Field Of Dreams Ornamental Corn

Ornamental Features:

Field Of Dreams Ornamental Corn's attractive enormous sword-like leaves remain green in colour with prominent creamy white stripes and tinges of pink throughout the season. Neither the flowers nor the fruit are ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Field Of Dreams Ornamental Corn is an open herbaceous annual bedding plant with a shapely form and gracefully arching foliage. Its wonderfully bold, coarse texture can be very effective in a balanced garden composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance annual bedding plant, and should never be pruned except to remove any dieback, as it tends not to take pruning well. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Field Of Dreams Ornamental Corn is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Accent
• Mass Planting
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Field Of Dreams Ornamental Corn will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. It tends to be leggy, with a typical clearance of 2 feet from the ground, and should be underplanted with lower-growing perennials. This fast-growing annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year.

This annual bedding plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by seed.

This is a selection of a native North American species.