| Description | One of the more common Heliotrope cultivars grown and sold for the bedding plant market. A tender perennial grown as an annual. |
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| Pronunciation | (hee-li-oo-TROP-i-um)(ar-bo-RES-enz) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Annuals |
| Hardiness Zone | 9-11 |
| Sunlight | full is best for flowering, tolerates some shade |
| Moisture | average, moist, never soggy |
| Soil & Site | average, moist, never soggy |
| Temperature | tolerates to the 40's F, killed by frost |
| Flowers | deep purple, borne in umbels, fragrant, flowers best during the warm parts of the growing season |
| Leaves | deep green |
| Roots | fibrous |
| Dimensions | 20 inches high, space 10-12 inches |
| Propagation | seeds, cuttings |
| Native Site | Peru |
| Misc Facts | Became very popular during the Victoria era. They bedded out the plants and over wintered them in their conservatories. Helios is Greek for the sun, trope means to turn, arborescence means tree like, referring to its shrubby form. |
| Notes & Reference | #28-Cottage Garden Annuals(Clive Lane) #37-The Contained Garden (Kenneth A. Beckett, David Carr), #47-Annuals for the Connoisseurs (Wayne Winterrowd) #48-Harrowsmiths Annual Garden (Bennet and Forsyth) #51-Armitage's Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy Perennials (Alan Arimitage) |
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