@Gerris2
Joseph,
How do you handle the pots during the winter months?

needrain said:@Gerris2
Joseph,
How do you handle the pots during the winter months?

The plants get a substantial pruning in the fall and then I sit each pot in our sunroom for the winter.

Well, that's basically how I do it though I don't have a sunroom. The ones I grow seem to have an extensive root system and even though I use larger containers, those roots find the holes and then establish strongly in the soil outside the container. The result is root trimming as well as vine trimming in the fall and the results haven't been entirely satisfactory for a returning passie come spring growth time.

First Bloom of this year, seems kinda of late to me

Pretty flower, the red is glowing

Thank you Joseph

Yes, James, I agree, the bloom cycle is late. I grew Lady Margaret last year, in my zone 4b garden and of the dozen different passi vines I grew she was the first to bloom, starting in July and continuous through the first few hard frosts.
I love passiflora, but did not grow them this year. I tried dahlias on my 100' trellis instead.
I can't find a picture of Lady Margaret, but here are two other pictures from last year.

Txtea said:


First Bloom of this year, seems kinda of late to me

Ha! Earlier than mine which has declined to even attempt to bloom. I think mine is P. vittifolia. Grubs got in the container of the Lady Margaret last year and ate the roots, so I replaced it with vittifolia. At the nursery they are always blooming freely and maybe I should have selected one that had blooms on it. I went for the healthiest appearing plant. I'm not at all sure they like being confined to a container, but I don't think they would survive the winter temps outside here.

Yes late Kathy, this one is not Lady Margaret, it is a off spring with another, ( Brushwood nursery) Passiflora Corinne. Donald, you are lucky they sell them in nursery in your area around here they never bring them. Sorry about the grub worms. I have mine in large pot also and once in awhile I move the pots a little and did find a grub worm under one. So I had some metal Heavy screening and placed it under all the pots. So far have not notice any more.
All the passi I have are stated to be zone 8 but will trim back and place them in the greenhouse, just hope the live such a beautiful blooming vine.

My first passie, I think it likes it here.

Wild ones from work. They covered about 1/8 acre before my boss sprayed round up on most of them.

Has anyone ever caught rabbits or chipmunks chopping your passies down? Whatever it was cut down my sunflowers stems about 5" from the ground, never can catch them. Have squirrels too but my dog is an assassin and tries to keep their population down.

I discovered in June, on a trip down to our cabin property an hour away, that I have passion flower vine growing wild all over the back yard fence! I was doing some shrub and tree watering in our oppressive heat, in hopes of not losing everything I'd recently planted (we've only just owned this 42 acre place 2 years), and saw a huge bulb-like bloom. When I walked around to the other side of that fence, I saw this bloom on a vine with 3-lobed leaves (later became 5-lobed leaves) :
Then I counted 6 more just waiting to open up! Our next trip down, they had opened and died off. Only one bloom left last Wednesday. They are so exotic looking I'm delighted to find this wildflower abounds there. Seedlings or suckers are coming up in the grass some distance from the fence and that tree, too. I may dig some of those seedlings in the grass up, pot them and bring back to our city home.

Funny story: The 1st year we owned this place, I thought this vine was a weed or maybe even worse, possibly poison ivy? Three leaves, right? The day I found it, it wasn't blooming, so I walked back to put on my garden gloves and pulled it all up, roots and all, as I was clearing the chain-link fence of all weeds. No rash appeared for 24 hours, and I knew I had brushed it on my forearm accidentally, so it wasn't poison ivy at least, phew! Well it must be hardy and must like its semi shady spot, as a number of them grew back in the same spot and there are other bits of it growing up around a nearby oak tree trunk, too! We all have to learn about garden plants over time. LOL I've since read they really do grow wild in Texas. Here I thought they were expensive, exotic flowers.

Peggy - for us up north, Passiflora are expensive, but such a treat. Having a tropical plant in Michigan is a short-lived novelty.

I am sad, if my Passiflora edulis 'Frederick' does not rebound this Fall...it is totally bye bye...I guess it has reached the limit of what it can take in our dry environment here.

Too bad, Tarev.
I love Passies - all colors.
I had that one. It was the most prolific.