Centradenia

Centradenia_ 'Cascade'

Add charm to your container gardens or to the front of the border with this unusual annual. It bears dark green foliage (which usually takes on orange and red tones in autumn) and attractive rose-color flowers. Its spreading nature and exceptional heat tolerance make it a perfect pick for hanging baskets, where it will bloom until frost. Or try it as an annual groundcover to create a carpet of color in bright, sunny spaces.

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Light:

Sun

Type:

Annual

Height:

1 to 3 feet

Width:

2-3 feet wide

Flower Color:

Pink

Seasonal Features:

Colorful Fall Foliage, Fall Bloom, Spring Bloom, Summer Bloom, Winter Bloom

Special Features:

Good for Containers, Low Maintenance

Zones:

2-11

plant Centradenia with

Ornamental Pepper

Heat up your garden with ornamental peppers! Much like hot peppers you would grow in the veggie garden, ornamental peppers produce colorful little fruits that are round or pointed. But these are so attractive in their own right that they can be grown just for show -- not eating. The peppers are indeed edible, but usually their flavor is lacking compared to peppers grown for the table.Depending on the variety, the peppers appear in shades of white, purple, red, orange, and yellow -- often with multiple colors on the same plant. They like rich, well-drained soil that is evenly moist.Shown above: Calico pepper

Angelonia

Angelonia is also called summer snapdragon, and once you get a good look at it, you'll know why. It has salvia-like flower spires that reach a foot or 2 high, but they're studded with fascinating snapdragon-like flowers with beautiful colorations in purple, white, or pink. It's the perfect plant for adding bright color to hot, sunny spaces. This tough plant blooms all summer long with spirelike spikes of blooms. While all varieties are beautiful, keep an eye out for the sweetly scented selections. While most gardeners treat angelonia as an annual, it is a tough perennial in Zones 9-10. Or, if you have a bright, sunny spot indoors, you can even keep it flowering all winter.

Pentas

Pentas is one of the best butterfly-attracting plants around. It blooms all summer long, even during the hottest weather, with large clusters of starry blooms that attract butterflies by the dozens as well as hummingbirds. The plant grows well in containers and in the ground -- and it can even make a good houseplant if you have enough light. It does best in full sun and moist, well-drained soil. Pentas is grown as an annual in most parts of the country, but it's hardy in Zones 10-11. Plant it outdoors after all danger of frost has passed.

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Centradenia

how to grow Centradenia

Propagation

plant Centradenia with

Ornamental Pepper

Angelonia

Pentas

Grow annuals in the perfect container garden