I brought this plant earlier this year as a garden centre, it had a hardiness rating of -5C so I thought I'd give it a shot. I enquired a...Read Morebout the plant as I didn't know much about it, and was informed it was a tropical type, and would not grow well, however to my surprise, it has rampantly smothered the fence and is now popping up in places it shouldn't (ie in concrete cracks quite a way from the main stem). I would say this plant is actually more rampant than Passiflora caerulea.
However the big test is winter, it may or may not survive, but it's October right now and it's still growing. I'll update in January.
Edit: It's now January, mid-Winter, it's been a fairly mild winter so far, but this has been fine, in it's sheltered position, that said it hasn't seen below 3C (37F), but the days have been quite cool (between 8C to 12C (46F to 54F), yet it still seems to grow, somewhat of a surprise, or maybe it's tougher than I was informed.
I let this plant grow wild up into the trees. I noticed this year around Oct. 1st., a medium sized, orange butterfly laying eggs on the e...Read Morends of the trendles. Tiny orange/yellow dots. I'm keeping an eye on them.
I brought this plant earlier this year as a garden centre, it had a hardiness rating of -5C so I thought I'd give it a shot. I enquired a...Read More
I let this plant grow wild up into the trees. I noticed this year around Oct. 1st., a medium sized, orange butterfly laying eggs on the e...Read More