Red Lantana
Plants produce clusters of golden yellow, orange and red flowers that
deepen to all red as the blossoms mature. Grown for its showy flowers and
fragrant foliage, lantana makes an attractive addition to shrub groupings,
mixed borders and oceanfront landscapes. Colorful flower clusters have long
made lantana plants a favorite for flower beds and borders. Crowds of colorful
butterflies will flock to your garden when you grow lantana. This super
productive plant puts out a nonstop supply of bright, nectar-rich flowers all
summer long. Lantana loves hot, sunny weather and is tolerant of both drought
and humid conditions. Use lantana in landscape beds or in pots and planters
packed with other sun-loving bloomers. In frost-Fast regions, lantana forms a
low shrub that can grow 2 to 3 feet tall. In the North, use lantana as an
annual flower. It is an upright frost-tender shrub that grows 3-6’ tall.
Container plants can be trained as standards. Easily grown as bedding plants in
average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Tolerates poor soils.
Lantana is also deer and rabbit resistant. It is native to the Central and
South America. It is an upright frost-tender shrub that grows 3-6’ tall.
The elliptic
medium green leaves are up to 8 cm (3 inch) long and 4cm (1.5 inch) wide,
rough-surfaced and coarse-textured. Leaves have slightly toothed edges, have
1cm (0.4 inch) long stalks and appear in opposite pairs or whorls of three. The
flowering season lasts from late spring to middle autumn. Round 5cm (2 inch)
wide flower heads are produced from the leaf axils on 5cm (2 inch) stalks. Each
head consists of densely packed, tubular flowers. Individual flowers open
successively, in rows starting from the outside of the circle. Whatever their
color, it changes (usually darkening) as they age. Thus a single flower head
can contain blooms of two or three related colors – for instance, yellow,
orange and reddish. There are a number of named forms with primarily white,
yellow, orange, pink or red flowers. Hardiness zones 8-11.
Growing Instructions
Lantana is
easiest to grow from seed when you keep the soil consistently moist and at a
steady temperature between 70 and 75 F. (21-24 C.) day and night. A good way to
maintain the moisture is to place the pots in a plastic bag and seal the bag.
While the pots are in the bag, keep them away from direct sunlight. Check the
pots often and remove the bag as soon as the seedlings emerge. The seeds may
take a month or more to germinate.
1. Soak the
seed in water for 24 hours.
2. Prepare a
mixture of half potting soil and half sand, perlite or vermiculite. Water the
mixture so that it is moist but not wet.
3. Put the
seeds on the soil.
4. Cover the
seeds with a thin layer of soil.
5. Water the
seeds.
6. Place the
pots in an area with warm temperatures in full sun or part shade.
7. When the
seedlings are a few inches tall, they can be transplanted.
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