I'm hoping my Passion flower has revived itself

IbKaz · #1 (**permalink**) 06-06-2009, 09:58 PM

I planted a passion flower 4 years ago, I thought it was slow to grow at first, but then suddenly thrived and was beautiful, I made tressel for it to grow around. Last year it completly died and was just a mass of dead brittle branches. I had never cut it back previous years. I also never know it to loose all its leaves before?

I eventually cut it back to ground thinking maybe it was just a plant that just lives a few years.

Yesterday whilst weeding in this area I think it could be shooting back ( I really hope so) I can not quite tell from its leaves yet if it is my passion flower.

So could of my passion flower died, but some how roots have kept growing and its revived itself after a year of nothing?

oh also my neighbour fencing had collaped on part of my plant during windy weather. I had thought this is what killed it or maybe them putting some solution down which seeped into my garden

KeenTeen17 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-06-2009, 10:13 PM

Sometimes it takes a plant a bit of time to recover after something like weed killer. Nice to hear its coming back up

agrumpycow · #3 (**permalink**) 06-06-2009, 10:18 PM

Ours dies down to dead brittle branches each year, as you described. Each spring just as new leaves are started to shoot I cut it right back leaving only the main stem with the little shoots. By summer it's a mass of green leaves & buds.
Maybe by cutting it back you've given it a new lease of life

ron1863 · #4 (**permalink**) 06-06-2009, 10:21 PM

We have had our Passion plant for 5 years now and every Summer I think it has died but it always seems to send out new shoots around mid June up here in Scotland and it flowers in December.

Kayleigh · #5 (**permalink**) 06-06-2009, 10:33 PM

In areas where there is frost they shed leaves in winter in sheltered spots they keep the leaves all year round....
They also root easy I think they self seed....

IbKaz · #6 (**permalink**) 06-06-2009, 10:44 PM

Thankyou all, TBH I only been interested in gardening the last few years ( case of having to after taking over my parents house which has huge garden, and it wont take care of itself hey! so each season I'm learning about plants.. Hence never taking much notice of when/if what plants I have had died back previous.

Infact I will be uploading a pic of a flower to be ID when it flowers in next few weeks (it is a plant my father GRHS. had grown from seed when he came across it whist rambling, he went back when it seeded and grew it never knowing its name)

I will keep you posted.. will be an

if these shoots turn out to be weeds, but fingers crossed.

Hedera · #7 (**permalink**) 07-06-2009, 02:41 PM

Passion flowers are quite hardy, and if it shoots out from the base it will rejuvenate in no time. If you had fruits, they will have seeds inside which germinate after the fruity part has rotted away or birds eaten it. The seeds grow very well, but the leaves are quite different at first, rounded and lighter green so you may not recognise them. I've about a hundred young plants here which self-set!