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05.03.08 ::Fruity
Pebbles
The Lantana is just starting to bloom...seems like it's getting a late start this year?
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05.18.05 ::
Butterfly
Favorite
Lantana
is a sprawling bushy plant. I have found them scattered about in odd
places in the garden and
around some trees. I would like to move them all into one
location, but I have not had
success in digging them up and having the plant live after being
transplanted.
The
blooms are very pretty little flowers and I have a variety of colors. In
the winter they die back and leave woody white stems (see
image below
on this page). This year I pruned the stems back
to see if I can train it to be more
upright and bushy rather than
like a vine that spreads along the
ground.
I
have documented one of my plants as it sprouted and flowered so
that you can see how they develop into a blooming plant....
Early
spring, the leaf mulch and garden debris has been cleared away. You can
see the plant just beginning to get small leaves developing randomly
along the stems and at the crown.
The
leaves develop fast and by late spring the plant is looking "bushy".
The stems will continue to put out new shoots and leaves with the limbs
getting longer and sprawling out over the summer.
By
early summer there are flowers blooming. They will continue to bloom
heavily until the hottest part of the summer. They pick up their
blooming again in fall as temperatures cool down.
