Sweet Potato Vine - Margarita

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Sweet Potato Vine - Margarita

The Sweet Potato Vine Margarita, 'Ipomoea batatas', a Proven Winners selection, has a trailing habit and traditional velvety, fan shaped leaves that are a bright chartreuse color. They are grown for their distinctive foliage and vigorous growth habit. They grow best when provided with a high light location and relatively warm temperatures. This ornamental plant provides color and interest like no other plant. Margarita looks nice planted with darker foliaged plants. Ornamental Sweet Potato Vines can be used as an annual groundcover or in hanging baskets and pots. For zones 10-11, this plant can also be a perennial. ... details

 

Geranium - Patriot White Fertilize lightly every 2 weeks. They make large, full-sized plants and are very showy in ground beds and containers with their large, colorful white blooms. Pinching of the shoots will promote bushiness Remove spent flowers to enhance flowering. Over fertilization results in excessive foliage and few flowers. These plants have succulent leaves and stems and they are commonly called garden geraniums or zonal geraniums. Geraniums are one of your best choices for use in hanging baskets. They are excellent in containers of all types from small pots to large tubs to window boxes and combine well with other plants such as petunias and ivies. Plant in ordinary well-drained soil. Geraniums are a favorite bedding and container plant and are grown in almost every region of the country.

Sweet Potato Vine - Margarita