Re: Crete
Janet wrote:
>You are right, P.Edulis would be a very strange omission. However, while all
>the flowering Passifloras go from strength to strength, P.edulis gets caught
>by our traditional 'one night at 0C' every winter and dies back to the
>ground. it is looking good now though and we are as ever optimistic that we
>may eventually get some fruit.
You know, it is hearing things like this that remind me just how
unpredictable and fascinating gardening can be. I grew P. edulis at
my old house where it endured a week of minus 3C nights with 2C days
and reacted by merely dropping its leaves. Admittedly most of it was
growing against a south facing wall, but a good portion of the plant
also grew on the trellis at the top where it was fully exposed to all
of the elements.
The moment warmer weather arrived, new shoots sprang from almost every
node and the following summer, it produced a bumper crop. Thankfully
summer lasted well into the autumn that year (1986) and nearly all of
the fruit ripened. I got over a year's supply of frozen pulp out of
that plant and both my mother and youngest sister had a field day
making the world's best pavlovas!
Dave Poole
TORQUAY UK
