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| Orchid Zeschia Lynn (Dendrobium var) |
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After years of work to clone this superior dwarf Dendrobium Orchid, we can now offer you blooming sized plants in 3" pots. Zeschia Lynn will give your customers months of pleasure because it starts blooming in summer and can continue to bloom up to nine months. Best of all, it re-blooms on old growth! Flowers are beautiful light purple. Available in limited quantities.
Cultural Info:
- Pot size: 3", 4" 6"
- PPP: 1 per pot
- Finish time: 8 to 12 weeks for most blooming sized plants
- Light levels: 1500 to 2000 fc
- Minimum Temp: 55 F
- Fertilizer: 180 ppm N
- Water: Moderately moist
- Bloom period: Winter through each summer
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| Cigar Vine (Manetia luteo-rubra) |
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Fascinating yellow and orange tipped flowers adorn the delicate twining stems of these vines. Manetia can be wrapped on circular wreaths in 6" pots, or can be grown on trellises in 8 to 12" pots. Flowering begins about November, when the days are short. It continues to bloom through May or June.
Cultural Info:
- Pot size: 8 to 12"
- PPP: 2 liners in a 6" pot with a wire wreath
- Finish Time: 12 weeks
- Light levels: 2000 to 3000 fc
- Minimum Temp.: 55F
- Water: Evenly moist
- Fertilizer: 240 ppm N
- Bloom period: Winter through each summer
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| Chenille Tree (Acalypha hispida) |
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This is a stunning specimen plant for the patio. Its crimson, foot long sterile flowers make a bold impact against the emerald green leaves. Stand back, this plant grows fast. One liner in a 8" pot will make a blooming shrub in just a few months time. Never fails to draw comment.
Cultural Info
- Pot Size. 8, 12"
- PPP: 1 plug per 8" pot.
Finish time: 16-20 weeks.
- Light levels: 1500 fc
- Minimum Temp.: 55 F
- Bloom period: All year.
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| African Azalea (Ruttya fruticosa) |
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While not related to azaleas, this African plant has a heavy flowering habit and long anthers, which gives an azalea-like appearance when it blooms. And bloom it does. Ruttya never stops blooming all year, making it an ideal patio container plant. They also tolerate a wide range of soil pH. Large spotted 1" flowers are borne in terminal clusters. Hummingbirds use the nectar filled floral tubes as feeding stations. These flowers actually look like small hummingbirds when viewed from the side.
Cultural Info
- Pot Size: 6, 8"
- PPP: 1 plug per 6" pot, 2,-3 plus per 8" pot.
- Finish time: 12 weeks.
- Light levels: 1500-4000 fc
- Minimum Temp.: 55 F
- Bloom period: All year.
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| Panama Rose (Rondeletia splendens) |
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This plant is loved for the intense color of the rose pink flowers which cover this low spreading plant all year. From Panama, this plant loves heat. Pinch often, and it will reward you with a continuous display of flowers. Moved inside the house in the winter, it will continue to bloom. Rondeletia can be used as a medium sized component plant in combination planters.
Cultural Info.
- Pot Size:6"
- PPP: 3
- Finish time: 8 weeks.
- Light levels: 1500 - 2000 fc
- Minimum Temp.: 50 F
- Bloom period: All year.
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| Mexican Flame Vine (Senecio confusus) |
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Senecio confusus. Mexican Flame Vine. The neon color of these flowers stops traffic. High visual impact, and easy to grow. These are fast growing vines that prefer full sun to bloom well. These evergreen tender vines bloom non-stop all summer, making them great plants for the patio on a trellis.
Cultural Info
- Pot Size. 8", 12"
- PPP: 1 plug per 6" pot, 3-4 plugs per 8" pot.
- Finish time: 8 weeks.
- Light levels: 45000-5500 fc
- Minimum Temp: 50 F
- Bloom period: Summer.
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