Lantana and Flashy Coleus

[ohiorganic]

I bought 6 really beautiful deep red/orange/yellow lantana for a buck a pot at the farmers market today plus a flashy coleus. The coleus and 3 lantana will go into an old iron cauldron (has a big hole in the bottom) that already has snapdragons and some red flower. The other two will go into a hanging basket, I believe with some amazing blue convalousa (aka morning glory but this is better looking than any morning glory I have seen). One lantana I sold to a friend who dropped by who las year introduced me to the flowering plant.

All of these flowers will go on the porch of our farm store to brighten things up

[bluelacedredhead]

Sounds like a lovely arrangement. I'm not familiar with Lantana, but I'll look it up later.

Last year I put a two tone geranium in the centre of a 12" pot, surrounded it with coleus and added 3 or 4 white snaps per pot (made 2 the same). The geraniums are blooming again right now, and have bloomed off and on all winter long in my westerly bay window. The snaps even bloomed for a while back in March/April.

You could probably do the same when summer is over and transplant them to a good sized pot to add some colour to your windows inside the house during those cold, dreary winter days.. I was sooo thrilled to have the snapdragons bloom in winter, especially after being told by some coworkers that they are difficult to keep going in pots.

[lavandulagirl]

Ohiorganic - that sounds really pretty! I love the way Lantana looks, and combining it with a blue like that morning glory you mentioned is probably stunning! Post a pic if you get the chance.

Blue - I have never understood people's difficulty with snapdragons. I've found that even in containers they're very forgiving. Also, I was walking down the drive today, to an area that I'm not covering in any more gravel, and has gotten a little overgrown. What was growing in the middle of the old gravel but a bright lemon yellow snapdragon!!! Weird, as I haven't ever planted yellow snapdragons here. I'm sure it's probably a throw back seed from some hybrid color I had last year, although they were all pink, if I remember correctly. They must be pretty tough, if they're willing to grow up in the rocks on an area we regularly park on!

[bluelacedredhead]

Is it really small? There are wild ones here that are about a third of the size of a cultivated variety, and they are yellow..

[lavandulagirl]

Do you mean was the stem short? Or do you mean were the blooms themselves small? Or both? The blossoms were pretty good sized, actually, but the stem was a little shorter than the ones I've bought in a pony pak.

[bluelacedredhead]

Blossoms are small, so we can't be talking about the same thing?

[flowerpower]

LG, the wild one has a very small flower. I let it grow in one area. I like it

[lavandulagirl]

I think this must have just been a wayward seed, then, because these blossoms were definitely as big, if not bigger, than the last snaps I bought at the store.