If only more plants grew as easily as trailing lantana, the world would have more happy gardeners. For months the extra-tough perennial has provided a carpet of lavender blooms in our garden, the ...

Scientific name: Lantana montevidensis Alba. Growth habit: A sprawling evergreen ground cover with vinelike stems growing to 2 feet tall and 4 feet wide. The leaves are thick, oval, toothed along the ...

Lantana (Lantana camara) is a tough, drought-resistant plant that brings lots of long-lasting color and wildlife to your yard. Some even say lantana repels mosquitos, but this plant also has a ...

I was thinking of planting some lantana, but read somewhere that they are invasive. Is that true? Many species, including the common Lantana camara, are highly invasive, so care should be taken when ...

Question: I have found some purple trailing lantana on our land. (This land has never been inhabited, as far as I know of.) This is not one of the yellow/pink or yellow/red native varieties. Is this ...

BIG COLOR, little water, lots of butterflies. How does that sound? That’s the story of lantana in a nutshell. But I’m famous for verbosely pontificating on the attributes of plants whenever I have an ...

Every longtime gardener has a list of tough flowering perennials they consult when they need a dependable plant. My criteria for selecting the plants on this list are simple: They must be “tough,” ...