{"id":3551,"date":"2012-08-23T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2012-08-22T17:45:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T21:45:48","slug":"senorita-rosalita-a-welcome-spider-flower-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/08\/23\/senorita-rosalita-a-welcome-spider-flower-addition\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Senorita Rosalita\u2019 &#8211; A Welcome Spider Flower Addition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3553\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_27341.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3553\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3553\" title=\"IMG_2734\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_27341-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_27341-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_27341-1024x575.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Se\u00f1orita Rosalita spider flower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cleome or spider flower (<em>Cleome hassleriana<\/em>) is the 5-6 foot flowering annual that your grandmother grew in her garden. Long stamens extending from the flowers look like spider legs, hence the common name. The old fashioned varieties produced lots of seed pods which meant lots of weed seed in next year\u2019s garden. As summer temperatures rose, flower power declined and lower leaves dried up.<\/p>\n<p>Se\u00f1orita Rosalita is a vastly improved cultivar, displaying\u00a0medium green leaves on a 3 to 4 feet tall upright branched plant, topped by brightly colored flowers. It flowers continuously through the heat of summer up to autumn frost. Flowers are spidery clusters of 4-petaled lavender-pink flowers\u00a03 to\u00a05 inches across. The gorgeous blooms\u00a0should catch\u00a0anyone&#8217;s attention in flower borders and in large planters.<\/p>\n<p>Se\u00f1orita Rosalita flowers are sterile, which means no seeds. It exhibits tremendous heat and drought tolerance which means no leafless stems in late summer. Se\u00f1orita Rosalita has no sticky stems or thorns. Flowers are produced all over the compact plant. Plants exhibit an upright growth habit, maturing from 24 to 48 inches tall, depending on soil moisture and nutrition over the growing year.<\/p>\n<p>This South American native\u00a0grows best in full sun. Space transplants 18-24 inches apart in well-drained soil. Add 1-2 lbs of 10-10-10 or equivalent fertilizer per 100 sq. ft. of garden bed at planting time. Supplement with a water soluble fertilizer (Miracle-Gro\u00ae, Schultz\u00ae, or Hollytone\u00ae) at the start of summer and 6 weeks later. Se\u00f1orita Rosalita is self-cleaning, and requires no special deadheading. Irrigate regularly for the first 3-4 weeks until established\u00a0so that\u00a0cleome can handle summer\u2019s heat and humidity. The foliage and flowers stay mostly disease and pest free all summer long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleome or spider flower (Cleome hassleriana) is the 5-6 foot flowering annual that your grandmother grew in her garden. Long stamens extending from the flowers look like spider legs, hence the common name. The old fashioned varieties produced lots of seed pods which meant lots of weed seed in next year\u2019s garden. As summer temperatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,398,749,710,674,806,630,919,705,706,646,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3561,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}