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.
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
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
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
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
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.
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.
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
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
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
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
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.