Lantana propagation
How can I propagate it?
Lantana should be propagated in mid-summer and fall from greenwood or semi- ripe stem cuttings. Make 3 inch cuttings off non-flowering shoots. Strip off any leaves that come in contact with rooting medium and the
soil. Dip the ends in a hormone rooting medium and insert in a moist, well drained, soil made of peat moss and sand or perlite. Cuttings also root well in rockwood plugs. Cover the container with a clear plastic bag and keep in a spot with bright filtered light. It should root in 2-3 weeks. When you see new growth emerging uncover your container and place it in brighter light and start to lightly fertilize every 2 weeks to promote healthy new growth. When the plants have about 2-3 inches of new growth, pinch the tips to encourage bushy growth. The following spring repot plants in individual pots. Young rooted plants usually bloom more profusely than older plants.
Lantana can also be started from seeds sown early in the spring. Plant them in late winter. Germination for lantana is 42-60 days and seeds should be planted 1/8″ deep in peaty soil. Another trick is to soak the seeds in hot water for 24 hrs. before planting.
Seed grown plants may have a variation in color and quality of the original plant. Newer varieties of hybrids produce less seeds which may be sterile.
The above method of propagation may be used on many other plants.
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My lantana has white spots on the leaves, which are very leathery. Any suggestions?
Do you need to remove the berries after the blooms have faded to encourage additional blooms?
Are lantana poisonous??
Tammy ( spittle_tammy@bellsouth.net / )
My son rubbed up against a Lantana plant that was planted outside a store establishment, and broke out in a rash.. It almost looked like poison Ivy. Could someone please tell me why this plant would do this?
Something is attacking my lantana. The leaves are lossing their color and wiltering, with black or burnt – looking lplaces around the edges. This the second season this has happened. Help
I find it difficult to believe anyone would want to plant/propagate lantana; it’s one of the worst pasture pests we have in Hawaii. If you want to kill it, it is sensitive to Glyphosate. Nothing else works…
I was fertilizing my lawn with weed & feed and threw some in my lantana. It wilted a bit and the flowers are now gone (one week later). Anyway I can revive it? Will it come back?
I asked for help (7/2/2005) about having used weed and feed in my lantana. The additional watering you advised worked great! This was, by far, it’s best summer ever… over 4 feet in height and very bushie. Not looking forward to winter and having to cut it back.
PRUNING LANTANA
I was just wondering if & when the best time is to trim/prune lantana , & the best method to do so
denise ( antman2@earthlink.net / ) (IP: 24.110.42.234 )
Scott commnded on 8-14-05 about how and when to cut back lantana? I live in Florida and I went a little overboard hedging my lantana. Now it looks like an eyescore. The branches and brown and straggly but there seems to be some green growth coming on them. Some say I should cut it all the way to the ground. I am afraid to do so because I want it to grow back quickly. What should I do? I have a purple and a yellow lantana growing together, and I don’t expect any cold weather until after December. Confused and desperate!
denise
I commended on 8-19-05 about been desperate and confused about cutting my lantana back just a little too far. Well, I took your advise and left it alone and low and behold my lantana is growing like a weed. I must share that I that experimented with liquid ironnite and it really made a difference. the lantana is healthy and flowers are beginning to bloom. Try using it I works ! Denise from Florida
Thanks for your comment Denise!!
ALISON SMITH
WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO TRIM MY LANTANA IN NORTH CAROLNA
Dennis commented on 3-28-05 about white spot on his lantana. I also am having that problem on New Gold Lantana. How do I fix this problem?
I just want to know what is the life cycle of lantana?
Winterover lantana
I live in Colo.—cold winters. Can I bring in potted lantana and put it in a crawl space which is dark and moderate temperature?
I have several colors and sizes of lantana that did well this year in zone 7. Now they all have berries, from new to wrinkled and black. What would the optimal time be to pick these berries for planting next year; new and green/red, or dry and black?
thanks ahead of time for the reply
I live in Hawaii and hired professionals to plant Lantana in pots along my driveway where it would receive full sun most of the day. It is watered automatically twice a day. It did well for about 2 months but now I’ve noticed that the leaves are turning yellow and the buds have turned black. I don’t see flowers anymore. Any ideas what could be the problem?
Hi,
Thanks for your help! As you had suspected, it was the overwatering that was killing my plants! I stopped watering, let it dry out and soon enough, I saw flowers! Not even a month has passed and there are flowers again. Mahalo (Thanks!)
-cherie
You are welcome!
I noticed several leaves have turned distinctly yellow with brown tips, and have gone crispy. This is occuring on three of my four lantanas (the red/yellow-blossom ones — the purple-blossom one is unaffected). It isn’t bad yet, but I’m afraid something might be wrong. I live in Phoenix and water them about every other day.
My sunset lantana looks just as it did last year except some of the blooms will come in a pale funny color. Is this normal? Can I fix it?
Does Lantana like alkaline or Acidic soil? Does it need iron if the leaves are yellowing? I live in DFW Texas area. 3 out of 7 Lantanas are getting yellow leaves. I have done Miracle Grow 2 times in the past 2 weeks…blooms and size of plants have doubled. WE are getting TONS of rain here though. Not sure it the yellowing is due to all the rain or if they need more acid or iron?
I can’t seem to get the right amount of watering. Very hot during the day and when I notice my lantana, it looks dead. Isn’t it drought resistant? Or is that only when planted in the ground? When I water, then it turns yellow and brown. What am I missing?
LANTANA FROM SEEDS
I live in central New Jersey. Each year I spend a lot of money on lantana. How can I perserve them from year to year? Will they flourish indoors? How should I handle the seeds and when should they be planted & how?
Hi, I also live in Phoenix and have had yellow/orange lantana bordering my front yard for at least 15 years. I cut it back every year after the frost and it grows back beautiful. This year, however, all my lantana is dying. It has always been watered the same way, when the sprinklers are on and it shoots over them. Any suggestions? I am not doing anything different this year. We had a very hard freeze this year however.
In the spring my lantanas burst forth in bloom.These blossoms last a long time but when they fall off, the plants don’t bloom anymore that year.I thought lantana was a repeat bloomer.What do I need to do?
Someone gave me a lantana plant about eight months ago when it was just a tiny sprout — they had no idea what it was, and I didn’t either, so I just tossed it in a reasonably-sized pot and let it do its thing. I finally managed to identify it the other day, and… my poor plant doesn’t look the way it’s apparently supposed to. It’s about a foot and a half tall, with a woody stem up to the last six inches, where it has big full leaves. It seems healthy and happy, but lantanas are supposed to be *bushes*, right? Is there anything I can do at this point to turn my Lantana Tree into something resembling what it’s supposed to look like?
My lantana is huge I want to bring it indoors for the winter. Do I need to dig it up and place it in a pot and keep it in the basement? OR can I propagate it to make new starts for next Spring? OR can I do both?
My neighbor gave me 4 white lantana plants that are potted. I live in middle Tennessee and they have suffered through a few frosty nights before I got them. The stems are brown and the pot is filled with dead leaves. All the leaves on the plant still are crispy. There are dried up berries on the tips of each one. Can these plants be saved as they look totally dead? Should I just pick the berries, toss the current plants and start over, prune it back to 6 inches above or leave it as it is and hope for the best?
We live in LA, lantana loves it here. We have one large bush that lives in semi-shade. Its leaves have a lot of brown spots on them, though the plant keeps growing and flowering. No nearby plant has these spots. We never fertilize it, the soil is sandy. It gets sprinkled twice a day for 2 minutes, but it had these spots before we got the sprinklers. Any ideas? We haven’t had good luck transplanting such large lantana – they really get shocked badly.
PRUNING LANTANA
hi i live in las vegas and i work in apartments all of my lantanas are dying/dead they are just sticks is there anyway to get them back and if so how? watering,feed, a good kick in the ass i just dont know
I have both yellow and purple lantana planted in the same area. they get full sun and water as needed. my yellow plant produces loads of flowers but my purple plants on produce a few….very few. my favorite color is purple…..
I have had a lantana under a tree for many years and now there seems to be a lot of bush weeds growing thoughout the entire plant. What should I use to kill these weeds? It seem that pulling them out is impossible. Do you have any suggestions that would not harm the plant. I have a lot of empty spots from pulling the weeds out, but now all that grows back is more weeds HELP.
1. DOES MIRACLE GROW STOP LANTANA FROM BLOOMING?
2. WHAT DO THE BERRIES YOU TALK ABOUT LOOK LIKE?
I noticed my lantana leaves are being eaten away by some sort of bug, and it appears they are these tiny, tiny black things on the leaves that are loosely attached. Are they bugs of some sort? Not only are the leaves being eaten, it now is not blooming quite as much.
If it is a bug, what can I do to control them?
Planting time for lantana
We live in Zone 7 (West Texas) and need to know the best time to plant lantana in the yard.
Thanks
I live in Arizona and have some Lantana let’s say 50 on one zone and the the average weather right now is 106 degrees and like every 4th lantana is stressed or dead. what would be causing this?
I have some beautiful lantana growing in concrete planters in full AZ sun. As I was trimming the other day, I found that a HUGE white fungus had surrounded the base of the plant. It is about 8-10″ in diameter, and 3+ inches high. I removed what I could of it, but how do I get rid of it for good? Thank you.
Hi Kathi
Something in the soil is decomposing and the fungus is thriving on it. You may need to replace some of the old soil to freshen up the container.
I love growing the circus-y colors of Lantana here in central NJ. It is one beautiful summer flower the voracious deer will not eat! I am anxious to try overwintering a few plants in our cellar this winter. The grower I purchased many rooted cuttings from this Spring says there are mixed results when trying to start from seed..
The branches on my lantana have very neat rows of white fuzzy dots. I’m having no luck identifying them. Any idea?
Thanks
Dianne
My potted lantana is full of green leaves but has stopped blooming. It has tiny black shriveled buds where blooms should be. It almost looks as if something stung the buds before they were able to fully develop. I live in College Station, TX, and the plant was in full sun from early morning until just past noon, consequently it required watering every morning or it would wilt. I did fertilize it months ago thinking that that was the problem before I read your website. I think that it may have leaf miners to add to its problems. What is a safe spray to use for insect infestation? Do you have other suggestions? Thank you, Connie
I live in the Philadelphia suburb area and I have a beautiful Lantana that I am worried will not make it through the night tonight. Is there anything I can do to protect it from the cold? Would placing a sheet over it help? Should I put a heat source of some sort under the sheet? Please hurry.
Lantana watering problem
I live in Hawaii and have owned a lantana in a pot for 18 months. My neighbors have a lot of success with it. Mine was on a drip system but out in the open for sun. In early fall, it started turning brown and stopped blooming. I sprayed for bugs and gave it fertilizer and it came back. Not so much blooms but it was all green. Then, I went on Xmas vacation for 8 days and put it further out in the open to be watered by the rains. It is rainy season now; and it did storm. (Another reason for taking it off drip is my drip timer needs replacement). I came home and all my other plants were healthy, and well watered but the lantana was all brown and dead looking. Do you think I can resuscitate it? What should I try? What do you think caused this? Thanks.
When I bought my Lantana plant the tag said good to 20 degrees F. It did not get lower than 28 this winter but it looks like it froze back. Any thoughts? It is too early to tell if it will recover. Thank you
I want my lantana to grow to 5-6 feet. If I don’t prune it at all this early spring, will that help? And, if I must cut “dead wood” how do I test exactly where the dead wood is? (scrape the bark to check for green stuff?)
Thanks for you page, I re-read it every year!
Lantana from seed
I am not quite sure how or when to plant lantana seeds.
Grow Lantana from seed
Hello,
I just now sowed some Lantana seed I purchased from Thompson & Morgan. I soaked them overnight in warm water. When I went to sow them I noticed that only a few had sunk to the bottom of the container. Not sure if this is a viability problem or not. I sifted some fine compost on top with a sifter and set them on a heat mat with a thermostat set to 70. I have read that they need high light to germinate- is this true? Thanks and happy gardening!
My wife bought a bunch of lantana’s last year. We’re in central Florida. They say we had a colder than normal winter. The plants look completely dead, except there looks like new growth coming at the roots. Do I completely cut them back to the new growth? Thanks…..
Deadhead lantana
Do I dead-head the spent flowers of my lantana? I have the purple, yellow, orange and the beautiful white lantana. The white appears to look like “snow” around our screened patio…beautiful!!! Thank you for your time…sara
We just bought some bandana cherry lantana toplant in the front of our beds. They will get full GA sun all afternoon. Does lantana spread like a groundcover or just grow like a bush?
I live in Ohio. I dug up and brought my lantana into the garage last fall. Now I have 6 to 8 inch stems sprouting all over the plants. Should I pinch back this new growth when I plant in the the garden? (We had a rain/snow mix the other day so I am waiting a few weeks to plant).
Lantana not blooming
I planted lantana last summer and it had lots and lots of blooms. In late November I cut the Lantana back to the ground (I did not know I was not supposed to do this). Now the plant is green and growing but it does not have a single bloom on it. It gets 6 hours of full sun everyday. I live in Georgia and we have had a good bit of rain lately. Do you think this could be causing my lantana not to bloom? If so, what can I do to help the plant bloom.
I live in AZ and just planted some lantana in my front yard. It is now 3 days later and some of my plants look wilted. Could I be over watering them? Any suggestions? Thanks!
Lauren
I live in Phoenix, and am looking at planting lantanas to add some color to my front yard in a home I recently purchased. I don’t have an irrigation system in my front yard. For lantanas (probably 3 or 4 of them, spaced apart from each other), do I need to have an irrigation system before planting? (I may add one later, but right now, working on other projects in the home that take priority) Or can I water them by hand once or twice a day? Additionally, with our weather here starting to heat up (the next 10 days will be mostly sunny – sunny and temperatures between 97-102 every day), is it too late to plant with the sunshine/heat? Do I need to wait until the fall or winter to plant? If not, any other tips when planting? Thanks in advance!
I live in Berkeley, CA and have lots of lantana doing well in the ground. About 3 weeks ago I placed 2 white lantana in a large pot in full sun with a drip line to the pot. The previously bright white flowers are now somewhat grey and dull but still on the plant. The leaves look fine. These lantana in the pot are getting the same amount of water that the white lantana plants in the ground are getting, but in a large pot and not the ground. Any ideas as to why the noticeable dulling of the flowers?
Thanks very much.
I was so proud of the beautiful yellow lantana I planted yesterday. This morning I could not wait to show off to my husband. I couldn’t believe my eyes….something had methodicaly snipped off the stems to an inch above the ground. Does anyone know what critter is that could be so cruel? What do I do to prevent this being repeated.
I’ve had my lantana over 12 years and each year they have bloomed beautifully. They are the purple variety. This year they are not blooming. I have not cut them back yet or fertilized them yet. What to do?
I have what some may call the non hearty annual Lantana. Sorry, I do not have the name but it is compact and very dense.
The garden shop told me I may get them to survive by cutting them down over winter and I did. I live in the Atlanta area.
This year 3 of them sprouted back and they are filled with lush green foliage but not one flower in sight. I planted several other new ones and they are doing great. The 3 from last year are now about the same size as the new ones but not one bud or flower.
Any ideas?
Thanks Bob
I live in eest Texas in El Paso where the lantana seems to be a favorite plant for garden beds and they apparently do excellent here as I see them flourishing everywhere. So i decided they would be a beautiful splash of color for my bed, BUT when I bought some Lantanas from Lowes, they immediately look like they are dying. This is my second attempt and took alot of care preparing the soil with no avail. When I see wilting I don’t know what to think because I know they are drought tolerant and so I don’t know if I should water them and how much? What is too much? Can they be revived? How?
i have a lantana tree. I would like to make some cuttings into some other lantanna trees: what can i do to make this possible my gold n orange tree is almost 6 ft tall, very aromatic and full.
I live in coastal North Carolina and have lantana that have been growing for over ten years that have spread out to cover a large area. Is it possible to sub-divide some of these plants so I can start growing mature plants in another location? If so, when is the best time to of the year to move them.
I have few yellow lantana and a few purple the yellow are starting to turn brown and looks like a white fly and the flowers are being eaten what can i do to get ride of the pests. they only attack the yellow and not the purple ones.
We have had the same yellow lantana in our garden for 10 years. We prune it back at the end of every winter. It blooms beautifully and gets big. However, the last few years it blooms until July then stops and the leaves get stiff and dry. We have actually cut it back in July and it has grown back by the end of the summer and flowered again. Why is this happening? The Lantana is in a wall, gets plenty of sun and not a lot of water. It has never been fertilized.
What other plants are best to plant with a Lantana bush?
Lantana winter dieback
I live in Southaven, MS, I plant 12-15 plants each year in my flower beds. Each year I mulch the flower beds and cover the lantana roots with extra mulch and cut the plants back, about 6 inches from the root. Last year 1 plant came back and this year, 1 plant came back. Please tell me what I’m doing wrong. I love lantana, but I’m exhausted with re-planting and buying so many plants each year.
I live on the Outer Banks of NC. Lantana line my driveway. I cut them back to the ground every spring. The come out and grow like weeds. They bloom aplenty. Then all of a sudden they stop blooming. The plants continue to grow but without many flowers. This has happened two years in a row. Previously they bloomed all summer.
Any suggestions?
No berries and no fertilizer. We did, however, get three inches of rain in a twelve hour period about a month ago
I wish the bushes did have berries so I could harvest, dry and plant them.
I was either told or read somewhere that you should NOT cut lantana back in the fall because water could get in the stems, freeze and kill the plant. True or not true?
My lantana leaves have turned a white-grayish color and are not blooming. I am not sure what is wrong with them and they were recently planted. I am on the coast of south carolina and we have had lots of rain lately but, that is all the water they have been receiving. Any ideas?
I HAVE MY LANTANA IN A HANGING BASKET.BLOOMING FOR 3 MONTHS *SO FAR* I WANT TO SLIP IT AND GROW ANOTHER.CAN I USE A PEET PELET.AND ROOTING COMPOUND?THANKS aquartermain@msn.com
I live in New Mexico and this is my first time with lantanas. I have planted quite a few and am wondering about the berries, after I pull them off what do I do with them until I plant in the winter? Do I store them in an airtight container? Leave them out somewhere to dry? Looking for any advice. thanks
We live in North Central Texas and have several lantana plants in our flower beds, they do not have berries, just yellow blooms. They are big and beautiful. When should we prune them for winter?
can lantana be started from the seeds after blooms are finished?
Color change
I have deep red and yellow lantanas.Each year the red gets less and less red. This year there is almost no red.They are almost all yellow.What has happened to my red color? I also had red canas next to the lantanas and they turned orange and then yellow.I also have yellow cannas near by.Does my soil need something to keep red flowers RED.
Too much rain
I have 11 Lantana plants in a bed around my house and they have all died. Usually this time of year they are beautiful. I noticed yesterday that the blooms are gone and the entire plant is brown. I live in Alabama and we have had a month of constant rain and no sunshine.
Could this be what killed the plants?
Winterover lantana indoors
Hello! I live in lower Michigan and I have a 2-3 year old Lantana tree that needs to come in for the winter. Should I prune it now (September/October), and, if so, can I cut it back drastically to about 4-6 inches of stem for a bushier plant, or would this kill it?
Seed starter mix
I’ve read all your questions and answers and they were very helpful.
Could you please be exact on the soil/composition used when planting the seeds in late winter?
Many thanks!
I live in Virginia and the winters are bad so I have never tried to keep a Lantana over the winter. This is my first year to try. I brought it into my basement where I have grow lights but it has lost all of its leaves and appears dead.I have watered it to much I’m sure about twice a week. Do you think it will come back next year and should I cut it back and put it in a dark place. I don’t think my basement gets below 55,maybe 60.
I planted the yellow hybrid lantana in a border along our driveway (in full sun) this past summer. (We are on the Gulf in Central Florida) They did beautifully for weeks, grew like weeds, bloomed constantly. But now some are looking faded, getting crispy brown/black spots on them. You mentioned a fungus in an earlier posting but not how to fight it. I don’t want to lose my gorgeous border.
When I planted the border, I put down lots of newspaper around the plants, then landscaping weed barrier over that, then mulch. I only watered them enough to get them started as they are happier in dry conditions. Will they respond to any kind of an anti fungal treatment? Please help me save my border….
Pruning lantana
I’m a bit confused after reading through all the questions and answers. I have a huge potted Lantana that I plan to
winter over in the garage (E North Carolina). I’d like to cut it back before storing… would it be better to wait until early Spring? Appreciate your time.
I am trying to propagate some lantana which no longer seems to be available. I cut off about 3 inches from the end of a cane, stripped the leaves below the ground, and left about 3 on the part above ground. Is this correct? Also, have put them in small pots with drain holes. Is this OK?
Your directions say that when new growth appears it should be fertilized. With what??
(I’m being optimistic in even asking)
Thanks for the advise on the anti fungal treatments. The soil where the lantanas are planted, is sand. It drains really well. I did go a little overboard with the newspaper and then landscape weed barrier just because I hate weeds so much. We had put in new sod right around the same time we put in the border at the edge of the lawn and of course, we watered the lawn with sprinklers to get it going…that is probably what got the fungus started. We don’t water much normally. It’s been a couple months since I have run the sprinklers. Just hit the sod with some hand watering now and then if it’s really dry and hot. I could rip out the newspaper if need be. I could do it without disturbing the plants.
Thanks again for the help. I will report back on it later.