Genus: Passiflora

fab pic-love the colours

Yes Marguerite we have a continental climate, hot summers and cold winters. So we can expect some nights of -20 C in the winter and sometimes in the day too, and then even colder at night. We have to grow hardy things, or else we can take them into storage for the winter, likke Dahlias, Cannas, Gladioli etc.

These look similar to a cultivar we can grow here in my zone 7 garden, Passiflora caerulea 'Clear Sky'. I have two others that will survive our winters, one is native in our area that I eat the fruit from, it is very tangy. Luckily you would be able to grow all of the passiflora cultivars.

Do you get the frost? Otherwise they are quite hardy.

Beautiful flowers. I regret they are not hardy enough to grow in my garden.

Beautiful!

Hi Fruity! This is the passiflora that bears fruit, it is known as the Hardy Blue Passion Flower. I also user to have them in my garden, they are lush :)

Thanks, I didn't know what it was when I first moved into this house and I have been hacking at it because it was strangling a fur tree, it is actually growing over an Olive Tree - when these flowers came out I was very excited and squealed with delight hehehe

Looks Great Cant wait 4 mine to look this good Fruity :D

if you are in the UK yes definitely in a pot,to be moved undercover when it gets cooler.

Hi just looking through one of my books and it says that its frost tender to 15 degrees. Unless you have a really sheltered south facing wall close to the house that stays quite warm during the winter I would be inclined to plant in a large pot that can be moved under cover.

This such a beautiful photograph!

WOW!

Thank you. It came out nice. I can't take too much credit, though. The flower is beautiful and unusual and the camera captured it. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Beautiful photo

Amazing photo

great picture and flower

Lovely picture.

So the passiflora just goes where it likes? lol I've only seen this vine growing in greenhouses, aren't you lucky??? ...love the colour... very exotic.

Thanks ! The shrub in the background is an euonymus 'aureo-marginata'

LOVE this one !! Where is that beautiful variegated leaf color coming from?

Lily that may be a different kind of passionfruit that you eat. These are edible but they have to be very ripe or else they'll make you sick (I'm told). I've never eaten one but I do save them for the seeds. These are almost hollow. The seeds have more 'fruit' around them than anything else but it's just like an embryo around a seed, not much more. The chipmunks love them though !

Thank you Jacque and Lily. Passiflora needs warmth to really get going and it's always one of those plants that I wait for and I used to worry if it made it through the winter. Now I know it's just a late one. It's probably the end of June before it gets blooms. It's well worth the wait though. Makes me think I'm in the tropics !

You Can EAT THEM! wow ididnt no that?

this has me going WOW and waiting on summer !!

did you enjoy eating them ? I like them whizzed up with other fruits.

All Your Photos are Fantastic Diohio Please keep Posting :)

Great photo, one of my favourite flowers, very sculptural :)

I have never seen anything quite like this before....it looks like a sculpture.
What a delight!

thank you! i love photography aswell as gardening ;o)
i love your mini pic (had a look at the bigger version before - now thats a lovely photo, and such a beautiful house too! i am looking forward to looking at the rest of you pics later ;o)

This set of photos is absolutely stunning. How do you achieve such wonderful results?

Hi Charlie, I wish I knew how to tell them apart, they look the same only the label tells me one of mine is male! Perhaps they have different flowers. Apparently you only need one male for 5 or 6 female plants.
The flowers tend to come under the leaves so they are best grown over a large pergola or equivalent then the bees can get in underneath. They are useful because the fruit ripens much later than other fruits.

i have grown from seeds about 35 kiwi plants theyare three years old now asyet no flowers how do i tell which sex the plants are.

yesyou can if youcancleanthe seeds then cover them lightly in seed box in a few weeks seedings should appear when large enough to handle pot them on i grow mineon in 12in dia pots and put them after frost ive done thisfor past few years you could also grow them on south facing wall mulch over roots to protect from frost they say you can graft them on to acommon passiflora for hardiness why not try them all like me.

I would like to, edulisis - edible? Can it be grown from seed, or did you buy a plant? I have a south facing greenhouse attached to the house, would that be suitable? My self fertile kiwi is growing well this year, last year it was static, so I am hoping it may fruit next year.

I love the Passionflower.My sister had one already growing in her garden in Rochester.Mum cut it back and its regrown with vigour and flowered.I have a passiflora Caerulia growing in a pot, but it hasnt flowered.It wants a garden with a wall or fence to get its teeth into.
These are the original and most passionflowers I think.My minds image of the spectacular flowers are like your photo.

This passionflower must love being on our south-east facing wall as its almost covered a whole wall in just under a year!