1 3

Proven Winners

Proven Winners Artist® Blue Ageratum (Flossflower)

Proven Winners Artist® Blue Ageratum (Flossflower)

$9.99 USD
$9.99 USD
Sale Sold out
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Size

14 in stock

This heat tolerant plant has small, fluffy, blue button-like flowers that add color all season. The old blooms are buried under new growth so no dead heading is needed.

Award Winner
Continuous Bloom or Rebloomer
Long Blooming
Fall Interest
Heat Tolerant
Deadheading Not Necessary
Attracts: 
Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Hummingbirds

CHARACTERISTICS

Plant Type: 
 Annual
 
Height Category: 
 Short
 
Garden Height: 
 8 - 12 Inches
 
Spacing: 
 10 - 12 Inches
 
Spread: 
 6 - 10 Inches
 
Flower Colors: 
 Blue

 Purple
 
Flower Shade: 
 Blue-Purple
 
Foliage Colors: 
 Green
 
Foliage Shade: 
 Green
 
Habit: 
 Mounded
 
Container Role: 
 Filler

PLANT NEEDS

Light Requirement: 
 Part Sun to Sun

The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).

Maintenance Category: 
 Easy
Bloom Time: 
 Planting To Hard Frost
Hardiness Zones: 
 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b
Water Category: 
 Average
Soil Fertility Requirement: 
 Average Soil
Uses: 
 Border Plant

 Container

 Cut Flower

 Landscape

 Mass Planting
Uses Notes: 
 

Use in combinations, window boxes and landscaping

Maintenance Notes: 
 

Deadheading not necessary for continuous bloom. Plants will "bury their dead" (new flowers will quickly cover old flowers) so no deadheading is necessary. Most other Ageratum will need deadheading.

Unlike most Ageratum the Artist series will bloom through the summer in hot climates. The Dallas Arboretum has used Artist ageratum for years in very prominent locations with great success. They are good in pots or in the landscape. Old flowers should quickly become buried under new flowers so the plant always looks fresh and never look old. The plants shouldn't need much, if any, maintenance. However, if the plants do become ratty or start to overgrow their location you can trim that back at any time. They will flush back into bloom in a week or so.

An application of fertilizer or compost on garden beds and regular fertilization of plants in pots will help ensure the best possible performance.

Proven Winners brings a new vegetative line of Ageratum. These strong performing Ageratums have a great growth habit that produces mounds of soft blue or deep violet-purple flowers. Artist 'Blue' & Artist 'Purple' will work extremely well in containers, mixed baskets and in the landscape. These vegetative Ageratums are more uniform and flower more consistently than seed grown varieties. They are weather-resistant and thrive in bright full sun. Deer-resistant.

Artist® Blue Ageratum hybrid 'Agsantis' USPP 15,289
View full details