I adore the Gulf Fritillary butterflies! My neighbors had 2 passion vines on the wood lattice topper on our shared wall. Both ornamental, no fruit. One was the classic purple flower and the other was a red flower that was more bell shaped and produced nectar that meant it was always full of ants. Well we always saw butterflies flitting about but never caterpillars. I think the ants ate them as soon as they hatched. Well the lattice was rotten and new neighbors moved in who sweetly asked if it was OK to remove it. We were more than happy since we wanted to replace wood with steel topper. But then I seriously missed the butterflies. I saw zero for a year. I missed them so much I planted a passion vine on the shared wall of the other neighbors. Just the purple flower that doesn’t have nectar so it won’t attract ants. Well for the first time in a year, I see not only butterflies but larva! I plan to cut it back to the “trunk“ each winter so it doesn’t get out of control this time. This vine is incredibly vigorous and could completely cover a carport if you let it. I don’t care about the flowers which are always there or the look of the vine, which is always green with chew holes, but my heart sings when every day I sit in the patio surrounded by the fluttering of beautiful amber butterflies. Usually 2 or 3 but sometimes 7 or 8 as I also provide nectar flowers for them. For me, the whole point of the vine is the butterflies.

No. Would be nice if one could but it just does not work. Most passion flowers are one day blooms. A very few varieties have blooms that last more than one day. Patsy

Since incarnata doesn't maintain a persistent stem (typically goes dormant), I doubt it was the rootstock (I could be wrong of course...I hadn't ever encountered a grafted passionfruit before, they're usually easy on own root from cuttings).

Hi all, I have a Passion Flower called 'Victoria' which I bought a few years ago, was flowering last year, but since last winter it's dropped all of it's leaves, as you can see from the photo the stems are still green so it's still alive. I did try to plant it in new soil in the hope it would spring back into life, but no luck yet. It does reside in a shady part of the patio. Can anyone tell me why it's laying dormant? As I thought these were supposed to be evergreen, any advice?