miss huff lantana from cuttings
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Lantana from seed blooming -- Miss Huff?
Comments (12)Christie, sometimes those hybridized plants do produce seeds, but those seeds are not likely to be viable....meaning that the seeds will be missing some of the genetic information needed to create another plant. Sterile hybrids are quite common. It's more common, though, for hybridized plants to produce seeds that will not reproduce offspring which are identical to the parent plant. So, either way......those Miss Huff seeds were not capable of producing Miss Huff plants. Not all lantana are hybrids, which explains the satisfactory reproduction of some varieties. Lantana is sold in a variety of sizes usually, anything from 4 inch to gallon containers. I'm happy to buy mine in a small size since they grow so darned fast. I never plan on them overwintering in my zone 7a-b location and if I weren't so lazy, I'd take several cuttings in the summer to grow during the winter. Lantana roots extremely readily if cuttings are inserted into damp, well-drained potting medium....See MoreCutting back lantana
Comments (5)We don't do anything special to ours. We do let the leaves that pile up on it during winter stay until we're ready to rake in early spring. I suppose that might provide some protection from the cold. Also, our ground never seems to freeze. We have a bit of success with overwintering certain annuals because of that. I believe the variety is "Miss Huff". It's mostly pink and yellow with a hint of orange. I'm not completely sure, but I think this is the same variety my mother grew for several years and it always came back. Another house near her has a lantana bush roughly 6ft tall, and it comes back every year. That's why I gave it a try, and sure enough it worked. Our NOID creeping purple lantana have survived winter too. Both have green on them, but it looks more like growth from last year and not so much new growth. If they remained somewhat green all winter I would be excited! We tried a yellow/orange type in a pot and it took too long to come back, so it was dug up and repotted to see what would happen... Needless to say, it did break dormancy just barely before it died from what I think was stress. The creeping red/orange variety ("Dallas Red"?) didn't survive in the ground last year. And it doesn't look like the creeping yellow variety survived this year. I'd like to grow the "Miss Huff" as large as I can this year, but with all the plants from winter sowing that need a spot, I think I might have to keep it as small as possible! Thank you for the help!...See MoreWS Lantana
Comments (3)Hi Linda Jo, Molanic talks about hardy lantana. I have recently gotten a lantana hybrid called Miss Huff that is supposed to be hardy in your 7b Raleigh, North Carolina area. Do you like yellow gold? Mine is a bright gold color that ages to orange, then pale coral on an upright lantana that may grow to 4-8 ft every summer. My tiny new plants: # 1 blossom changes color when it ages, #2 buds opening on another Miss Huff lantana Miss Huff is a sterile hybrid that is propagated by cuttings and requires much less water than the normal lantana. After reading rave reviews in the gw Butterfly Forum about how popular Miss Huff is with the butterflies and hummingbirds, I searched, found cheap little plants on ebay and rushed to get them planted a month ago. Lantana dies back in the winter and is only cut in the spring and summer. If you cut it back in the late fall or winter, water gets in the woody stems, freezes, rots the plant, plant dies. Link below is from the Carolina Gardening Forum - see first and last posts, picture, link (old thread but good picture). If Miss Huff interests you perhaps a neighbor of yours in the Carolina forum might give you a cutting next spring. For some reason links are not working today in gw, so please copy and paste. Carolina forum, "miss huff lantana from cuttings" http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/carolgard/msg0911591418072.html Alternative - someone overwinters a lantana cutting in a glass of water, but I wonder if it stays in water all winter? See very last post: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/seedsave/msg052103264829.html?13 Includes pics above, My new lantana: http://public.fotki.com/rivercrossroads/lantana/...See MoreWant: Lantana 'Miss Huff', 'Mozelle' sp
Comments (3)not sure what 'mozelle' is - another lantana? In any case, this really should be on the exchanges page. Also, you're going to be hard pressed to find anyone who wants to trade for lantanas right now unless they overwintered in a basement or something since they are late emergers, and if going at all are just barely emerging. If you want cuttings, it'd be better to ask in june or july when there is semi-hardwood to take cuttings of....See Moremrsboomernc
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