I have had this Passion Flower plant for about 4 years now. I bring it in the house over the winter. This winter it went crazy! It took over the whole dining room. This picture is a little dark, but you can see it growing up around, behind and around the blinds. If you look close, you can see a vine going up the wall behind the picture and up to the corner.
It grew up behind the picture and heading around the corner. The kids wanted to see how far it would grow over the winter, so they put tacks up for the vine to cling to. This vine was green, but started to turn brown just in the last couple of weeks. I don’t know why all the leaves turned brown, though. It was only that one vine.
The vine left the blinds and started to grow out into the middle of the dining room. I think it was going for the light fixture. Either that, or it was trying to attach to the kids. lol
In this picture, below, you can see two buds. The top one already closed, but the bottom hadn’t opened yet in this picture. If you look close at the above picture, you can see the buds, also.
The vine went up behind the blinds, and out through the top.
This flower is the bottom bud from above that oped this week. I think they are so beautiful!
After this flower closed, I gave the vine a trimming and moved it outside for the summer. Here it is in it’s new home in the Bible Garden.
Don’t feel to bad for the poor Passion Flower, in a few weeks it will have grown to cover all the supports in the pot, and will attempt to grow over the whole Bible Garden.
We haven’t had any fruit from it yet. I’m still holding out hope, though. We had it for about 3 years before it bloomed for the first time. Maybe the fruit will still come.
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Wow, how amazing!! Very pretty blooms too! Nice to see it got a haircut, make sure to update with pics when it starts taking over again! lol
awesome!!! I love passion flowers…I just picked one up…and got some seeds to sow as well….I wonder how mine will do if i bring it into the greenhouse for the winter?
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That's awesome! I use to hesitate about giving haircuts but I think they feel as good as we do with a fresh haircut. Rejuvenated!