Four O Clocks Flower Garden Seeds

Four O'clocks, Marvel of Peru ( Mirabilis )

Gardening Information Also called marvel-of-Peru, four-o'-clock opens in the late afternoon on sunny days, greeting you at tea time. These tropical natives were brought to Europe in the 16th century by conquistadors returning from South America. Early European settlers brought them to North America a century later.

Features: Attractive Flowers, Attractive Foliage, Fragrant Night Blooming Flowers. Good for containers, flowerbeds or borders. Good cutflower. Use in combination with flowering tobacco, globe amaranth ( 'Strawberry Fields'), strawflower and cosmos.

Care: Deadhead daily, and remove discolored foliage to maintain a tidy appearance. Where hardy, mulch in winter. In Zones 7 and colder, dig up tubers in fall (after frost blackens foliage), and store in boxes of sand or peat in a cool, frost-free location.

Plant in spring. Choose a sunny site with moist, well-drained soil, and amend with compost or well-rotted manure. Set plants at the same depth they were in pot, spacing them at a distance equal to their mature spread. Water after planting, and mulch to conserve moisture. Or direct sow after danger of frost has passed.
Maintain uniform moisture all season. Apply a balanced, soluble fertilizer weekly, following label directions.

TST190 Broken Colors Four O Clocks ( Mirabilis )

Broken Colors Four O’Clock has bi-colored and mottled flowers in shades of pink, red, rose, white, and yellow. This old-time garden favorite gets its common name from its late afternoon to early morning bloom time. It is a tender perennial that forms tubers, and flowers are fragrant and trumpet-shaped. Attracts birds and butterflies. Plants are easy to grow and thrive almost anywhere, reseeding readily.
A single plant produces myriad 1- to 2-inch trumpet-shaped blooms in all combinations of raspberry, lemon-yellow, orange-golden, and frosty-white. Grows from 12 to 36 inches tall.