Pentas prefer full to partial sun -- about 4 to 8 hours of direct sun during a day. Plant transplants about 12-16 inches apart in a well-prepared, raised landscape bed.

Pentas are among the best annual summer color plants we can grow in Mississippi gardens and landscapes. ... that gets full sun for at least six hours each day.

Full Sun Flowers For Your Garden If your garden receives a lot of direct sunlight, ... Grow pentas in full to partial sun and provide regular water, especially as they are established.

Year-round clusters of star-shaped blossoms in a plethora of colors are enough to make pentas outstanding. But when you consider this plant’s ability to thrive in sun or filtered light – its ...

Pentas, also called Egyptian star clusters, ... They really perform best in fertile, well-drained soil in full sun. Prepare the bed by incorporating 3 to 4 inches of organic matter, ...

I like to surround my grouping of Pentas with burgundy- and lime-colored sweet potato vines for added interest. Q: ... "The Queen Victoria agave can be planted in full sun, ...

Pentas tolerate sun to bright shade and are best in an organically enriched, well-draining soil. June 30, 2007. ... Kim Ogg goes full red: Calls for GOP takeover of Harris County ...

Q. We have an 8-by-8-foot area planted with big red pentas. They eventually became woody and we replaced them with dwarf pentas, but now they are dying. We want something for this area that will no… ...

The pentas fulfills all those preferences but the fragrance. Planted in loamy, moderately moist soil, a small one-gallon potted plant will turn into a compact, bloom-covered shrub in a single summer.

I first got to know pentas one particularly brutal summer. Some of my annuals in containers had "cooked" in the blazing sun by August, so I went to a local garden center in search of replacements ...