Description: 🏮🏮Chinese lanterns can light up a garden with their brilliant blooms and interesting foliage. Its colorful five-petaled flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds. 🦋🐦 Chinese Lantern (Abutilon) is an excellent trailing plant for hanging baskets. Chinese Lantern have stunning foliage in the shape of maple leaves with green and yellow markings. Their unique red-and-yellow lantern-shaped blooms give the plant its name. Abutilon are evergreen perennials in zones 9-10 and can be grown as annuals everywhere else. Chinese Lantern is a naturally big plant. The ideal way to grow a compact basket is to keep it in a cool house in the winter with a temperature of 45 F and bring it to the a warmer house in the spring to flower. This is a process called vernalization and allows you to grow a nice compact plant due to cold temps, which then blooms widely when placed in warmer temps in the spring. Growing tips: PlantingWe do not recommend Chinese Lantern for 4" pots as they would overgrow the pot too quickly. Plant 4-5 starter plants per 10"- 12" basket, and plant them deep so the top of the ellepot is slightly below the soil level in your container. PinchingPinching is recommended due to Chinese Lantern's natural size. Shape the plant by continuing to pinch it back each month. Allow 4 weeks from the last pinch for plants to produce blooms.Pinching is not required on a natural season bloom schedule, but it will make a nicer, shorter, plant. SpacingIf you are looking to grow a big basket, space your hanging baskets wider than normal. 3 foot spacing would be normal for a grower looking to produce an oversized basket. Normal spacing for a stockier plant would be 2 feet. ***Please understand that these are living plants. We try our very best to pack & and ship out the healthy plant as soon as we receive your order. The plant you will receive may be slight different from the photos in the listing since no two plants are the same. Please notify us with photos of package and plants right away if you receive a plant that is damaged more than normal stress of shipping, as stated above.Thank you. Happy gardening, happy life! Carolina Lavender Farm
Price: 5.99 USD
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina
End Time: 2024-09-25T01:40:11.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.49 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Brand: Carolina Lavender
Season of Interest: Fall, Spring, Summer
Type: Vines
Common Name: lantern
Number in Pack: 1
Indoor/Outdoor: Indoor & Outdoor
Features: Flowering
Safety: Child Safe, Pet Safe
