
Four O'Clocks
- Botanical Name
- Mirabilis jalapa
- Min Zone
- 9
- Max Zone
- 11
- Height
- 2 to 3 feet
- Width
- 2 to 3 feet
- Flowers
- Summer to frost: 1 inch funnel-shaped tubular, opening in late afternoon; white, red, yellow,, magenta, pink, mottled or striped; fragrant
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Planting & Care
- Tolerant of a wide range of soils
- Tolerates heat and pollution
- Sow seeds directly in the garden after last frost date
- Seeds can be started indoors 6 to 8 weeks before last frost
- Set out transplants or overwintered tubers in the garden after last frost date
- Tubers can be dug up in fall and stored for winter in peat or sand in a frost free location
- Problems
- None serious
- Varieties
- Alba - white flowers
- Orange Crush - bright orange blooms
- Salmon Sunset - salmon pink flowers
- Limelight - chartreuse foliage, neon pink flowers
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