A question about passion flowers
Marksw76
Posts: 18
Hi all
I got a load of passion flowers (and Aldi special) a few weeks ago. I've planted them in tubs with compost covered in stones, delicately tied to a stick of bamboo and they are going great, very well in fact.
Problem is the bamboo was only a bit of a 'nursery' option until they got a bit bigger and they have grown much much quicker than I thought and have kind of got a bit overly attached to their bamboo sticks.
Subsequently they are growing like bloody bean stalks in a 'jack and the beanstalk' type style they just keep going up up up! I want them to be moveable around the garden so i wanted to get those wigwam type things for them to climb around but I'm afraid to start untying them in case I damage them, so i have a few questions:
a) Can i put the wigwams around them now, forceably separate them from their bamboo and train them to use the wigwams instead, without killing them?
b) Do they survive a winter outside, what preparations to I need to make?
They are of the Caerulea variety
Thanks again for your help in advance
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You'd have to work hard to kill one, that's for sure.
I'd go with the tee pee ( wigams are round
) option. It's late in the season now so I'd just let it do its own thing and clamber where it wants to grow.
Next Spring you can be a bit more organised with it , regarding training.
They're indestructible in my experience. Don't let one out of its container. I planted one in the ground and it turned into the biggest bully of a plant I've known (except non-clumping bamboo, obviously). I ended up digging it out. Or thought I had. I was still digging up runners two years later.