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Graffiti® Red Velvet Star Flower

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Weight:
1.00 LBS
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14 inches
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18 inches
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Full Sun, Partial Shade
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Pentas lanceolata 'Graffiti Red Velvet'
Attracts:
Pollinators, Butterflies, Birds
Bloom Time:
Late Spring to Early Fall
Evergreen or Deciduous:
Evergreen
Genus Name:
Pentas
Family Name:
Star Flower
Flower Color:
Red
Foliage Color:
Green
Growth Rate:
Fast
Hardiness Zone:
8b
Landscape Uses:
Massing, Garden, Groundcover, Container
Mature Height:
14 inches
Mature Width:
18 inches
Prune Time:
Can Prune At Anytime
Light Needs:
Full Sun, Partial Shade
Water Needs:
Average to Moist
_callout-4|Light Needs:
Full Sun, Partial Shade
_callout-25|Foliage Color:
Green
_callout-26|Flower Color:
Red
_callout-27|Bloom Time:
Late Spring to Early Fall
_callout-28|Attracts:
Pollinators, Butterflies, Birds
_callout-17|Landscape Uses:
Massing, Garden, Groundcover, Container

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Product Overview

Pentas lanceolata 'Graffiti Red Velvet'
An outstanding series presenting dense, tight flower clusters, ensuring maximum color; extremely uniform growth habit; excellent for containers, gardens or borders

Graffiti® Red Velvet Star Flower is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other garden plants with finer foliage.

This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and can be pruned at anytime. It is a good choice for attracting bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to your yard. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration:

  • Insects
Graffiti®: Red Velvet Star Flower is recommended for the following landscape applications:
  • Mass Planting
  • General Garden Use
  • Groundcover
  • Container Planting

Features

Graffiti® Red Velvet Star Flower features showy corymbs of red star-shaped flowers with white eyes at the ends of the stems from late spring to early fall. Its large textured pointy leaves remain forest green in color throughout the year. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Planting & Growing

Graffiti® Red Velvet Star Flower will grow to be about 14 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 18 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 15 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 5 years.

This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in rich soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It can be propagated by cuttings; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

Graffiti® Red Velvet Star Flower is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers against which the larger thriller plants stand out. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.

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