Golden Acre Home & Garden Centre's Plant Library

Other Names:  Painted Tongue, Velvet Trumpet Flower

Description:

A spectacular variety producing intricately colorful trumpet flowers all summer until first frost; perfect for containers where they can be appreciated up close

Ornamental Features

Royale Purple Bicolor Stained Glass Flower features showy purple trumpet-shaped flowers with yellow throats and crimson veins held atop the stems from early summer to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its tomentose narrow leaves remain green in colour throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Royale Purple Bicolor Stained Glass Flower is an herbaceous annual with a more or less rounded form. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant. Trim off the flower heads after they fade and die to encourage more blooms late into the season. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Royale Purple Bicolor Stained Glass Flower is recommended for the following landscape applications;

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

Planting & Growing

Royale Purple Bicolor Stained Glass Flower will grow to be about 14 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 10 inches apart. 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 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 pH, but grows best in rich soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It can be propagated by cuttings; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

Royale Purple Bicolor Stained Glass Flower is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor containers and hanging baskets. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers against which the thriller plants stand out. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.