Hi out there. First off please excuse the spelling . Have taken 5 spelling classes and was kicked out of 2 with the explanation that something is wrong with my brain. Tell me something new. I started PassifloraÂs this last fall out of desperation. I just couldnÂt stand looking a dry grass and oak trees one more year (have been looking at it 20+ years). I had planted a Blue Crown a few years back and despite being eaten back twice by my horses it was still alive. Wow. I am known to kill everything green. I immediately purchased 40 or so passion flowers thinking they were all as hardy as my Blue Crown. SURPRISE! Well to say the least I killed a lot.

Now my situation is this. Im in northern Calif. I live in a mobile home with 2 cats, a dog, and 2 bunnies that keep all vegetation in my house trimmed. My 4 horses keep the outside trimmed. The mobile is on 6 Acers with very limited water ( 1 gallon a min.). I just got rid of 20 plus min. horses that drank 2 bathtubs of water a day and wish to make my place green with the water that has just been freed up. DonÂt laugh, IÂm resourceful.

Part of my problem is I need to keep most of my Passiflora in the ground outside. I am in, what the locals call, the banana belt. It drops down to freezing occasionally but the frost hardly ever settles on the ground. My citrus does great. I know there are marginal Passiflora and it seem to me if they are planted with a more hardy variety that the stronger of the two might protect the weaker one from the cold. Has anyone tried this? I am also planting under trees for protection. Have some other Ideas as well. IÂm very determined that these plant will survive out side its just figuring out how, and my brain is really good at creative ideas.

(used a spell check, but bet there is still some in there)