Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids
( Pentas Hybrid Graffiti Mix)
Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids Origins:
Native to tropical regions of Africa.
This compact low growing selection of an old garden favorite provides a long lasting bloom season perfect for front of the border plantings for our North Florida | Jacksonville | St. Augustine area hot humid summers.
Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids Preferred Exposure:
– Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids will prefer a full sun or partial shade partial sun location but will flower well in areas that only receive a few hours of light a day.
Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids Foliage:
– Deeper green coloring than typical but only slightly, very compact foliage.
Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids Soil Preference / Salt tolerance: Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids is not particular about the components of the soil it is planted in providing they are planted in a well draining location.
– Salt tolerance for Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids is unknown.
Pentas Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids Size Variance:
– Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids is a low growing Penta selection only
reaching 12-15 inches in height and width! This is one of the shortest Penta selections available and is often utilized at subdivision entryways for their ease of care, multitude of blooms and bright color pallet.
Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids Growth Habit:
– Densely foliated plants are well branched and tend to be as wide as they are tall forming a mounded habit. For me in my home garden I think of the Graffiti series as boot height. They grow as tall as they do wide and have a rounded habit.
Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids Growth Rate:
– Fast growing Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids can be expected to reach its full height and width ( 12″ x 12″) in the first season in the North Florida | Jacksonville | St. Augustine area landscape.
Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids Bloom:
– Three inch wide clusters of star shaped tubular blooms in late spring summer and fall. Mix contains both White / Pink / Red / Purple colored blooms. Really very showy blooms.
Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids Water Requirements:
– Although Pentas are a fairly drought tolerant plant selection and very much at home in drier sandy soil gardens in Florida, like the others the Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids will require supplemental irrigation for best blooms and growth.
Butterfly or Bird Attracting:
– Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids will attract butterflies to your gardens
landscape. Hummingbirds will be attracted in particular to the Red selection.
Best Uses For Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids in the North Florida | Jacksonville |
St. Augustine area garden:
– Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids have been a personal favorite of mine through the years, and for good reason. They are a great low maintenance plant selection for loads of booms with almost no maintenance after planting.
– Butterfly and hummingbird attracting flower!
– Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids makes a great companion plant for other perennials in the garden and adds an instant cottage garden feel when planted in any landscape.
– Plant in masses for easy maintenance blooms that make a great flowering display all during the spring summer and fall seasons in the North Florida | Jacksonville | St. Augustine area landscapes.
Care of Pentas Graffiti Mixed Hybrids in the North Florida | Jacksonville |
St. Augustine area landscape:
– Water every day during the establishment period after planting in the garden from a nursery container, once plants have established themselves into the landscape taper water back to just a weekly application if local rainfall levels are low.
– Perennial in central and south Florida this selection of Pentas is most often
planted as an annual and replaced at the end of the season with cool season annuals. If it suits you, leave foliage and roots in place they may , depending on the winter regrow for you in the following season. ( I
would recommend covering the base of the plant with a thick layer of pine straw that you can remove the following spring and trim off dead stalks as new growth appears )
– Fertilize each spring and again in mid summer and fall with a handful of garden compost or a mixture of Milorganite and a slow release poly coated plant food such as Osmocote or Stay Green general purpose plant food
or 10-10-10.
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