I have trained Passiflora to grow all around the top of the green house. The stems are healthy but the flowers no longer appear. Do I cut it right back or leave them where they are?
Let it overwinter with the growth on as this gives it some protection if theres hard frosts or snow. Then in April when you see new growth starting cut it back to where you want it.
My passiflora is a monster it's spread along my boundary fence and is now covering over 10 metres. Mix of flowers and fruit all summer long. Don't do anything to it apart from some bone meal and compost mulch I live in Northern England and it did not even blink.at the Beast from the East.
It is grown from a huge pot inside the green house which never freezes and it's the all white one. Two more died in another pot as the large leaves of a sikkim cucumber alongside starved it of light.
So it's possibly P. caerulea 'Constance Elliot' .... which should be fairly hardy and fine in a cold greenhouse, providing it gets the conditions it needs.
It should be fairly evergreen, so I would leave it until the spring and then just cut it back and tie it in to fit with where you want it, removing any growth that has been frosted or scorched as you go.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Which passiflora is it? The hardier one or one of the more tender types ?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I live in Northern England and it did not even blink.at the Beast from the East.
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It should be fairly evergreen, so I would leave it until the spring and then just cut it back and tie it in to fit with where you want it, removing any growth that has been frosted or scorched as you go.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.