Passifloras still blooming

Here is one of my favorites. It blooms in fall and winter.

Another fall/winter bloomer

This one never stops blooming

Another one

Neat! beautiful blooms... P. alata, vitifolia, Lady Margaret and Elizabeth right?

_zem

EDIT: maybe... P. quadrangularis?

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Close, lol

Susie, what is that first one? Is it Passiflora macrocarpa, also called Passiflora quadrangularis "Warmlands"? It is solid purple? If so, I have one, and this is my second one. My first one dropped dead when the temps hit 45 so I have my second one in a portable greenhouse right now. Where is yours? Thanks! Great pics, by the way. I have my P. amethystina hybrid, my P. platyloba, and my P. sprucei all still blooming now. This is the P. amethystina hybrid that I grew from seed:

Here is P. amethystina hybrid with P. sprucei:

This is P. macrocarpa:

oooooh *eyes bug out cartoon-style* do you have cuttings available on the macrocarpa? I've been hunting this one down for ever!

-Zem

This is the P. alata 'Ruby Glow,' which finished blooming a month or so ago:

Zem, I don't, but I got mine from Logee's, and they have it for sale.

thanks! I'll look there :)

-Zem

Wow Clare, those are gorgeous! The first one is X decaisneana. It has 4 nectar gland thingies on the petioles.

Ah, okay, thanks! That one is gorgeous too.

they're all beautiful!

Here is another flower on the X. dec vine. This one might be a little clearer.
I rooted cuttings from it back in the summer and didn't harden them off when I took them out of the propagator, so they died. I will try some more in spring if you don't have this one Clare.

Thanks so much for the offer, but I've got no where to put big vines! That is sweet of you to offer though.

I do have a very special vine that I would like to keep alive, and I was just going to start a new post, but I have a feeling that you have the answers that I need. It's a Beaumontia grandiflora, and I killed my first one last winter, and this winter, I hope to keep my second one alive. Have you heard anything about BG not liking heat? I can't seem to find much growing information on this vine. Everything that I have read says that it is fairly hardy, but it has been dropping into the low 40's here lately, and my vine is very little. I want to put it in my portable greenhouse, but it gets in the 90's in there, and it may not like all the heat and humidity. It does seem to like to remain moist. You grow BG, don't you, Susie?

Oh those are gonna be the death of me! I have grown them to huge size only to have them die in the heat of summer. Yes, they like to be moist but not soggy. They don't like to freeze either. The best luck I've had so far has been in morning sun, afternoon shade in an area where the soil is slightly sandy. I've got one large(6ft) vine and 2 babies. I've got the babies in pots, the big one is in the ground. Oh yeah, they like rabbit poo.
Have you gotten a flower yet? I haven't.

Thanks so much for the growing info. No, I haven't seen a flower yet, but I've just been thrilled to keep it alive as long as six months or so. It's less than a foot tall so I don't expect it to bloom in a while. I'd like to keep it in a container. So, if yours died in the heat of summer, then it probably doesn't like heat much, and my greenhouse is a bad idea. It doesn't freeze here, but it is dropping into the low 40's at night. I'll try a different area with morning sun. Thanks!

You gals are killing me with those gorgeous passion flower!!!!
Mine are dropping leaves daily,but they always do when they come in for winter.
Sad to say,I lost the trumphet lilly,BG,vine you send me cala,your right the heat during the summer cooked her even in the shade,but was able to propagate it twice,and am glad to hear,it is still alliveand doing well!!!!
It must be a ladies vine!!!LOL!

Clare, if you like Decaisneana, then you have to try Purple Tiger. It is very similar but it is even more cold tolerant and more free flowering with longer, and wavier corona filaments.
Mark

Clare, the little ones dropped some leaves when we dropped into the 40's but they still have their new top growth. The big vine is fine so far.
T-man, my Violacea #3 didn't like the cold wind, it drooped for a while. Do you know how much cold they can take?
Mark, I saw a picture of your Purple Tiger, it is very pretty. So frilly!

LOL, Don. I'll send you a rooted cutting of mine, which is actually yours, when it gets a little bigger and has more than one stem. I killed my first one last year so I was thrilled when you sent me this one earlier this year, and I'm going to do my best not to kill this one! I wonder how it would do as a houseplant?

Mark, that one sounds neat. I'll write the name down for someday when I have more room! I'll have to go look for your picture that Susie is referring to.

Thanks, Susie. I think it would be happiest outside in the cold, even though we drop into the 40's at night too. I think the heat in my greenhouse would do it in. Thanks for your help. Susie, this link says Passiflora Violacea #3 is hardy to Zone 8: http://www.gardenvines.com/catalog/passiflora-violacea-form-p-128.html I think PlantFiles indicates Zone 9.

Cala,the book says it can take temps to 32* for short periods of time ,but she should be overwintered no less than 48*.

Oh, good, Don. I'm glad you looked that up in your book. I forgot you have a book on Passifloras. That's good to know. Does it happen to have the hardiness listed of Passiflora macrocarpa or Passiflora quadrangularis 'Warmlands'?

Clare,that would be just wonderful!!LOL
If it's alright with you.I'll wait until the rooted cutting you send is in full bloom!!!! LOL!
Maybe if it was in a acid ph potting mix it might do better,think I will check on it first.

Clare,book says temps should not fall below 12c,or about 52*
Says also after plant is 2 years of age flower more when temps reach 75*,both day and nite temps,about the same.with nite temps only falling a couple degrees,native country is Eucador,where it's loved for it's great fruits as for it flowers as well.

Duh, I have a passiflora book! I looked and looked and just now found the minimum temp for violacea #3, lol. I was looking in the wrong place!
Clare, I couldn't find either of the ones you mentioned, I think my book was printed before they came around.

I have one of the purple passifloras. Has anyone ever started by using seed? Thanks a lot.
carol

Thanks, Susie, for checking. Don found it. Don, I have that passiflora in my temporary portable greenhouse, and it did okay last year in there, but it does get down into the high 40's at night. I think I will bring it inside the house, and maybe it will flower inside. It had a bit of a mealy bug and spider mite problem this past summer so I had to give it a good spraying and might do that again before I bring it inside. Thanks for checking for me! About the BG, I think the vine has to get fairly big to bloom well. I've heard that it takes about two years in the ground before that happens. I might put it in the ground in the spring to see if it likes it better there. I'll save a rooted (flowering) cutting for you:-)

Carol, I have started some passifloras by seed. They usually flower in their second year from seed with the exception of one or two. Passiflora edulis is often started from seed. Many of the cultivars are sterile hybrids.