with people because the GFs are usually so prolific. I have that one, P. foetida from Josephine, and love it.
I planted my Lavender Lady pv last year and it was beautiful. It gave me lots of flowers and then the cats came. I was okay with that! BUT this year they are hardly letting the pv grow before they eat all the leaves. I'm getting a bit annoyed with them! What kind of fertilizer does the pv like? Any other suggestions on how to help it grow despite the cats? Janet
Not much you can do I doubt. I have a lot because it is the evergreen kind, tends to be too invasive for some people though. At least it is full and ready when they are laying eggs, and recoups over the winter when they are in chrysalis. The variety I have is 'blue crown'.
Here is a caerulea passiflora.
This spot only gets limited sun but the vines have taken over the spiral staircase. They are pretty and you will have hundreds of big flowers but horrible fruit.
The second picture is a Native Maypop passiflora. This one grows in full shade but still flowers and fruits very well. The taste is good but not great.
Juju...I take it you don't use the stairway anymore? LOL!
There is a perfect tunnel in there.
It can get a bit hairy sometimes.
On a good day, you can have 50-100 flowers blooming or about to bloom.
No kidding.
I use it as a pollinizer for my edible passi.
I also have a Purple Passion from Hawaii and a Banana Passi from Australia.
I get 50 to a 100 buds too, but they drop off before they bloom. My neighbor thinks it look like a weed. But I think the blooms are awesome!
That is neat Juju, but you must not have the spiders, wasps, and assassian bugs that I do. I am not scared of them but would be a bit uncomfortable in the confindment.
Sylvia...are you spraying pesticides? If so they aren't being pollinated maybe.
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No I never spray pesticides. A friend says it need phosphorous. Someone one else says it need plenty of water. I'll take a picture.
No I never spray pesticides and it has no bugs on it. A friend says it need phosphorous. Someone one else says it need plenty of water. I'll take a picture.
Bu ds dropping off sounds like too much water to me.