Illusion Emerald Lace Sweet Potato Vine

Group/Class: Illusion Series

Brand: Proven Winners

Ornamental Features:

Illusion Emerald Lace Sweet Potato Vine's attractive deeply cut lobed leaves remain emerald green in colour throughout the season. Neither the flowers nor the fruit are ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Illusion Emerald Lace Sweet Potato Vine is a dense 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 is a relatively low maintenance annual bedding plant. The flowers of this plant may actually detract from its ornamental features, so they can be removed as they appear. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Illusion Emerald Lace Sweet Potato Vine is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Container Planting
• Hanging Baskets
• Groundcover

Plant Characteristics:

Illusion Emerald Lace Sweet Potato Vine will grow to be about 8 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. 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 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 is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.