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Tradescantia 'Sweet Kate' (20)ct Flat

Tradescantia ‘Sweet Kate’ (20)ct Flat

Original price was: $109.26.Current price is: $57.57.

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Tradescantia x ‘Sweet Kate’ Common Name: Golden Spiderwort, ‘Blue and Gold’. Zone: 5 to 8. Full sun to full shade. Soil conditions should be moist in full sun. Plants will have nicer foliage, though perhaps fewer flowers, in partial to full shade. Height: 18 inches tall, spread 12 to 18 inches. Moderate growth, Herbaceous clump-forming perennial.

Chartreuse to bright golden-yellow, grass-like foliage provides spectacular backdrop to the rich violet-blue triangular flowers. Flowers all summer if deadheaded.

Tradescantia is adaptable to many types of soil as long as it is moist and well-drained; but prefer moist, acidic, humus soils. To encourage new growth and a second round of bloom, after flowering declines, cut plants all the way back.

This clump-forming perennial is easy to divide in either the spring or in early fall. Seedlings may sprout around the parent plant, but they are easily lifted and moved. Plant Tradscantia in a naturalized area, rock gardens, open woodland gardens, or by a pond or stream.

When stems of spiderworts are cut, a viscous stem secretion is released which becomes thread-like and silky upon hardening (like a spider’s web), hence the common name.

Attributes: Border plants, Containers, Mass Planting. Attracts butterflies.

Twenty (20) plants per flat (or tray). Approximate Plug Measurements: 3.25 inches deep x 2.6 inches wide.

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