I will see if mine comes back this year. I sure haven't done anything to protect them previously. There is a huge one at the clinic also that I can get a cutting of.
New Passiflora, Now What?
I am NEW to this forum and in a completely different zone (9) but, the fact it died down to the groud is snot a definite DEAD. Mine go completely leafless like a Morning glory every winter, then come back in the summer. I do not have the Latin name for mine, it does have purple flowers, though, and my second with white flowers is an evergreen here, I can pull a root out and stick it in a glass of water or a ditch in the garden and both will grow. Maybe it was too much attention and such that made the buds fall, then get nibbled? Flowers for thought from Las Vegas.
~namaste~
I have seen P. incarnata growing wild in Fla and they are not as pretty as ours in Pa. Our flowers are larger & have more color to them. I guess it's like everything else that is alive, the warmer the climate, the smaller the lifeform.