PLANT FINDER

Other Names:  Wishbone Flower

Group/Class:  Summer Wave Series

Brand:  Suntory

Description:

An attractive selection that blooms early from spring through summer, one of the earliest-flowering; vigorous, while maintaining compactness and very easy to grow; super low maintenance with continuous blooming

Ornamental Features

Summer Wave® Bouquet Cream Yellow Torenia features showy buttery yellow tubular flowers with creamy white overtones and lavender throats along the stems from mid spring to mid fall. Its small fragrant pointy leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Summer Wave® Bouquet Cream Yellow Torenia is an herbaceous annual with a trailing habit of growth, eventually spilling over the edges of hanging baskets and containers. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should not require much pruning, except when necessary, such as to remove dieback. It is a good choice for attracting bees and hummingbirds to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Summer Wave® Bouquet Cream Yellow Torenia is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Border Edging
• General Garden Use
• Groundcover
• Container Planting
• Hanging Baskets

Planting & Growing

Summer Wave® Bouquet Cream Yellow Torenia will grow to be about 8 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 20 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 10 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. This fast-growing annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year.

This plant does best in partial shade to shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by cuttings; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

Summer Wave® Bouquet Cream Yellow Torenia is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor containers and hanging baskets. Because of its trailing habit of growth, it is ideally suited for use as a 'spiller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.