Illusion® Midnight Lace Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas

4.25” POT 

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Exposure

• Part Sun to Sun

Flower Season

• Spring
• Summer

Mature Size

Height: 6" - 10"

Spread: 2' - 3'

Plant is not sold online. 

• DETAILS

  FEATURES

  A great foliage component plant in combinations, excellent heat tolerance and good vigor. Great also as an annual ground cover.

  Award Winner

  Foliage Interest

  Heat Tolerant

  Deadheading Not Necessary

  CHARACTERISTICS

  Plant Type: 

  Annual

  Height Category: 

  Short

  Garden Height: 

  6 - 10 Inches15cm - 25cm

  Trails Up To: 

  30 Inches 76cm

  Spacing: 

  10 - 12 Inches 25cm - 30cm

  Spread: 

  24 - 36 Inches 61cm - 91cm

  Foliage Colors: 

  Purple

  Foliage Shade: 

  Black/Purple

  Habit: 

  Trailing

  Container Role: 

  Spiller

  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: 

  Container

  Landscape

  Mass Planting

  Uses Notes: 

  Great in combinations, window boxes, hanging baskets and landscapes.

  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.

  "A Real Simple magazine Top 10 goofproof Plant"

   

  Illusion^® Midnight Lace Ipomoea batatas 'NCORNSP-011MNLC' USPP 21,743, Can 4,161

  PICTURRS AND INFORMATION COPIED FROM PROVEN WINNERS