Plant Library

Group/Class:  Lofos Series

Brand:  Proven Winners

Description:

This lovely, fast growing variety can be trained up trellises, cascaded over garden walls, or spill over containers or baskets; showy white tubular flowers bloom steadily from spring to fall; a tremendous garden or patio accent plant

Ornamental Features

Lofos® White Creeping Gloxinia features showy white tubular flowers with buttery yellow throats along the stems from mid spring to mid fall. Its serrated pointy leaves remain light green in color throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Lofos® White Creeping Gloxinia is an herbaceous annual with a trailing habit of growth, eventually spilling over the edges of hanging baskets and containers. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and should not require much pruning, except when necessary, such as to remove dieback. It is a good choice for attracting bees and butterflies to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Lofos® White Creeping Gloxinia is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use
• Groundcover
• Container Planting
• Hanging Baskets

Planting & Growing

Lofos® White Creeping Gloxinia will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 7 feet. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. This fast-growing annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year.

This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in rich soils. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Lofos® White Creeping Gloxinia 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. It is even sizeable enough that it can be grown alone in a suitable container. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.