Catalina Midnight Blue Torenia

Other Names: Wishbone Flower

Group/Class: Catalina Series

Brand: Proven Winners

Ornamental Features:

Catalina Midnight Blue Torenia features showy royal blue tubular flowers with sky blue overtones and a buttery yellow flare along the stems from late spring to mid fall. It's small fragrant pointy leaves remain green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Catalina Midnight Blue Torenia is an herbaceous annual bedding plant with a trailing habit of growth, eventually spilling over the edges of hanging baskets and containers. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This annual bedding plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should not require much pruning, except when necessary, such as to remove dieback. It is a good choice for attracting bees and hummingbirds to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Catalina Midnight Blue Torenia is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Container Planting
• Border Edging
• Hanging Baskets
• Groundcover

Plant Characteristics:

Catalina Midnight Blue Torenia will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. 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 annual bedding plant does best in partial shade to shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by cuttings.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.