Katie Purple Dwarf Mexican Petunia (Ruellia) – 5 Pack Quart Pots

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 8a-11  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial, Annual in zones north of 8a

Flower Color:  Levender-Blue, Purple

Flower Size:  2″ 

Flowering Period:  Late Spring to Frost!, year round in frost free climates

Flower Type:  Single

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Deep Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Visual Attention, Butterflies, Hummingbirds

Resistances:  Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit, Wet Soil

Katie Purple Dwarf Mexican Petunia is a cute dwarf Ruellia that produces loads of pretty, petunia-like, lavender-blue to purple flowers that contrast nicely against the glossy, dark green, narrow leaves. In frost-free zones it will nearly bloom year round. In cooler climates it blooms from late spring to frost. At only 12 inches tall, this durable perennial that will grow in moist to wet soils, and even tolerate drought when established, quickly fills in as a border or ground cover. Also a great solo or mixed with other plants in containers. The butterflies, hummingbirds and other beneficial pollinators will thank you for planting this season-long bloomer!

Mexican Petunia is an adaptable and versatile flowering perennial plant that will grow almost anywhere. It is ideal for use in low-lying boggy areas of the landscape but will also tolerate drier sites. Great as a solo or mixed with other plants in pots, planters and other containers, which can be brought indoors over the winter by those who live and garden north of USDA Zone 8a. In consistently boggy soils the plant will spread vigorously by underground roots, similar to Equisetum hymale (Horsetail Grass). In well-drained soils it tends to behave more like clump-forming groundcovers. A fine addition to butterfly gardens, bog gardens, perennial gardens, cottage gardens, and pink theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 1.5 feet apart for mass plantings;  3 feet or more for space between plants

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 8a, where this Mexican Petunia variety is not reliably winter hardy outdoors, you can enjoy growing it in containers that can be moved indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Katie Purple Dwarf Mexican Petunia is exceptionally easy to grow and care for. It grows best in a consistently moist to wet soil of average fertility. It is also quite drought tolerant when established, though flowering will be diminished somewhat until water is provided or rainfall resumes. We’ve grown it in full sun to part shade and it does equally as well. Too much shade though and flowering will be diminished. At least 4 hours of direct sunlight per day is suggested for best flowering. 

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