Lantana - Dave Bradshaw

If youve had trouble with this hot and dry summer things just wilting under the glaring sun consider lantana. You know these things are often killed completely in the winter time they are also hardy varieties that have been selected, mozel and I think homestead is one are over winter but just consider this whole thing grew out from soil line level just this summer and it has been quite a stress. What I like about this is that this one happens to be yellow and orange as the flower start to bloom they are a lighter yellow and gold then orange some are combinations of pink & cream, orange and gold, lavender.. so theres quite a variety and all of them tend to change colors the new nhest flowers are lighter then they deepen in color with age. They are relatively pest free I mean maintenance free. Cut them back if they are hardy over winter you can cut them back right to the ground over early spring and they just put our a plush of growth. And they just bloom continuously then for the rest of the summer until the frost gets them not many berries on now but the seeds produces turn nice purple blue almost look like little black pearls so consider lantana its one of our hardiest tender perennials and some of them are hardy over winter.

» View the original video «

YouTube | January 12, 2009

Tags:. .perennials. .wilting. .lavender. .homestead. .bradshaw