very nice surprise!

Rhonda, I believe it's Lady Margaret, but not sure. I bought it at a flea market in Mt. Dora, and it had a hand-written tag that said "red passionflower". At the time, I thought there were only two kinds, red and purple - LOL!

Ohhh she is beautiful

How old is your plant? I planted a small plant in February and its over 50 ft long and covering, not only my fence but climbing up my neighbors trees. I had to cut it back as my neighbors are not happy with this aggressive vine. Not a single flower. I planted it to attract butterflies, but with no flowers, no butterflies....just angry neighbors!

Jane

Jane

have had a similar experience with a red form very shy flower except when allowed to grow wild lol. Fortunately I have very understanding neighbors their cabbage palms are gorgeous when covered with scarlet flowers . Have read there are are over 500 species and an equal # of hybrids and original was given to me as a cutting so have no idea what it is .

Passiflora is host species for a whole group of butterflies the cats eat the ;leaves . This particular form seems to be disliked by the butterflies have never experienced cats It has completely crowded out the purple form over the years .

It is by far the most aggressive plant I've seen and found no way to control it though I prune it twice a week !! Which means no flowers at all!!

Last week i was up on a ladder pruning a carombola and noted conspicuous red flowers four doors away!! I sure hope they are not mine lol

Anyway if you figure a way to control it please share ??? gary

Jane - I just planted this in the spring, so only about 6-8 months old. I have trimmed off a few pieces here and there, but it hasn't been too aggressive... yet. I'm thinking about just cutting it back to the ground in the spring if it gets out of control.

Gary - when I bought it, I was just taken in by the pretty flowers and didn't know that cats didn't like the red ones very much. Ignorance is bliss, I guess. That was before I knew about GardenWeb, so I'm more careful these days. I'm letting it twine around my deck railing, so I suppose it gets a chance to get long before it's a problem, so maybe that's why I got a few flowers? Since those three blooms, I've only seen one more, so it doesn't bloom that much.

Does Roundup kill it if you want it out? Now I'm a little nervous....

Hi All

I planted a Lady Margaret passion flower last spring, it grew so quick! it was pretty and full of flowers, did not stay that way, soon it was furiously running away on the other side of the neighbors fence and on the lawn, it was also decimated by butterflies at one point. This fall I took it out and made my life easier.:) you just pull it out. I still have other well behaved butterfly plants.

My other side neighbor has a red passion flower, sometimes I see a red bloom, not very often and is also getting very big but it is by the trail so is fine, have not seen butterflies there....

My passion flower last spring

Silvia

Thanks, Silvia - your passion flower is beautiful and so full! As far as the red one, as long as I can take it out if/when I need to, I'm fine with it for now. Next spring, I'm going to have to plant one for the caterpillars though!

Ibis

Thanks for all the info. I think I will pull it out. Its enormous and I don't know where to begin. It has grown up a Guava Tree and has pulled the branches down to the ground. It has covered over 50ft of my fence. Not a single bloom and I'm not liking what I'm seeing. The label said 'passion fruit vine.' No specific name. Its scary how fast it grows.

Jane

Jane

i suppose if my new neighbors think they own the house as well as the yard I'll have to remove mine also lol

Since there are over a 1000 varieties there must be at least 1 that flowers at a small size ,doesn't try to eat the neighborhood ?? They are such fantastic flowers I really don't care about the color or fruiting just large flowers , and reasonable growth. I asked for suggestions on the Passiflora forum just for fun lol At least it might give some families to research??? gary

I think I'd deal with it if I got flowers. Not a single one. Today I looked for any butterfly eggs or even eaten leaves. None!

Notice the tree on the left. That tree is covered with the vine and is pulling its branches down to the ground. It is my tree, but the vine apparently climbed my fence and is crawling all over the neighbors yard.

This gives you an idea of my fence. Couldn't see it in the other photos. Totally taken over by this vine.

So what do you think? Should I try to kill it? I would think in 8 months it should have flowered. Don't be fooled by the Mexican Petunias in the photo. They have been just about destroyed by the vine. I keep cutting the tendrils off them, but I'm getting tired. I'm worried it will pull my whole fence down.

Jane

WOW

You're not kidding !! Makes mine look tame by comparison lol. Mine grows in a straight line rather scant and prefers to climb. If I prune off the climbers it will abort the stem and start in another direction but never horizontal unless I spread them by hand . It never flowered at all until it climbed a cabbage palm at the top it flowers continuously and even occasionally on the fence now. have noted that if I trim the end of the vine it will abort the buds . No idea which type but flowers are highly reflexed scarlet. Looks nothing like Ibis pic exept the form is passiflora.

In your case you probably don't have much choice but to remove it?? It's not only growing up and out and the foliage is very dense.

If my new neighbors complain i'm going to remove it . I'm not particularly fond of the fruit but I love the complex flowers!! I used to have some purple and some very small pink ones but they were crowded out by the red .

Think I'd clip the main stem and allow it to die down should be a LOT easier to remove?? Good luck gary

Wow is right! Jane, mine hasn't shown that much growth, not even close, in the 8 months it's been in the ground. I wonder if it's teasing me... I'll wake up one day and it will have eaten the back deck! Again, I really don't know what kind of passion flower it is. The flower "looks" like Lady Margaret, but this is the first time I've grown any kind of passion flower so I really don't know. This is what it looks like when you walk onto the deck -

This is where I planted it, so looking at the deck from the yard -

My leaves are not the pretty dark green of yours, Jane, but mine is under the shade of an elm tree. They're also more frail looking than yours - mine looks too wimpy to go anywhere right now.

Gary, if you get any good suggestions from the passion flower forum, please do share. I'd love to have more of these, as long as I don't have to worry about overly aggressive growth.

Thank you both for your discussion, I'm learning a lot!

Thanks all. I've decided its got to go. Its all over the place and grows faster than grass! What a job this will be. I'm waiting for cooler weather.

Jane

Ibis

Got one responce suggested Inspiration <Temptation, and Byron beauty'

All hybrids but didn't mention which family.

So far my new neighbors have not even mowed the grass let alone any pruning. Maybe I lucked out and be allowed to leave it . I'm not removing until they complain !! gary

Gary, lol! My vine is pulling the branches off the tree.

Jane