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THE PASSION FLOWER

Posted on 28 Jul, 2009 3 comments

Hello LincsLass, if you have as much luck as we did with the passion flower, you might need to take care where you plant it out. We put ours in a tub at the base of one of the cherry trees and when it got going, it began to cling to the tree which looked nice at first because of the lovely leaf shape of the two together. Before long the Passionflower had taken over the branches of the cherry so much we had to regularly untangle it all and even cut some out, it grew so rapid and thickly. It began to hang from each cherry branch and the cherry buds didnt have any chance of opening into flowers because it was gradually choked and the buds droppped off. The cherry’s leaves began to fall off too because they were all wrappd up in the twine of the passonflowers creeping stems. In the end we had to cut the pasionflower down all together to save the cherry, which we’ve had now for 10 years, though we keep it at an easy height. The present passionflower is on its own, where it can’t interfere with anything eles and has its own space so it gives beautiful green-blue flowers over a long time.

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Marguerite

Oh dear, sounds like a bit of a disaster there. Yes, passionfruit is a vine, best grown along a fence or trellis, away from trees and shrubs, which it can take over. Do you have much luck with your cherry tree otherwise? I mean, no birds getting the fruit?

28 Jul, 2009

Dorjac

There is a self sown Passion Flower over the road from us. It grows on a fence at the back of a car park. It stretches about 20 feet either side of the main stem. Our neighbour bought one at a car boot fair. Asked me where he should plant it. I referred him to the carpark specimen. He decided not to plant it after all. I had one given me but it never thrived. So I was lucky as I planted it near shrubs.

28 Jul, 2009

Lincslass

Thanks Gardendotty,in fact I,ve planted mine to grow along the fence that seperates my dog run from the main garden and that runs nearly the length of the garden, so I,m hoping it does grow well and disguises the fence.......

28 Jul, 2009

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