Passion flower question

[Notmyyearthisyear]

Just planted one against my garage… then read on another thread that they are a nightmare 🤷‍♀️
anyone knows why? Or if it’s even true? Any advice appreciated!

Following as ndn gave us one. Planning to train over an arch

We have them all over the garden they are stunning but a total mare they grow over everything are knotty and also even over apple tree it take a week to get that one out
Train it and trim it or it will go insane

Aaa that’s useful to know… mine is just a baby looking pretty innocent so far 😂

Until it's a teenager pita !!!

They are considered nuisance plants as they are fast growing, tend to sucker and tough.

My mum's NDN grew one and it ended up forcing its way into my mum's house through the living room wall - it actually came up between the plaster and the skirting board...

You will need to cut it back regularly to keep it under control. The flowers are beautiful and attractive to pollinators without a doubt, but it's quite hard work.

I cannot keep the darn things alive in my garden.

Really enjoying the accounts of these ravaging passionflowers as I had one at my last house that never amounted to much. Have just planted a new one in my new garden and am hoping it will go bonkers.

Ours has managed to sneak up the tree on the other side of the fence without us noticing, so now our next door neighbour's holly tree is covered in passion flowers.

i grew some from seed, nursed them over the winter on my window sill, 5 plants survived. i couldn’t give them away so i’ve planted all 5 . one is going up over the log store, 3 up rather bare trees and one is in a pot still. i had no idea that they are a nightmare !

They are a nightmare. They send runners out so we've got it coming up in the lawn. They are very robust and swamp other climbers like honeysuckle, clematis etc

Oh dear. Mine went in around three weeks ago (quite a well established plant, healthy looking) and doesn’t seem to have grown at all nor attached to the trelice. A climbing rose planted at the same time has grown a lot!

I planted mine last year as a little spindley thing.
This year it has covered my arch with runners everywhere and I've trained some to grow along my fence and it has covered three panels already and still going. I swear it grows an inch or more a day! It's also still flowering and the runners all have buds.

Excuse the washing!
I have spotted a passion fruit on the arch.
It all needs a good cutting back