5 New Varieties of LANTANA 🌻 || Summer Color In The Garden || Heat Loving Flowers

Follow along as i chat all about lantana and plant 5 new varieties of lantana in my garden.

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Planting Zone 8a Wylie, Texas

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[stewbox]

Thank you for your consistent postings. I look forward to them almost every morning. Personally, I am excited to see what others are doing in their gardens. Please don’t let the lack of comments discourage you. You are doing a fantastic job. 🌺

[shadedfromreality]

Your pots look majestic behind you...I can't believe how large and lush they already are! Thank you for the lantana updates and I learned about a few new ones. I do love the pollinators visiting them on a daily basis!

[michellepollino]

Love all the lantana plants they are going to look gorgeous in your garden. The purple trailing lantana is perfect in your big containers trailing over. Your containers on your porch are looking stunning.

[susanschellberg]

Your front porch looks so colorful and lush. I'm getting ready to pull out pansies and violas and put in lantana. My back garden is more part sun/shade but lantana still does very well for me. The direct sun, I get, is mid day and afternoon so perhaps that is why they flower so well even without full sun. Have fun with your kids.

[GrettaVanMaanen-pjql]

Can’t wait to see the troughs! And you are sweet!😊

[antonianovoa]

I'm with you! No bit holes in my garden if I can help it, The plant will eventually grow, and I am patient. I will just mulch around it to look neat.

[DSmith]

Howdy 🤠 Fellow N Texas Gardner here. Love lantana! I grow it in a couple different varieties and it gets huge in my south facing garden. My garden takes a beating facing south with full sun and extreme heat all day everyday but my lantana doesn’t skip a beat! I always say it laughs at the sun 😅 Your garden is Beautiful 😍 and it’s my goals 🩷

[kathyley]

I wish I had your energy! You always have really good info. Thank you 😊

[karenmiller]

Love watching your posts! I’m in League City Texas and I know your heat! Trying to learn from you what plants will last in our heat. Thanks for what you do!

[rosemarypurnell]

Looking forward to seeing how the lantana progresses. I have several lantana, but can't remember the specifics on them. They are definitely perennials as I've had them for several years. A couple of purple ones and the rest with orange/yellow flowers. I've also wondered how you could just plop down and sit on the grass without getting attacked by ants. You're lucky. Love your gloves as I have some that look exactly like them and they are great. They wash and wear beautifully (think I got them on Amazon). Yes, kiddos will be out of school soon and know you'll be enjoying some extra time with them.

[wendy]

vinca, aka periwinkles, are fantastic summer bloomers. Some actually have a cascading growth pattern. I've been advised to only purchase the "Cora" strain of vinca as they are improved and do not suffer from dieback like the old fashioned varieties do. Here in my Houston zone 9b area, the vinca have actually reseeded so I have them coming up here and there. I simply dig the small seedlings and move them to where I want them. I never liked periwinkle of years ago but I'm thrilled with this constant blooming Cora variety!😊 Hope this helps.

[nancymaier]

I'm in south central KS 7A zone. I grow Lantana every year to attract butterflies and hummers. I also plant Pentas. 🙂

[cathyversteeg]

Wow! Your porch is bursting with color and life! Gorgeous 😍

[boysrus]

Annual lantana is a go-to full sun summer plant for me too (Atlanta 8a). Deer & rabbits don’t eat it. I’ve never fertilized mine and it always does well. I buy the smallest plants I can find because lantana is a vigorous grower.

[rebeccazody]

Those lantana are going to be so beautiful. I could hear the leaves on the ground crunching. Glad you have drip for those babies.

[gillbrown]

I love Lantana especially the confetti variety, I can only seem to get the purple one here in Australia but I’ll be looking for the confetti ones this year. I find Vinca very good in my garden as we get triple digits too and it does so well and nothing eats it either which is a great bonus. 😊

[BCBRENDA]

Love your channel! I'm in N. FL, I have several Lantanas, but I don't know the variety. My lantanas come back each year on the new growth. Those in the ground n in pots, but they usually come back slow. Once it gets hot they grow like crazy. I notice with my lantanas, with single colors seems to grow faster n spread larger then the multi colors. I clip a few steams put soil on them or put them in a pot n they grow.

They remind me of my azaleas. Allow a piece of the azalea to touch the soil n they grow roots. Cut it off the mother plant n you have a new azalea plant.

[jfrederick]

I have a few of those troughs as veggie beds and they work pretty good for me as wicking beds. Love this channel, so inspiration (I'm up in VT zone5b)

[eyrerosecottage]

I can't even imagine gardening in such a hot climate! You're so dedicated! I live in a much cooler climate, but the days can get very hot and dry in the summer.

[soniab]

I have planted lantana in the front of my garden beds (Texas gold). I have them 18 inches to 2 feet from the edge and every summer several times I have cut them back otherwise they are in the way of grass mowing as they spread. I would suggest planting them at least 3 feet away from the edge to avoid the issue I have had.