Balcony Garden – Blooming this Week
June 28, 2010 – 10:10 am
As you know, I’m not a big fan of annuals, but every year I get sucked into buying a few. It’s either the colour, or a memory connected to a plant. I was so close to not buying any but succumbed when I saw these two plants together.
Calibrachoa Superbells Tickled Pink and Hypoestes phyllostachya happen to share the same pink base colour. So you just can’t go wrong partnering these two together. The calibrachoa is really easy to grow and will probably take over the polka-dotted plant by mid-summer – just how I planned it because the decorative foliage doesn’t like the hot sun. Hypoestes phyllostachya also likes a bit if humidity. Sorry about that, shade is going to be the only thing I can provide, although I have the annual containers tucked close to the ponds.
The pink calibrachoa is settling in and starting to bloom profusely this week – and with a little bit of attention, those blooms will continue to frost. That’s another good reason to by annuals.