Trailing lantana is also great for covering eyesores like utility boxes and wells. Since these plants can withstand high sun and drought, they can be planted up against buildings that create hot ...

Looking for the perfect plant for an empty pot or a lonely-looking corner of your California-friendly garden? Try the tough, purple-flowered, long-blooming trailing lantana. Trailing lantana is an ...

Citrus Lantana is known for its hardiness, heat tolerance, and lovely blooms. It thrives in the heat and will continue ...

Another safe lantana is L. montevidensis, trailing lantana. It has soft purple flowers and does well as a ground cover. Weeping, vinelike stems make an attractive ground cover.

Lantana is a genus of flowering perennial plants consisting of around 150 species that are native to the tropical Americas and West Africa (another good botanical case for continental drift theories).

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 ...

Trailing lavender lantana. Neil Sperry. ... The plants cover themselves with medium-purple flower heads that are somewhat smaller than those of the shrubby big sisters.

So it’s not unusual to see plant lovers doing chores ... attractively flowered plants that can help fight off mosquitoes are groundcover species such as society garlic and trailing lantana.