After seeing the flowers at the Young's Plant Farm annual garden tour in Auburn, Alabama, I felt a sense of desperation to get my hands on the Luscious Basket Tangeglow lantana. I don't always think about lantana being a component plant in mixed-container designs, but they had several that were simply dazzling. Luscious Basket Tangeglow is a fairly new lantana, and its name gives reference to its compact nature of 12 to 26 inches in height and a spread of 12 to 24 inches.
You might wonder about the differences in height and width, and that is attributed to the length of the growing season. Luscious Basket Tangeglow has done great in university trials, winning Perfect Score at the University of Minnesota, Iowa State, Oklahoma State and the University of Tennessee. Then it took home Directors Select at Penn State and a bunch of Top Performer awards.
The Luscious Basket Tangeglow offers flowers that might at first seem like all of the other lantanas in the market with orange and yellow, but it is the third color, peach, that makes it unique and opens the door to such artistic recipes as those seen at the Young's Plant Farm tour. I think my favorite was a recipe called Never Lonely. I can tell from my Facebook fans this was a hit according to their responses.
It features Supertunia Bermuda Beach, Superbells Yellow calibrachoa and of course the star of this column, the Luscious Basket Tangeglow lantana. The name, Never Lonely, would certainly seem appropriate for a couple of reaso.
