Mina Lobata Flower Seeds ~ Grow Your Own ~ Spring Flowers ~ Instead of Flowers

Looking for something really eye-catching in your garden that attracts butterflies and hummingbirds? Consider growing mina lobata, an annual vine with brightly colored flowers that look like exploding fireworks. Mina Lobata is a native of Mexico and is a fan of twining itself up and around over things, a half hardy annual climber….in fact it is in the Morning Glory family…despite not having the usual saucer shaped flowers. Instead its blooms cascade from a flaming, lava red…to Jafa orange..fading to cream.

~ Includes ~

~ Seeds, Quantity ranging from 5-20 (your choice).

~ Grow and Care Instructions.

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 ~ Grow Instructions ~

Soak the seed overnight in warm water or nick the flower seed with a knife to break the outer coat of the seed. For the earliest blooms, start the flower seed indoors. Cover the Spanish Flag plant seeds with 1/4 inch of soil and keep moist. Transplant Mina Lobata seedlings outside after frost danger has passed. Firecracker Vine seeds can also be started directly outdoors in a prepared seed bed once temperatures have warmed in the spring.

~ Care Instructions ~

Mina lobata vines should be planted in full sun, which means 6 to 8 hours of direct sunlight each day. If you try to grow your vines in partial shade, they will not flower as well.

The vines should be planted 12 inches apart in well-drained soil that ranges from slightly acidic to slightly alkaline. You will need to provide something for them to climb on, such as a trellis. Mina lobata can be grown in containers, but need some kind of support to climb on.

Make sure that your vines get a minimum of 1 inch of water per week. Fertilize them with a fertilizer formulated for flowering plants when they begin to set buds. This will encourage more blooms. Avoid fertilizers that are high in nitrogen which encourage foliage rather than flowers.

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