{"id":8420,"date":"2016-07-21T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2016-07-08T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T20:52:10","slug":"spider-flowers-excel-in-summers-heat-and-humidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2016\/07\/21\/spider-flowers-excel-in-summers-heat-and-humidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider Flowers Excel In Summer’s Heat And Humidity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spider flower (Cleome) at Dallas Arboretum in Texas<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cleome ‘Senorita Mi Amor’ at Univ. of Tennessee Gardens, Knoxville, TN<\/p><\/div>\n

Spider flowers\u00a0(Cleome x hybrida<\/em>) are top performing summer flowering annuals. Each year plant breeders introduce\u00a0compact\u00a0varieties to beautify\u00a0flower beds and container gardens. Select among vegetative and seed produced types.<\/p>\n

Spider flowers\u00a0ask for\u00a0weekly watering and full day sunlight (best)\u00a0 to\u00a0achieve maximum blooming potential. They will grow in a partially shaded beds\u00a0but\u00a0bloom less and the plants tend to stretch.<\/p>\n

Cleomes\u00a0grow in average soil that is well-drained. Amending the soil with compost at planting and mulching are\u00a0highly recommended to keep them\u00a0highly floriferous.\u00a0Rated as moderately drought tolerant, spider flowers prosper under\u00a0weekly irrigation. Before planting work in lots of compost into garden soil or container media; broadcast a slow release fertilizer over the entire bed.<\/p>\n

By mid-summer heavy feeding plants, particularly those in containers, become nutritionally deficient. Bottom leaves are first to turn yellow and bloom count becomes more sparse. Summer- feed container plants twice monthly with a water soluble fertilizer such as Miracle-Gro\u00ae, Peters\u00ae, or Schultz\u00ae at label rates.<\/p>\n

Spider flowers are\u00a0highly disease and pest resistant.\u00a0Low compact forms require no staking compared to old-fashioned tall varieties that your grandmother used to grow.<\/p>\n

Leading Cleome<\/em> hybrids are:<\/p>\n

Cleome Clio Magenta –\u00a018 – 36 inches tall and\u00a012 – 24 inches spread violet spider-like flowers with pink overtones.<\/p>\n

Senorita Rosalita – 24 – 48 inches tall and 18 – 24 inches wide; do not self seed, keeps its lower foliage all season long;\u00a0not prickly.<\/p>\n

Sparkler series -reach 3 1\/2 – 4 feet tall; plants are vigorous, and bloom heavily from spring to early fall; choice of white, blush and \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0lavender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spider flowers\u00a0(Cleome x hybrida) are top performing summer flowering annuals. Each year plant breeders introduce\u00a0compact\u00a0varieties to beautify\u00a0flower beds and container gardens. Select among vegetative and seed produced types. Spider flowers\u00a0ask for\u00a0weekly watering and full day sunlight (best)\u00a0 to\u00a0achieve maximum blooming potential. They will grow in a partially shaded beds\u00a0but\u00a0bloom less and the plants tend to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,398,1218,747,1319,749,605,1037,674,665,1324,602,551,843,1059,777,630,919,705,823,706,646,113,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420"}],"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=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8830,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions\/8830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}