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Proven Accents® Tricolor Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas
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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).
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I have the SOUL of a SEQUOIA.Wonderful tricolored leaves on trailing growth
Award WinnerFoliage InterestHeat TolerantDeadheading Not NecessaryCharacteristics
Plant Type:AnnualHeight Category:ShortGarden Height:4 - 8 InchesTrails Up To:72 InchesSpacing:24 - 36 InchesSpread:24 - 36 InchesFlower Shade:NoneFoliage Colors:GreenFoliage Colors:PinkFoliage Colors:WhiteFoliage Shade:MulticoloredHabit:TrailingContainer Role:SpillerPlant Needs
Light Requirement:Part Sun to SunMaintenance Category:EasyBloom Time:Grown for FoliageHardiness Zones:11a, 11bWater Category:AverageUses:ContainerUses:LandscapeUses Notes:Use in hanging baskets, beds, borders and window boxes
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"
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7 Reviews
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Jamal Robertson, Georgia, United States, 6 years ago
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I bought my plants on clearance, they did much better than expected. In December they are still alive but straggly, hope they come back next spring.
Robbin Todd, California, United States, 7 years ago -
Wonderful color varigation and hardiness. Layered nicely in hanging baskets.
Debbi Piper, Pennsylvania, United States, 9 years ago -
It grew so beautifully in my window boxes mixed with geraniums and wave petunias
Sabrina, Utah, United States, 9 years ago -
Great plant with gaura - karalee petite pink
PWPau, New York, United States, 9 years ago -
TOOK CUTTINGS &ROOTED THEM HOPE TO OVER WINTER THEM &AM GOING TO TRY TO STORE TUBERS FOR SPRING GROWTH AS I LIVE IN I THINK ZONE 10 TO COLD
LOIISE CROCKER, Massachusetts, United States, 9 years ago -
This is the first plant I have grown in my large planters that has really taken. I have both the green and the purple and they looked amazing. I took cuttings and have them rooted and potted for next year.
Sue Eves, New Jersey, United States, 9 years ago
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