Bidens 'Hawaiian Flare'
- This spectacular Bidens provides you with a totally unique and truly wonderful colour combination that will really brighten any summer display.
- These compact plants will become smothered with bloom throughout summer, constantly attracting butterflies and other friendly pollinating insects.
- A perfect contrast to more pastel plants and absolutely superb grown together with blue of purple petunias.
- Grow in baskets or taller containers. 'Hawaiian Flare' loves the heat so be sure to grow in a sunny spot.
- Supplied as a mixture of 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Product Description
It takes a special kind of beauty to brighten up even summertime gardens, yet this spectacular Biden certainly does not disappoint.
Forget regular varieties of yellow Bidens, which often flower in flushes, 'Hawaiian Flare' is here to cause waves on the spring bedding scene, producing fascinating displays of compact plants smothered in blooms throughout warm summer days.
The fiery blooms feature orange and yellow petals that really standout as they surround intricately formed centres, emerging on long stems from green, bushy foliage.
This variety has even been recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators', due to a profound ability to attract bees and other pollinating insects to the garden, wherever planted.
For real impact, plant alongside pastel-shaded plants, or grow together with blue or purple petunias for a vivid colour contrast. Grow in baskets or taller containers. 'Hawaiian Flare' loves the heat so be sure to grow in a sunny spot.
Supplied as a mixture of 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
What Is Supplied
Plant Information
Top Tips
Dead-head when flowers fade to encourage more blooms.
Care Guide
- For most plug plant collections, the “mini Greenhouse” they are packed in will have a label on the outside, listing the individual varieties inside. We recommend writing your own labels out on receipt!
- Give your plugs a little attention on arrival - unpack them immediately, and either mist them or stand them in water for an hour - they may be slightly dry or yellow after being in a dark box in the post, but they’ll quickly recover. If you can’t do this, they can sit in Mini Greenhouses for a week if upright and not too wet.
We recommend that you leave them to settle for a day somewhere warm, light and airy such as a windowsill or greenhouse. - When you're ready to pot on, use a good quality, multi-purpose compost, and fill 3-4in pots (7-10cm).
- Make a hole in the compost with a dibber or your finger, then holding each plug by its root ball, place it into the hole and gently firm the compost around it.
- For great results, we recommend using our Windowsill Planters or 9cm pots in Shuttle Trays.
- Give your plants a good water initially, then only when the top compost starts to dry as they don’t like to be left in standing water.
- Grow on either on a bright windowsill or a greenhouse for 3-4 weeks before potting up into containers or into flower beds.
- If planting directly into flower beds when all risk of frost has passed, prepare the ground well, removing weeds and digging in some compost or well-rotted manure if your soil is not already rich.
- Plant approx. 20cm (8in) apart to allow them room to grow. Feed using a high-potash feed such as Blooming Fast Superior Soluble Fertiliser for Flowers & Fruits, to encourage flowering.
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