Landscaping Of Lantana Plant: Filler For Your Garden

Lantana saplings need warm soil and so they are usually planted in spring season. Their plantation should be timed well so that they can be saved from frost and chill of the winter. Lantana plants are of various colors and for this reason itself they are added to the spring gardens.

Lantana Plant Landscaping

They can be either planted in the ground soil or can be planted in hanging basket to give a beautiful look at the edges of the garden. While on ground they may last only till there season, hanging basket will hold them for the whole year. Since lantana plants respond to sun they should be placed in such a way that they get ample amount of sunlight. While designing a lantana landscape, one must make sure that lantana plants are not placed in corners where sunlight occasionally falls; for shady areas, you must choose fuchsia hangers.

The best part of a garden is its flowers and the butterflies, which hum around bright flowers to suck its nectar. While fuchsia hangers will attract humming birds to your garden, lantana will charm butterflies to them. So, plan lantana plant landscaping accordingly.

While gardens need to have a green grass carpet, it often becomes a bit monotonous as it is much more of traditional way garden that can be designed. With latest day trends, there are different kinds of plants, which can be used to cover the large garden area. One can use lantana plants to correspond the greenery of the grass carpet. Lantana is a perennial plant that requires plantation just once. They are cheap as well as require little care from the gardener’s side.

Since lantana has the capability to spread its roots, the landscaper should prepare a perfect space for these shrubs so that they spread in a particular direction. They have the tendency to become bushy and so you can prune them accordingly to get a desirable shape. Either you can plant them in rows or you can use to differentiate the garden in two sections. All you need to take care is they need to be planted once and need plenty of water and sunlight to flourish while much care should be taken during chilly winters to protect them from dying. 

Garden landscaping is an art, which require necessary information about the plantation of plants as well in the garden apart from leveling the garden surface. While leveling involves deciding over the elevations and depressions in the garden area, cultivation is done keeping in mind the color of flowers.

The selection of plants and their placement is very much necessary for this purpose. Lantana is one such plant that is often used to fill the garden ground and give it beautiful look with its orange, pink and light yellow color flowers.