I absolutely love this plant. I bought it with the idea that it is an annual in my zone, but I'm going to heavily mulch it to try to keep...Read More it. I also plan on keeping seeds from it just in case...
The color of the flowers is outstanding and it hasn't stopped blooming since I put it in the ground. I've fed it twice, watered it when we had dry spells and deadheaded every once in a while. You can't ask for more than this plants gives you.
If you like the blooms, you have to deadhead regularly or else the dead flower heads are the prominent feature on your plant... the folia...Read Morege is too sparse, though prettily fern-like, to compensate for lack of blooms. The blooms don't last long enough, either, so I found myself having to deadhead about every 3/4 days, spending about half an hour to snip off all the small flower heads of 3 plants.
Then all 3 plants died after our rainy season ended!!
To be fair, I probably should have planted them further from the overhang, but my other comments still stand.
I absolutely love this plant. I bought it with the idea that it is an annual in my zone, but I'm going to heavily mulch it to try to keep...Read More
If you like the blooms, you have to deadhead regularly or else the dead flower heads are the prominent feature on your plant... the folia...Read More