FIND YOUR Passion

I’ve just been standing with a neighbour, Naomi, looking at the remains of her passionfruit vine. It’s a sad sight. What’s left is the unproductive, weedy understock. The productive vine succumbed to a cold snap, but the cold- and disease-tolerant understock, Passiflora caerulea, can’t be halted. She has tried tearing it down and digging it out. The latest weapon is the family’s pet lamb, currently feeding around where the passionfruit understock is growing.

Before the passionfruit died back, it produced buckets of passionfruit, so Naomi is keen to plant another vine, but she says it won’t be a grafted