CLOSED: Fragrant Passion Vine, possibly 'Incense' available for SASE

I have several rooted plants of a fragrant purple flowered passion vine, probably P. incarnata 'Incense' available for return postage:

http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/54070/index.html

It may be considered "invasive" by some -- it will spread rapidly by its underground root system. The plants will shoot up as much as about 30 ft from the original plant and keep on spreading. I have been able to keep it under control where I don't want it to grow by digging up the offshoots as soon as they appear. It can cover a fence or trellis within a growing season in a sunny location.

It is a host plant for the Gulf Fritillary butterfly. The caterpillars tend to eat only the young, green shoots of my plant and leave the parent plant to grow and flower.

Please send me a D-mail and specify how many rooted plantlets you want.

I am offering these for return of exact postage via your preference for shipment method. I am currently experiencing a glut of plants (if such a thing is possible for an obsessive gardener!) and don't have any particular plants I want in trade (but you may be able to tempt me with some woodland wildflowers that would do well in Zone 8b/9a subtropical heat and humidity or "true blue" flowers. I consider Plumbago truly blue, but I have an abundant supply of Plumbago already).

Jeremy

You have dmail

Yes please!
Two rooted cuttings would be wonderful. Will they be OK in a USPS priority package with bubble wrapping? Just let me know how much postage to send. I will send stamps. Is that OK?
ROX

Rox - if you have not already done so, please send me a D-mail with your request. That makes it easier for me to keep track of whom I owe plants and for me to follow up on SASE offers. Stamps, cash, checks, money orders, or PayPal (least preferred because of the fees) are O.K. for payment of whatever the postage turns out to be.

Jeremy

Dmail to you

Jeremy
I would like some also,, I can send postage. just let me know how to send. Or I can send you some buttercup wildflowers if you like.
vicki

Jeremy, you have Dmial! Thanks so much for offering these!

May I?? Shirley

Can these be a container plant? And then be taken in the garage over winter?
Sherry

if any left me please??

There should be plenty for all. I'm delighted tonight to get the news that the person I work for part-time doing office work wants to have the week to herself to get paperwork organized before further integrating me into her at-home promotional/advertising business, so I have unexpected time available to garden and satisfy trades and SASE requests over the next several days. YIPPEE! No matter what the task, I'd rather be gardening! I'll check tomorrow and get a fairly accurate count of how many passifloras vines I have to send.

Sherry, I've not had any experience with overwintering passion vines as they are generally hardy here (we have nights as cold as 28 F or lower a few times in December and January in most years). You might check the Plant Files listing provided above and look for the zip code reports to see if there are any from your area, and check the DG members that have made posts about the plant. If you see any members that grow passion vines in your climate Zone, I'm sure they won't mind receiving a personal D-mail from you to ask what methods they use to overwinter the passion vines (if overwintering protection is needed).

Jeremy

Wow! There was a somewhat overwhelming response to this offer! I had 28 D-mails in my inbox this morning from previous messages I was holding for reply. After this offer and my Ageratum houstonianum SASE offer, the inbox count jumped to 52!

I've marked this offer "closed" so that I can be sure I can handle the requests that I've received thus far. I should be able to make the offer again sometime in the near future. One thing you can depend upon with a passion vine in our climate is that it will send up new shoots throughout its growing season!

What I think I will do for future offers is pot up the passion vines as they pop up (instead of tossing them out as weeds!), and make the offer again with an exact count of how many are available at any particular time.

Thanks for all your interest! I am glad the passion vines will be going to good adoptive homes!

Jeremy

Jeremy,
I didn't send you a d-mail, but requested some in this thread. Am I included in your offer this time?
Thank you,
Sherry

Sure, Sherry, but please do send me a D-mail so that I can have it to reference when sending out the passion vines. If you are not listed in the DG Member Address Exchange, please provide your mailing address.

I'm hoping to soak down the passion vine sprouts and uproot them .tomorrow, then let them have a day or so to recover from the transplant shock, and hopefully be able to ship them out Monday or Tuesday.

Jeremy

As for hardiness - plant files is showing to 6a but there's someone who say's it "comes back" every year in zone 5b.

The hardiness can vary within the microclimates of an area, I've found. A gardening friend of mine here in Jacksonville lives only about 1/2 mile from the St. Johns River. Her garden's close proximity to a large body of water causes the winter temps to generally stay above freezing and her microclimate is more like 9b (what you would find about 1 hour south of Jacksonville around Daytona). None of her plants freeze back -- she has a brugmansia that is 8 ft high! and the annuals perform as perennials. My garden has some water nearby, a smaller river and a "creek" which is really a tidal marsh most of the time, so I am able to keep some things going that would freeze a little further west of here and am borderline Zone 8b/9a for hardiness. Gardening friends about an hour west are definitely 8b. But we are all in the Zone 8b range according to the maps.

O.K. enough with the lesson on Zone variances from me. I do find I can keep a lot of things coming back that might normally freeze by piling a nice blanket of hay (about 4 - 6 inches works for me) around their root crown (at soil level around the main stem or trunk of the plant) prior to the first frost. If the root crown survives, the plant can often send out new shoots in the Spring even if everything above the root crown gets blasted back by freezes. This method may work with the passion vines in colder climates.

Jeremy