Luscious® Royale Red Zone™ Lantana

Brighten up your landscaping with this exceptionally intense lantana that unleashes a non-stop display of flamboyant bright red, orange, and vibrant yellow flowers. This sterile, compact variety stands out for its remarkable performance, blooming continuously from spring until the first hard frost without ever wasting energy producing seeds. It maintains a flawless, neat shape all season long, quickly becoming the focal point of sunny containers and garden beds.

Characteristics

• Foliage: Dark green, rough, and aromatic when crushed, forming a dense, well-branched bush that beautifully showcases the warm flower colors; deciduous foliage under our climate.
• Blooming: Dense clusters of color-changing small flowers, showcasing vibrant tones of red, orange, and yellow, continuously renewing until the first hard frost.
• Light Requirement: Requires full sun to maximize blooming abundance and brightness; loves intense light.
• Habit: Compact, mounded, upright, and beautifully uniform.
• Growth Rate: Fast; reaches a height of 30 to 65 cm and forms a well-structured ball of color.
• Soil: Flourishes in light, well-drained soil, but adapts to a wide variety of soil types as long as they are not waterlogged.
• Temperature: Grown as an annual plant; native to tropical climates, it does not survive frost.
• Resistances: Demonstrates exceptional tolerance to extreme heat, drought once established, and humid summer conditions.

Uses

• Types of Use: Ideal for creating a massive impact in feature pots, window boxes, mixed patio containers, or planted in groups in the foreground of flower beds and borders.
• Ornamental Advantages: Offers a dome of warm, tropical colors that never fades, instantly catching the eye thanks to its striking contrast with the dark green foliage.

Maintenance

• Watering: Water regularly to promote establishment, then moderately once the plant is well rooted; Sample text updates.
• Fertilization: Apply a water-soluble fertilizer for flowering plants every two weeks, or incorporate a slow-release fertilizer into the potting mix at planting time to sustain its continuous flower production.
• Pruning: No deadheading required as this sterile variety does not produce fruit and naturally drops its spent flowers; can be pinched to maintain its compact shape if necessary.
• Planting: Install plants outdoors in late May or early June, once all danger of frost has passed and the soil has warmed up.