Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Lesley Jay** · #1 (**permalink**) 26-08-2007, 11:46 AM

Yes!!!!!! Yes!!!!!!!

At long last I have a flower!!! Yes!!! On my passionflower!!! Yes!!!!!

(Just off to do a lap around the garden)

TPeers · #2 (**permalink**) 26-08-2007, 12:09 PM

Lovely!

And is it the classic cream and purple or one of the fancier red ones?

Terry

**Lesley Jay** · #3 (**permalink**) 26-08-2007, 08:08 PM

The classic cream and purple passionflower Terry. I fell in love with them when I was young helping out at a market garden where they had an enormous passionflower plant growing inside across the top of the big greenhouse roof. It was spectacular.

jlottie · #4 (**permalink**) 26-08-2007, 10:04 PM

Thats brilliant news Lesley

I did try to grow some red ones from seeds but they didn't survive the winter

Sebbster · #5 (**permalink**) 28-08-2007, 10:52 PM

Lesley, next year you will have hundreds,enjoy

Has it fruited ?

**Lesley Jay** · #6 (**permalink**) 28-08-2007, 11:19 PM

Has it fruited? No Sebbster just one flower and I think another bud!

Sebbster · #7 (**permalink**) 29-08-2007, 09:30 AM

I dont have one right now but grew a large one in London a few years ago at my house down there.

It will bear fruits later in the year, I believe they are inedible but they do look nice....

**Lesley Jay** · #8 (**permalink**) 29-08-2007, 10:24 AM

I am happy with the flowers. I love them and there are now two buds. If only we could have some nice warm sunny weather to help them open.

herbyajh · #9 (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 10:34 AM

I always wanted a Passion Flower in the garden, I planted and nurtured one which died without flowering. Now I have the most enormous and brilliant display which has grown over the fence from next door!

seaspud · #10 (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 10:43 AM

I always found them too scruffy and rampant.
Well done lesley Jay, you must be so proud.

Nick the Grief · #11 (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 09:56 PM

Hope you didn't take your shirt off LJ

Satisfying isn't it

**Lesley Jay** · #12 (**permalink**) 09-09-2007, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick the Grief

Hope you didn't take your shirt off LJ

T shirt over the head Nick - did the job properly!!!

Solitary.Bee · #13 (**permalink**) 10-09-2007, 09:27 AM

I thought it was just me ... lots of green growth on Passion Flower, but no flowers, not even buds yet.

**Lesley Jay** · #14 (**permalink**) 10-09-2007, 09:45 AM

Hi Solitary Bee! Welcome to our forum!

Like you there is loads of shiny green growth on my passionflower but after that first flower there have been no more. There are flower buds but they just are not opening - it's so frustrating!!

Sebbster · #15 (**permalink**) 10-09-2007, 11:23 AM

The Passiflora needs so much sun, that could have been a problem this year, particularly if not on a South facing wall. Hope for an Indian Summer

TPeers · #16 (**permalink**) 10-09-2007, 02:59 PM

Ahh.... so if they need sun..... how come mine is covered in flower in a wind tunnel beside the house, in a narrow (6" wide) raised bed that gets little water, on an east facing fence which gets little or no direct light as the house wall is only 6' away?

Give the plants time - as they get older so they flower better. My plant (triffid) is now three years old, trust me they get better with age!

**Lesley Jay** · #17 (**permalink**) 05-10-2007, 09:34 AM

Unbelievably after only one flower on my passion flower plant all summer this morning there are four open! It's October and it's cold - amazing!

Solitary.Bee · #18 (**permalink**) 09-10-2007, 05:44 PM

I live in hope ... still no flowers, and now the leaves are starting to brown. Shame

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