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Please help! My Passiflora is poorly.
Location - North Midlands, sheltered corner bed facing South West.
The Passiflora is about two feet from the South facing wall of the house and close to the West facing party fence. Last year we allowed it to have its head. As a result the six foot fence was completely covered for about ten feet. The growth cascaded down our side and the (friendly) neighbour's side and flowered profusely. In fact on our side the growth came out from the fence and completely coverd a generously sized three seater bench. Last year the plant was healthy. It threw up suckers as far away as eight feet from the main plant. Was it happy or trying to escape? Seriously, as has been out habit we cut back the plant to about eighteen inches last autumn and protected it with bubble plastic throughout the winter. Currently the new growth is about fifteen inches tall and growing fast. However we have a number of normal looking shoots but an equal number of shoots with much darker and slightly crumpled leaves. The distant (unwelcome) suckers look healthy. Please, can anyone offer suggestions? What should we do? The plant has not been fed because it has a very extensive root system. I sprayed the shoots with Malathion a couple of days ago. We have a postage stamp garden and we would hate to lose this plant. TIA Peter |
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Please help! My Passiflora is poorly.
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Last year the plant was healthy. It threw up suckers as far away as eight feet from the main plant. Was it happy or trying to escape? Seriously, as has been out habit we cut back the plant to about eighteen inches last autumn and protected it with bubble plastic throughout the winter. Currently the new growth is about fifteen inches tall and growing fast. However we have a number of normal looking shoots but an equal number of shoots with much darker and slightly crumpled leaves. The distant (unwelcome) suckers look healthy. snip We have had a passiflora for 2 years. Last year it grew like mad, about 30', no suckers. This year we had a slight amount of die back, but now it is going mad, new growth and flower buds all over, and no suckers. We have an evergree one that is hardy. Maybe you have a non-hardy one. John In limine sapientiae |
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Please help! My Passiflora is poorly.
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 09:19:00 +0100, John Edgar
wrote: snip Last year the plant was healthy. It threw up suckers as far away as eight feet from the main plant. Was it happy or trying to escape? Seriously, as has been out habit we cut back the plant to about eighteen inches last autumn and protected it with bubble plastic throughout the winter. Currently the new growth is about fifteen inches tall and growing fast. However we have a number of normal looking shoots but an equal number of shoots with much darker and slightly crumpled leaves. The distant (unwelcome) suckers look healthy. snip We have had a passiflora for 2 years. Last year it grew like mad, about 30', no suckers. This year we had a slight amount of die back, but now it is going mad, new growth and flower buds all over, and no suckers. We have an evergree one that is hardy. Maybe you have a non-hardy one. John In limine sapientiae Thank you John, Do I understand that you do not cut back in the late autumn but let natural die-back do the pruning for you? Peter |
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Please help! My Passiflora is poorly.
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 09:19:00 +0100, John Edgar
wrote: snip Last year the plant was healthy. It threw up suckers as far away as eight feet from the main plant. Was it happy or trying to escape? Seriously, as has been out habit we cut back the plant to about eighteen inches last autumn and protected it with bubble plastic throughout the winter. Currently the new growth is about fifteen inches tall and growing fast. However we have a number of normal looking shoots but an equal number of shoots with much darker and slightly crumpled leaves. The distant (unwelcome) suckers look healthy. snip We have had a passiflora for 2 years. Last year it grew like mad, about 30', no suckers. This year we had a slight amount of die back, but now it is going mad, new growth and flower buds all over, and no suckers. We have an evergree one that is hardy. Maybe you have a non-hardy one. John In limine sapientiae Oh! I forgot to ask. In what is wisdom? My latin always was bad and it has not improved since Kennedy's Primer and I parted company sixty years ago. Peter |
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Please help! My Passiflora is poorly.
We have an evergree one that is hardy. Maybe you have a non-hardy one. John In limine sapientiae Thank you John, Do I understand that you do not cut back in the late autumn but let natural die-back do the pruning for you? Peter We didn't cut it back, just left it to over winter. It is an evergreen one and meant to be hardy. John In limine sapientiae |
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Please help! My Passiflora is poorly.
We have an evergree one that is hardy. Maybe you have a non-hardy one. John In limine sapientiae Oh! I forgot to ask. In what is wisdom? My latin always was bad and it has not improved since Kennedy's Primer and I parted company sixty years ago. Peter The gateway or portal. It means something like wisdom is the gateway, or at the gateway is wisdom. John In limine sapientiae |
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Please help! My Passiflora is poorly.
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:14:53 +0100, John Edgar
wrote: We have an evergree one that is hardy.......... In limine sapientiae Oh! I forgot to ask. In what is wisdom?........ The gateway or portal. It means something like wisdom is the gateway, or at the gateway is wisdom. John In limine sapientiae Thank you John. I do not do credit to my father who gained a first in classics. Peter |
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