My Blue Crown Passion Vine is blooming! The frame it's growing on is up against a south facing brick wall so the vine never died back this Winter .. thus the super early blooms!

Lucky you! Sigh, I've tried so many times to keep a passie alive here through the winter with a notable lack of success.

I had the same problem until I put the frame against the brick wall, but considering your zone I don't think that would help.

What's ironic is that we had one growing next to our house in SoCal; darn thing tried to take over the entire flower bed. Heh, it was so obnoxious that I tried to get rid of it with no success! It's probably still there.

How very pretty, Anne!! Don't their blooms just make your heart skip. I know that sounds hokey but....
Woofie, I grow a lot in pots and the tender ones, I keep in the tub all winter. Could you try that?

I overwintered my two plants indoors. A couple months ago I cut back much of the vine. It has rebounded and has completely filled a 4 ring tomato cage trellis. I may have to cut it back again before I bring it outdoors. Healthy, it is!

Glad to hear that! Mine is blooming practically every day now.

This is the kind I grow. I find it very weedy....grows every where. Are all passies like that? I am tempted to try other colors but hesitate.

Yes Missy, Passiflora can get out of hand very quickly .. that's why I always grow it in containers and never put it in the ground.

I share a lot of them and plant the others out for the sacrificial butterfly plants and then I always have a big blooming one

I've already notice some of the Gulf fritillary munching on mine .. way too early - usually a mid to end of Summer event.

Same here, way too many and it gets harder and harder to keep them off of my new babies,

Mine has been blooming for quite a while and now has many fruits, but the fruits - felt like a ballon - kinda hollow.
This is a thug --it's taken over one side of the fence; had it for several years.

It has rebounded and has completely filled a 4 ring tomato cage trellis.

I was considering digging up a piece of a root, that grows naturally around these parts, near a ditch that the City doesn't always mow down,completely. Sometimes, they cut it & then no blooms & the Butterfly I guess would like to lay some eggs on those. But, the flower is much different than yours & may be incarnata, instead of coerulea ? I did notice, that bumble bees seem to be the :perfect pollinator, of them.

They even grew wild in Hawaii & I had a favorite, that was awesome & even better than the one called 'Incense' which I grew, just because it reminded me, so much, of the other..
I remember lifting on the 40' vine in the under growth to figure out, where it may have a flower, or hopefully locate a dryfruit even to get seeds, many years later, but no such luck !

Zazinnia said:This is the kind I grow. I find it very weedy....grows every where. Are all passies like that? I am tempted to try other colors but hesitate.

Yes, all passies are like that. I was told recently by a nursery man, the white ones are even more aggressive than the blue ones.