Comments on: Passiflora – Passion Vine – Trellis

By: Penny Schmitt

Penny Schmitt — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:09:21 +0000

Great Silver-spangled Fritillary butterflies LOVE passion flower vine. The ‘worms’ you are talking about might be caterpillars. I had a huge amount of this vine in my back yard when I first moved into my house and actually had rows of chrysalises hanging on the edge of my siding out back!!! The vine does pop up all over the yard now. I just capture a few with trellises and tomato frames and enjoy them growin in a flower bed. The ones that pop up where I don’t want them, I just pull up or mow over.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:57:09 +0000

I need advice and help. My daughter brought my mother a “Passion Vine” several years ago, I live in Yakima WA.; since we live in a cold cllimate, we cut the vine back off the trellis in the fall and store it in a warm area with minimal water for the winter returning it in the spring to the trellis on the patio. It grows like crazy but has never had a bud much less a flower. I have no idea what kind it is or what I need to do to help it along. After I looked on several sites I see we are watering correctly, may want to change up the fertilizer, it is in a 12″ pot. with good drainage.
Thanks for any help,

Sharon

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:56:32 +0000

Hi MaryNell – yes, the butterflies are the Gulf Fritillaries (spelling?) and they only lay their eggs on passionflower vines, the eggs hatch into the orange catapillars which eat the leaves, then start the cocoon process to emerge as the orange butterflies. I have several vines and I love to watch the process. So yes – don’t spray them anymore and look up info on the Gulf Fritillary butterfly….

By: Sarah Castaner

Sarah Castaner — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:35:40 +0000

Marynell,

Yes, those are – will be butterflies– my vine no longer has a leaf on it. One flower tried to grow, but they found it. I just have decided that it is their plant and so be it. The butterflies are beautiful and watching them come out of the cocoons is amazing.

By: Christy

Christy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:39:28 +0000

Marynell, don’t spray your passion vine!! Those are Gulf Frittilary butterflies and caterpillars. Passion Vine is a host plant for those, Zebra Longwings and Julia’s. They will chew on your vine, but it will survive and thrive! They do not eat the flowers. Don’t spray poison, just enjoy your beautiful butterflies!!!

By: bonnie

bonnie — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:19:56 +0000

Do these plants die down each year or just loose thier leaves? I am not sure if I should plant in a pot to take in to winter over or cover the roots with compost to save the plant in winter? Make a difference in where I will plant it.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:25:56 +0000

I planted a passion vine (not really knowing what it was) about a year ago. The flowers are white with purple auxiliary petals. (I planted it to attract the beas.) The large black bees love this plant. This year I have fruit. I didn’t know it was a fruiting variety. Is this fruit edible?

It is planted in my vegetable garden on a west-facing fence where it gets regular water and slow release fertilizer and a sprinkling of alfalfa pellets.

The string beans and passion flower compete for space, neither wins just grow over one another, both are fruiting. It’s really fun to see.

By: Ann Phillips

Ann Phillips — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:54:29 +0000

We had a new Passionflower vine which was thriving, growing like a weed, well drained and in a sunny spot. The weather has been pretty warm for England but there hasn’t been a lot of rain. Suddenly this week, it just withered and died. What happened? any ideas please?

By: Marynell Phillips

Marynell Phillips — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:13:43 +0000

A friend gave me a start of the vine last year but orange catapillars keep infesting it. Orange butterflies flock to it continuously even though it has only bloomed one flower so far. They’re just lighting on the folliage. I have sprayed it twice and it needs it again as several of the worms are eating on it now. Can you tell me what’s happening and should I be destroying these worms in order to save the leaves and buds on my vine. If they are producing more of the beautiful butterflies, I’ve thought about just getting another vine to enjoy for the flowers and keep the other as a butterfly vine if this is truly what is happening.

Thanks for your help in advance!
Marynell

By: JOE OCHOA

JOE OCHOA — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:14:24 +0000

MY NEIGHBOR PLANTED SOME PASSION VINES AND THEY HAVE MIGRATED INTO MY YARD AND GARDEN. IT HAS SMOTHERED AND KILLED MY FIRS AND I NEED TO KNOW HOW I CAN GET RID OF IT. PULLING ROOTS DOES’NT WORK CAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY EVERYWHERE. IS THERE A SPRAY OR SOMETHING I CAN USE TO KILL IT ??

“DESPERATE”