Salmon Sunset Four-O'Clock Flower Seeds
At season's end, it will have grown a tuber that you can dig up and store away for replanting in spring!
These luminous blooms open in late afternoon and remain colorful till dawn!
- Genus: Mirabilis
- Species: jalapa
- Variety: 'Salmon Sunset'
- Item Form: (P) Pkt of 40 seeds
- Zone: 8 - 11
- Bloom Start To End: Late Spring - Early Fall
- Habit: Upright
- Seeds Per Pack: 40
- Plant Height: 24 in - 3 ft
- Plant Width: 18 in
- Bloom Size: 1 in - 2 in
- Additional Characteristics: Bloom First Year, Butterfly Lovers, Direct Sow, Easy Care Plants, Flower, Fragrance, Pest Fighter, Rose Companions
- Bloom Color: Dark Orange, Dark Salmon
- Foliage Color: Dark Green
- Light Requirements: Full Sun
- Moisture Requirements: Dry, Moist, well-drained
- Resistance: Drought Tolerant, Heat Tolerant
- Season Of Interest: Summer
- Soil Tolerance: Normal, loamy
- Uses: Beds, Border, Containers, Outdoor
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These trumpet-shaped flowers are just 1 to 2 inches across, but held wide open and suffused with handsome sunset tones. They stand out brilliantly against dark green foliage on plants 2 to 3 feet tall. Find a spot in the sunny garden -- Four o'Clock does need good soil drainage -- and enjoy the blooms from late spring all the way through summer and fall! And at season's end, carefully dig up each plant and harvest the tuber that has grown from the original seed! You can replant it next spring for another season of glory (and even earlier blooms!)
And if you like Salmon Sunset, you must try multicolored Broken Colors, and lime-leaved Limelight,too! You just can't have too many Four o'Clocks in the garden -- they grow in a snap, bloom for months, and always look terrific when you least expect it!
One more note about Four o'Clocks: they are lovely in color and fragrance, but but also useful as a Japanese Beetle trap around roses and veggies. Japanese Beetles are drawn to Four o'Clock blooms like moths to flame, and if your garden is at all bothered by Japanese Beetles, simply plant Four o'Clocks near vulnerable plants (in addition to Roses, the beetles love potatoes, corn, and many berries). Once the Four o'Clocks start blooming, fill a bucket with water, add a squirt of dishwashing detergent, and visit the plants in late afternoon or evening. Chances are the flowers will be loaded with beetles, which you can kill by just dropping them into the soapy water. (And if your Four o'Clock attracts masses of the beetles -- and it might -- you can uproot the whole plant and dunk it in soapy water, killing hundreds of beetles at a single go.) It's a shame to sacrifice Four o'Clocks this way, but they're a fantastic alternative to potentially harmful sprays and other insecticides, and they're wonderfully effective! Hardy in zones 8-11. Pkt is 40 seeds.
Mirabilis Germination Information
Mirabilis is the botanical name for Four-O-Clock
How to Sow Mirabilis: - Sow indoors at a temperature of 65-80°
- Sow 4-6 weeks before last frost and at a depth of 4 times the diameter of the seed
- Expect germination in 7-10 days
- Seeds may also be sown outdoors after all danger of frost is past
- If sowing seed outdoors, we recommend a maximum planting depth of 4X the width of the seed
How to Grow Mirabilis:
Transplanting: Transplant when there are at least two sets of true leaves
Spacing: Space seedlings 1-11/2 feet apart in full sun or light shade
Soil: Use a slightly acid to alkaline (pH 6 to 8), light, well-drained soil is ideal, but Mirabilis is tolerant of poor soils. Feed monthly with a balanced fertilizer
Temperature: Plant very heat tolerant
Additional Care: Mirabilis will self-sow with abandon; even into Zone 7 the seeds will overwinter and plants will reappear year after year
Appearance and Use:
Often found growing in old homesteads, Four-O-Clocks will delight the unsuspecting by opening its abundant flowers around Four-O-Clock in the evening! It is a good mingler with other plants in borders and beds for a show that lasts from summer to frost. This vigorous plant, from 11/2-3 feet tall, produces soft, succulent, heavily branched stems that bear the fragrant, white, red, yellow, pink, or violet flowers. The flowers themselves are 1-2 inch long funnels that open in the evening and remain so through the night (and often in cloudy weather). Leaves are light green, smooth, and ovate from 2-4 inches long by 1-21/2 inches wide. Roots are tuberous
About Mirabilis:
Pronunciation: mi-rab’i-lis jå’lå-på
Lifecycle: Perennial
Origination: Nyctaginaceae; native to Peru
Common Name: Four-O-Clock
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
Park Seed offers some of the highest-quality vegetable and flower seeds available in the industry, and there are a number of reasons for this.First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
To make sure we are providing the best seed product possible and that our customers will get the highest number of seedlings from every packet, we conduct our own germination testing and have quality-control measures in every stage of our seed-handling operation. We hold ourselves to standards that are at or above federal and state standards, including testing specific crops more frequently than recommended by federal guidelines. And in order to maintain our organic certification, we welcome Clemson University to inspect us annually to make sure our organic seeds, which are stored and processed separately, are being handled properly.
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
And many of our seeds are packed in our exclusive Fresh-Pak gold foil packets, which are lined to keep moisture out, so the seeds stay fresher for longer. We carefully pack very tiny or fragile seeds in crush-proof vials to ensure safe delivery to your home. Some of the small seeds are also offered as "pellets" (have a clay coating) to make sowing and growing easier.
When it comes to the kinds of seeds we offer, we are constantly seeking something new and provide many unique and hard-to-find varieties from all around the world. Our on-staff horticulturists are ready and available to share their expertise to help you with the success of these seeds, so you can grow a beautiful and productive garden!
It is important for our customers to know that Park Seed does not sell GMO or treated seed. We do buy a small amount of traditional hybrid seed from Seminis, a division of Monsanto Co., but that is all we purchase from them.
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Extremely small seed such as Petunias and Pentas are shipped as pelleted seed to make them easier to handle and sow. Pelleted seed are coated, usually with clay, to make them larger in size. After sowing, the coating will dissolve when wet and the seed will germinate. Pelleted seeds are shipped in vials placed inside seed packets, which protects them from being crushed. When sowing, be certain to use thoroughly moistened soil, to be sure that the clay coating absorbs enough moisture to dissolve. For sowing pelleted Petunia seeds, place the seeds directly on the soil surface and do not cover with soil, as light aids in the germination.
These trumpet-shaped flowers are just 1 to 2 inches across, but held wide open and suffused with handsome sunset tones. They stand out brilliantly against dark green foliage on plants 2 to 3 feet tall. Find a spot in the sunny garden -- Four o'Clock does need good soil drainage -- and enjoy the blooms from late spring all the way through summer and fall! And at season's end, carefully dig up each plant and harvest the tuber that has grown from the original seed! You can replant it next spring for another season of glory (and even earlier blooms!)
And if you like Salmon Sunset, you must try multicolored Broken Colors, and lime-leaved Limelight,too! You just can't have too many Four o'Clocks in the garden -- they grow in a snap, bloom for months, and always look terrific when you least expect it!
One more note about Four o'Clocks: they are lovely in color and fragrance, but but also useful as a Japanese Beetle trap around roses and veggies. Japanese Beetles are drawn to Four o'Clock blooms like moths to flame, and if your garden is at all bothered by Japanese Beetles, simply plant Four o'Clocks near vulnerable plants (in addition to Roses, the beetles love potatoes, corn, and many berries). Once the Four o'Clocks start blooming, fill a bucket with water, add a squirt of dishwashing detergent, and visit the plants in late afternoon or evening. Chances are the flowers will be loaded with beetles, which you can kill by just dropping them into the soapy water. (And if your Four o'Clock attracts masses of the beetles -- and it might -- you can uproot the whole plant and dunk it in soapy water, killing hundreds of beetles at a single go.) It's a shame to sacrifice Four o'Clocks this way, but they're a fantastic alternative to potentially harmful sprays and other insecticides, and they're wonderfully effective! Hardy in zones 8-11. Pkt is 40 seeds.
Mirabilis Germination Information
Mirabilis is the botanical name for Four-O-Clock How to Sow Mirabilis: - Sow indoors at a temperature of 65-80°
- Sow 4-6 weeks before last frost and at a depth of 4 times the diameter of the seed
- Expect germination in 7-10 days
- Seeds may also be sown outdoors after all danger of frost is past
- If sowing seed outdoors, we recommend a maximum planting depth of 4X the width of the seed
How to Grow Mirabilis:
Transplanting: Transplant when there are at least two sets of true leaves
Spacing: Space seedlings 1-11/2 feet apart in full sun or light shade
Soil: Use a slightly acid to alkaline (pH 6 to 8), light, well-drained soil is ideal, but Mirabilis is tolerant of poor soils. Feed monthly with a balanced fertilizer
Temperature: Plant very heat tolerant
Additional Care: Mirabilis will self-sow with abandon; even into Zone 7 the seeds will overwinter and plants will reappear year after year
Appearance and Use:
Often found growing in old homesteads, Four-O-Clocks will delight the unsuspecting by opening its abundant flowers around Four-O-Clock in the evening! It is a good mingler with other plants in borders and beds for a show that lasts from summer to frost. This vigorous plant, from 11/2-3 feet tall, produces soft, succulent, heavily branched stems that bear the fragrant, white, red, yellow, pink, or violet flowers. The flowers themselves are 1-2 inch long funnels that open in the evening and remain so through the night (and often in cloudy weather). Leaves are light green, smooth, and ovate from 2-4 inches long by 1-21/2 inches wide. Roots are tuberous
About Mirabilis:
Pronunciation: mi-rab’i-lis jå’lå-på
Lifecycle: Perennial
Origination: Nyctaginaceae; native to Peru
Common Name: Four-O-Clock
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
Park Seed offers some of the highest-quality vegetable and flower seeds available in the industry, and there are a number of reasons for this.First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
To make sure we are providing the best seed product possible and that our customers will get the highest number of seedlings from every packet, we conduct our own germination testing and have quality-control measures in every stage of our seed-handling operation. We hold ourselves to standards that are at or above federal and state standards, including testing specific crops more frequently than recommended by federal guidelines. And in order to maintain our organic certification, we welcome Clemson University to inspect us annually to make sure our organic seeds, which are stored and processed separately, are being handled properly.
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
And many of our seeds are packed in our exclusive Fresh-Pak gold foil packets, which are lined to keep moisture out, so the seeds stay fresher for longer. We carefully pack very tiny or fragile seeds in crush-proof vials to ensure safe delivery to your home. Some of the small seeds are also offered as "pellets" (have a clay coating) to make sowing and growing easier.
When it comes to the kinds of seeds we offer, we are constantly seeking something new and provide many unique and hard-to-find varieties from all around the world. Our on-staff horticulturists are ready and available to share their expertise to help you with the success of these seeds, so you can grow a beautiful and productive garden!
It is important for our customers to know that Park Seed does not sell GMO or treated seed. We do buy a small amount of traditional hybrid seed from Seminis, a division of Monsanto Co., but that is all we purchase from them.
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Extremely small seed such as Petunias and Pentas are shipped as pelleted seed to make them easier to handle and sow. Pelleted seed are coated, usually with clay, to make them larger in size. After sowing, the coating will dissolve when wet and the seed will germinate. Pelleted seeds are shipped in vials placed inside seed packets, which protects them from being crushed. When sowing, be certain to use thoroughly moistened soil, to be sure that the clay coating absorbs enough moisture to dissolve. For sowing pelleted Petunia seeds, place the seeds directly on the soil surface and do not cover with soil, as light aids in the germination.