Growing Cleome

Annual Flower
Botanical Name: Cleome
Family: Capparaceae family
Genus: Cleome

Description :

Planting Cleome flowers is a lovely garden adventure. Extremely simple in growing, this lovely garden adventure re-seeds itself and grows year after year. Also known as Spider flowers, Cleome look extremely beautiful in flower beds, borders, large containers, in background plantings, mixed with shrubs and are a good addition to the bird or butterfly garden too.

Growing Information:

Tools needed for growing Cleome:

• Gardening gloves

• Packet of Cleome seeds

• Trowel

• Rake

• Label and pencil

How to plant Cleome seeds:

• Plant the Cleome seeds in a location that receives full sun to partial shade.

• These do not need any specific soil. The soil just needs to be well draining.

• When grown from seeds they grow as fragrant flowers that are about 6 feet tall while the dwarf variety ones have no fragrance at all.

• Cleome plants grow to become drought tolerant .

• These plants need less nitrogen when compared to other annuals and shrug of pests and diseases.

Varieties of Cleome Series:

• Sparkler Series- Short, bushy and ideal for containers

• Queen Series- Open pollinated variety, it grows up to 6 feet

• Senorita Rosalita- A sterile and thorn less hybrid that does not self-seed

• Spirit Series- Dwarf, silvery cast leaves, tall thriller plant

Happy Gardening!