Passiflora

[PaulM]

This passionflower has escaped through the fence from the neighbors' and I wonder which species it is. I haven't had the chance to talk with her yet, but I suppose it's some sort grown as an annual up here in the north. Passiflora incarnata is otherwise quite hardy, isn't it ?

[Ezeiza]

Looks like our native P. caerulea.

[Lesley Cox]

I think so too.  Here are three more. Not in my (currently snow-covered) garden but at a friend's home in the north of the North Island. No frost up there!

P. antioquiensis both the flowers and the fruit form on very long (30cms plus) thin strings which I guess are pedicels? The fruit of this species is the most delicious of any passionfruit. Just wish I could grow it here. The flowers are gorgeous too.

[Ezeiza]

Super, Lesley.

[Onion]

I think the same as Ezeiza and Lesley. Grow the P. caerulea outside since five years. The biggest problem is the rain in the wintermonths.

Lesley grow your friend this species outside?

[David Pilling]

Hi,

Talking of passiflora caerulea, a couple of people around here had good versions of that, and I had some grown from seed, and last Winter killed the lot, and they have not regrown from the ground - what seemed to do it was the sudden change from relatively warm to cold, or maybe the 80mph storm that stripped the leaves a few days previously. Even one of the worst Winters for a long time was not that cold, perhaps -5C or so.

Only one of mine survived and that is supposedly p. incarnata.

As it happens on the Beechgrove garden TV program tonight,  they visited Glenbervie House and they had a spectacular passiflora
antioquiensis, (Red Banana Passion Flower) growing inside the roof of a conservatory as shading.

http://www.thebeechgrovegarden.com/fact_files/Factsheet_20_1.pdf

[Lesley Cox]

Uli, my friend grows P. coccinea in a glasshouse (but very leaky/droughty and no door, mostly just some shade cloth and I think it would grow outside all right. He never gets frost, even a light one). The other two scramble around various trees in his large and wild garden. I also saw P. antioquiensis at HIS friend's house, grown in a large tub in her kitchen and trained along the top of the windows where first the flowers then the fruit hung down on their long thread, like a curtain. It was one of those I ate, and would have liked to have been given more!

[Maggi Young]

As it happens on the Beechgrove garden TV program tonight,  they visited Glenbervie House and they had a spectacular passiflora
antioquiensis, (Red Banana Passion Flower) growing inside the roof of a conservatory as shading.

http://www.thebeechgrovegarden.com/fact_files/Factsheet_20_1.pdf

Looking at the Fact Sheet I see that they have managed to get the  name of the owner of the lovely Glenbervie garden completley wrong. BGT has "Gill McPhee"  when the lady's name is actually  Jill Macphie ..... I find it disrespectful to make a mistake like that..... it's not as though there were not enough "bods" on the team to make proper checks. However, I suppose that with the amount of plant names they get wrong without batting an eyelid, caring about someone's name comes equally far down their list of priorities.

[David Pilling]

phonetically correct... It took a while for it to dawn that Glenbervie is a private garden, it looked so good. I wonder where one gets seeds for 12 foot high delphiniums - probably the same place I get seeds for 6 inch high ones, but you look after them properly.

[Maggi Young]

The Macphies are a wealthy family still able to afford gardeners to chase slugs 
 http://www.macphie.com/history

[angie]

phonetically correct... It took a while for it to dawn that Glenbervie is a private garden, it looked so good. I wonder where one gets seeds for 12 foot high delphiniums - probably the same place I get seeds for 6 inch high ones, but you look after them properly.

It's the amount of rain that they get in that part of the country. Not only that they probably have the best growing soil on Scotland. With all this rain l am fed up cutting grass and cutting back everything. Everything is just getting bigger and bigger a bit like me 

The Macphies are a wealthy family still able to afford gardeners to chase slugs 
 http://www.macphie.com/history

Maggi who needs money. You have one of the best gardeners out there and he doesn't cost you a penny and to think he even cooks meals for you as well 

Angie