Look for these plants
Goldilocks Rocks™ Bidens Bidens ferulifolia
ColorBlaze®Alligator Tears™ Coleus Solenostemon scutellarioides
Bidens and coleus
Goldilocks Rocks™ Bidens Bidens ferulifolia
ColorBlaze®Alligator Tears™ Coleus Solenostemon scutellarioides
I watered the container but did not fertilize it. The bidens is self cleaning, takes full sun or part sun and looks good in this combination. Alligator tears doesn’t need constant pinching and looked full, not leggy in the pot.
It was my honor to trial these plants for Proven Winners last summer. Proven Winners are easy to find in our area. You could imagine my shock when I read the back of the plant label this spring: “BUY THIS! Even Patsy Bell Hobson did not kill it.” I don’t know if this is a regional marketing stategy or a National Campaign. Let me know if you see this tag in your store.
I planted three pots of Alligator tears in the planter under the mail box last summer. The hose rarely made it out that far. I did not add fertilizer.
ColorBlaze® Alligator Tears™ Coleus Solenostemon scutellarioides
Both plants, bidens and the coleus, performed all summer.
Proven Winners
