Bushel and Berry Poppin' Passion is a compact passion fruit vine bred specifically for home gardeners who want tropical abundance in tight spaces. This Passiflora incarnata hybrid, also sold as 'Wellington 101,' grows just 3, 5 feet tall when trellised, making it equally at home in a small garden bed or container on a patio. The vine rewards you with showy, exotic purple blooms throughout summer (June through August) followed by refreshingly sweet, slightly zesty purple fruit. Hardy in zones 9, 11, it thrives in full sun and produces fruit roughly 60, 80 days after pollination, delivering genuine tropical flavor without requiring a greenhouse.
Full Sun
Moderate
9-11
60in H x ?in W
—
High
Hover over chart points for details
This vine was engineered from the ground up for gardeners working with limited space, a deliberate departure from sprawling passion fruit varieties that demand acreage. The combination of compact growth habit, ornamental flowers that bloom all summer, and genuinely flavorful purple fruit means you're not choosing between beauty and productivity. It performs equally well climbing a modest trellis in the ground or thriving in a large container, giving you flexibility most vines simply don't offer. The sweet-tart fruit flavor with hints of zest sets this hybrid apart from less refined varieties.
The purple fruit is eaten fresh, either by cutting the vine-ripened fruit in half and scooping the pulp directly into your mouth, or by harvesting them for use in beverages, desserts, and culinary preparations. Home gardeners prize these vines for both ornamental and edible returns, using them to create living privacy screens or specimen plantings on patios while harvesting fruit throughout the growing season.
No timeline data available yet for this variety.
Transplant established vines outdoors after the last frost date in your region, when soil has warmed to at least 50°F. Space individual plants 3, 4 feet apart if planting multiples, leaving room for their mature 3, 5 foot spread. Install a sturdy trellis before planting to avoid damaging roots later.
Harvest fruit when the skin develops a deep purple color and yields slightly to gentle pressure. The fruit will detach easily from the vine when fully ripe. Expect harvest roughly 60, 80 days after flowering occurs during summer months (typically late July through September in suitable climates). Fruit that drops naturally to the ground is fully mature and ready to eat immediately.
Minimal pruning is needed for this compact cultivar. Remove any dead or diseased growth in early spring, and lightly shape the vine to fit your trellis framework. Unlike vigorous passion fruit varieties, Bushel and Berry Poppin' Passion naturally maintains a manageable size, so heavy pruning will reduce flowering and fruit production.
Enter your ZIP code to see a personalized growing calendar for this plant.
“Bushel and Berry Poppin' Passion carries the breeding pedigree of 'Wellington 101,' a cultivar developed with contemporary home gardeners in mind. Rather than inheriting the aggressive growth habit of wild passion vines, this hybrid was selected for restrained size without sacrificing flowering abundance or fruit quality. The deliberate compact form signals careful selection work aimed at solving a real problem: how to grow passion fruit when you don't have room for a 20-foot vine.”