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Cinderella Yellow Lisianthus
Eustoma grandiflorum 'Cinderella Yellow'
Height: 18 inches
Spacing: 8 inches
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Hardiness Zone: 8b
Group/Class: Cinderella Series
Description:
A lovely variety producing elegant, cup shaped, cream flowers with pale yellow centers; pinch young plants to encourage branching; great for containers or garden beds
Ornamental Features
Cinderella Yellow Lisianthus features showy creamy white cup-shaped flowers with buttery yellow centers at the ends of the stems from early to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its pointy leaves remain green in color throughout the season.
Landscape Attributes
Cinderella Yellow Lisianthus is an herbaceous perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth. 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 plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should not require much pruning, except when necessary, such as to remove dieback. It has no significant negative characteristics.
Cinderella Yellow Lisianthus is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Mass Planting
- Border Edging
- General Garden Use
- Container Planting
Planting & Growing
Cinderella Yellow Lisianthus will grow to be about 18 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 8 inches apart. It grows at a fast rate, and tends to be biennial, meaning that it puts on vegetative growth the first year, flowers the second, and then dies. As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!
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 type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.
Cinderella Yellow Lisianthus is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers against which the larger 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.