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.

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[mrethnic]

The plant can be toxic, too. It was the only thing that would grow in the goat pen when I was a boy. They are too smart to eat it.

[picatsoforfma]

They are great for attracting butterflies. Can have up to 30+ on the plant at a time where we live.

[gewooneerlijk]

lantana looks like buddleja and verbena but they looks better than the other plants

[zuditaka]

We eat those black pearls as wild food, in Australia. Quite sweet. But the green ones, like green tomatoes, can be toxic.

[maricopaapt14]

My lantana were planted in june, and are similar, although they are tending to spread toward the ground and not vertical.

[jeepman65]

We have some lantana by our front light post and water them everyday. If you miss a day they wilt badly.Not sure why they wilt so bad. The ones by the house that only get half a day of direct sunlight are doing great though.

[rolipoli]

wow, i dont imagined that lantana can grow to much!