Passion Flower advice needed - with pic attached

[Alllisonty]

In September 2024 I viewed the house and garden that I now live in. At that time there was a magnificent display of Passion Flowers across several fence panels.

In Spring of this year I set about pruning everything in my new garden including the Passion Flower. It seems to have not recovered, so presumably I did something wrong and it's produced only a couple of flowers and fruits and no leaves. Looks similar to just after I pruned it.

It's planted in a narrow trough so I'm guessing that can't be helping.

What should I do?

Generally you prune after flowering. I suspect you pruned off all the new growth for last year. Hopefully it will recover next year. I would leave it for now and then feed it once a month from spring next year.

That seems possible and is a much more hopeful explanation than I'd imagined. Thank you.

Have you scratched away any of the bark to see if it is green underneath indicating it is alive? If it is in a trough ( and hasn’t rooted through the base) it will have needed considerable watering to keep it going. It was a very dry spring. I don’t think your pruning would have killed it.