On 29/10/07 10:24, in article
, "Charlie Pridham"
wrote:

In article ,
says...

"Sacha" wrote in a message:
...... So I do remember clearly the customers who asked us if they could
grow the above Passiflora outdoors. Has anyone brought it through a
winter anywhere in the British Isles AND had a good flowering season
afterwards?
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I couldn't get P. mollissima to survive a winter in my heated conservatory
let alone flower the season afterwards.
I found it a very difficult Passiflora variety.

MikeCT


This grows and flowers in my unheated greenhouse, key to success is low
summer temperatures and dryish roots in winter, However I have just seen
5 year old plant outside at Tregrehane growing on a south wall in a
walled garden, so they will do outside allthough I can only dream of
walls such as that one!

Ah, that's really interesting, Charlie and just what I wondered about. We
grow it here in the bigger greenhouses, where it's kept just frost-free but
can't imagine it surviving outside. We could ask a friend in Salcombe to
try it out for us! We had a friend from Australia here the other day who
was talking about eating the fruits off hers - made us green with envy!
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'