Sweet Caroline Bewitched After Midnight™ Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas

4.25” POT 

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Exposure

• Part Sun to Sun

Flower Season

• Spring
• Summer
• Fall

Mature Size

Height: 10" - 16"

Spread: 18" - 2'6"

Plant is not sold online.

• DETAILS

  FEATURES

  Great foliage component plant in combinations; excellent heat tolerance and good vigor.

  Award Winner

  Foliage Interest

  Heat Tolerant

  Deadheading Not Necessary

  CHARACTERISTICS

  Plant Type: 

  Annual

  Height Category: 

  Short

  Garden Height: 

  10 - 16 Inches25cm - 41cm

  Trails Up To: 

  28 Inches 71cm

  Spacing: 

  12 - 18 Inches 30cm - 46cm

  Spread: 

  18 - 30 Inches 46cm - 76cm

  Foliage Colors: 

  Purple

  Foliage Shade: 

  Black Purple

  Habit: 

  Mounding Trailing

  Container Role: 

  Filler

  PLANT NEEDS

  Light Requirement: 

  Part Sun to Sun

  The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).

  Maintenance Category: 

  Easy

  Bloom Time: 

  Grown for Foliage

  Hardiness Zones: 

  11a, 11b

  Water Category: 

  Average

  Soil Fertility Requirement: 

  Average Soil

  Uses: 

  Border Plant

  Container

  Edging Plant

  Groundcover

  Landscape

  Mass Planting

  Uses Notes: 

  Works great in landscapes as an annual ground cover, as well as in combinations and containers by themselves.  The plant is very adaptable, working in both sun and shade conditions, atlhough the colors are deeper and brighter in full sun than they are in shadier environments where colors are tinged with more green. 

  Maintenance Notes: 

  Ipomoeas are great additions to combination planters, but they can sometimes overwhelm less vigorous plants. If you are like me you can let your combination plants duke it out Darwinian style, however, if you prefer to keep a more balanced look to your combination planters, you can cut back or remove stems at any time.

  Ipomoeas also make great annual groundcovers in the landscape. They love the heat and humidity (growing up to 36" a week in the Deep South), cooler temperatures and low humidity cause them to stay more compact.

  While Sweet Potatoes all come from the same parent material out of Southeast Asia, there is a big difference between the Sweet Potato you buy in the store and the tubers produced by the Sweet Caroline and the Illusion plants. Commercial sweet potatoes have been bred for over 100 years selecting for those with the best sugar to starch content (hence the name SWEET Potato), the ornamental have been bred to produce good leaves and no tubers, though they do form, they are composed of almost pure starch and no sugar; making them a poor choice for eating. So yes you can eat the tubers, but don't expect anyone to come back for seconds! Also always be careful when eating any ornamental plant unless you know how it was grown, and if pesticides or fungicides were used on it before you got it; a tuber is a storage root, and yes they store chemical as well as starch.

  An application of fertilizer or compost on garden beds and regular fertilization of plants in pots will help ensure the best possible performance.

  Sweet Caroline Bewitched After Midnight^™ Ipomoea batatas 'NCORNSP-023BWAM' USPP 29,858, Can 5,778

  PICTURES AND INFORMATION COPIED FROM PROVEN WINNERS