Plant Information
Description
- Perennial
- Dune Night shade is indigenous and found along the coastal dunes of South Africa, in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape.
- It grows well in soil with a good drainage, and it grows optimally in areas with naturally sandy soils.
- Dune Night shade is a hardy semi succulent creeper or shrub, with yellow-centered, purple, mauve or white flowers in midsummer to spring.
- It can be successfully utilized to cover a trellis or large, sandy, open patches in your garden.
- Dune Night shade can be grouped with other perennial, herbaceous creepers.
- It acts also as a shrub when a supporting framework, like other plant growth, is available.
- Dune Night shade only serves ornamental purposes and to help to stabilize loose ground surfaces, thus for filling the role of a secondary soil stabilizer.
- It will grow best in well-drained soil and in a full sun position.
- A slow release fertilizer containing a high potassium content added in spring will boost flowering during the summer months.
- Remove only old and dead wood from the plant when pruning.
- Pruning should be done very lightly because it does not recover well when cut back hard.
- Clematis and jasmine are good companion plants for this plant.
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