Passiflora caerulea – Blue Passionflower

Passiflora caerulea – Blue Passionflower

2L
€17,00
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Passiflora caerulea – Blue Passionflower
  • Passiflora caerulea – Blue Passionflower
  • Passiflora caerulea – Blue Passionflower
  • Passiflora caerulea – Blue Passionflower
  • Passiflora caerulea – Blue Passionflower
Passiflora caerulea – Blue Passionflower

Passiflora caerulea – Blue Passionflower

€17,00
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Locally grown

Passiflora caerulea is a fast, spectacular climber for pergolas, fences, and sunny walls, flowering big blue flowers throughout the summer in true Mediterranean style.

Each bloom opens for just a day or two, but the vine produces them in such steady succession through summer that the display feels continuous. Up close, the flowers reveal remarkable geometric precision — a radiating halo of thread-like filaments in blue, white and violet, poised above five broad petals and sepals, with the reproductive parts held aloft on a distinctive central column, almost architectural in structure.

The flowers are rich in nectar and pollen, drawing in bees and other pollinators through the height of summer — a nice bonus for anyone gardening with biodiversity in mind.

Why Passiflora caerulea Is Perfect for Balcony Growing

✂️ This is not a shy grower. 

Given good conditions it will happily put on several metres of growth in a season, and can sucker or self-seed in favourable spots. An annual hard prune in late winter keeps it looking tidy, within bounds, and flowering strongly on the resulting fresh growth — so don't be afraid to cut it back hard; it rewards the treatment.
Flower Color: Blue, White

Preferred Soil Type: Well-drained, Humus-rich , Fertile

Sunlight: Partial shade, Full sun

Hardiness Zone: Zone 8: -12°C, Zone 9: -1.1°C to -6.7°C

Growth Habit: Climbing, Upright

Origine: South America

🪴9x9 cm

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🌱 Grown in our nursery
€17,00

🌻Flowering is best with plenty of direct sun.
🦋 Provides nectar, pollen, shelter, and nesting sites.
🦗 The climbing habit creates vertical habitat layers, increasing garden biodiversity.
The fruit/seed heads provide winter food for birds.
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Gardening Tips

Keep soil moist under a thick layer of mulch
🌱 Mulch young plants.
✂️ Prune late winter after 2-3 years of steady growth - it flowers on new wood, so hard pruning won't cost you blooms.
👨‍🌾 Needs a trellis, wire, fence, or wall to climb — give it something to grab onto early.
🪴A south- or west-facing wall is ideal in cooler climates, giving both sun and winter shelter.
The Botany

Passiflora caerulea is a vigorous, semi-evergreen to deciduous climbing vine native to South America (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay).

It climbs by means of curling tendrils and can reach 6–9 m in a single season under good conditions.

The flowers are the star of the show: intricate, saucer-shaped blooms roughly 8–10 cm across, with pale blue-white petals radiating around a striking corona of blue, white, and purple filaments, centered on a prominent stalked ovary and five golden-tipped stamens.

Flowering runs from summer into early autumn, sometimes followed by egg-shaped orange fruits (edible but far less flavorful than P. edulis, the commercial passionfruit).
The Myth

Spanish missionaries in 16th-century South America gave the flower its name, reading it as a living crucifixion scene: the three stigmas as the nails, the five anthers as the wounds of Christ, the fringed corona as the crown of thorns, the ten petals and sepals as the faithful apostles, and the tendrils as the whips used in the Passion.

The plant became known as the "Passion Flower" — passion here referring to the suffering of Christ, not romantic passion.

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