Stunning and Fragrant Angelonia Grandiflora Plants for Your Garden
- Common name:
- Common Angelonia, Tall Growing Angelonia, Gorgon Flower
- Regional name:
- Marathi - Angelonia
- Category:
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Groundcovers, Shrubs
- Family:
- Scrophulariaceae
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade, Shade growing
- Water:
- Normal, Can tolerate less
- Primarily grown for:
- Flowers
- Flowering season:
- Year-around flowering, Flowers in flushes throughout the year
- Flower or Inflorescence color:
- Purple, Light Pink, Dark Pink, White
- Foliage color:
- Green
- Plant Height or length:
- 50 cms to 100 cms
- Plant Spread or Width:
- 50 cms to 100 cms
- Plant Form:
- Low spreading
- Special Character:
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- Fragrant flowers or leaves
- Good for Cut flowers
- Good for Edges ie very small hedge or border
- Attracts birds
- Attracts butterflies
- Attracts bees
- Suitable for road median planting
- Hanging or weeping growth habit
- Good on seaside
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Over hundreds
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Plant Description:
- - A native of Brazil.
- Grows upto 1 m high.
- The foliage of this plant has a very pleasant but sometimes too strong a fragrance.
- With lanceolate toothed leaves and tall racemes with showy flowers.
- The flowers too have a strong fragrance.
- The tall growing varieties include a purple, a pink, a white and a light purple type.
- Plants form a neat mound of around 1 meter height by 1 meter width.
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Growing tips:
- - Plants require well drained and fertile soil with ample organic matter.
- Regular watering is required as the plants, leaves and flowers are fleshy.
- Flowers absolutely throughout the year.
