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Sweet Caroline Upside™ Key Lime Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine

Sweet Caroline Upside™ Key Lime Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine

Price: $10.99

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This plant is on pre-order, meaning if you order it now, it won't ship until spring/summer of 2025 based on your growing zone.

Proven Winners is constantly working to refine and improve their offerings for the North American garden and to the nursery industry in using the best in new plant and production materials.

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Features

Characteristics

Plant Needs

Great foliage component plant in combinations; excellent heat tolerance and good vigor. This variety features a unique climbing habit that is a twist on the usually trailing plant. Even with the climbing habit, the plant also trails nicely from the pot as well. It is unlike any sweet potato vine you've ever seen!

  • Award Winner
  • Foliage Interest
  • Heat Tolerant
  • Deadheading Not Necessary

Characteristics

Plant Type:

Annual

Height Category:

Tall

Garden Height:

36 - 72 Inches

Spread:

18 - 36 Inches

Trails Up To:

36 Inches

Foliage Colors:

Green

Foliage Shade:

Chartreuse

Habit:

Climbing

Container Role:

Thriller

Uses Notes:

Works great in landscapes as an annual vine, as well as in combinations grown as a thriller on a trellis and in containers by themselves.  The plant is very adaptable, working in both sun and shade conditions, atlhough the colors are deeper and brighter in full sun than they are in shadier environments where colors are tinged with more green.

Maintenance Notes:

Ipomoeas are great additions to combination planters, but they can sometimes overwhelm less vigorous plants. If you are like me you can let your combination plants duke it out Darwinian style, however, if you prefer to keep a more balanced look to your combination planters, you can cut back or remove stems at any time.

These Ipomoeas also make great annual vines for a trellis or to make a teepee for fun. They love the heat and humidity, cooler temperatures and low humidity cause them to stay more compact.

While Sweet Potatoes all come from the same parent material out of Southeast Asia, there is a big difference between the Sweet Potato you buy in the store and the tubers produced by the Sweet Caroline and the Illusion plants. Commercial sweet potatoes have been bred for over 100 years selecting for those with the best sugar to starch content (hence the name SWEET Potato), the ornamental have been bred to produce good leaves and no tubers, though they do form, they are composed of almost pure starch and no sugar; making them a poor choice for eating. So yes you can eat the tubers, but don't expect anyone to come back for seconds! Also always be careful when eating any ornamental plant unless you know how it was grown, and if pesticides or fungicides were used on it before you got it; a tuber is a storage root, and yes they store chemical as well as starch.

An application of fertilizer or compost on garden beds and regular fertilization of plants in pots will help ensure the best possible performance.

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Plant Needs

Light Requirement:

Part Sun to Sun

Maintenance Category:

Easy

Bloom Time:

Grown for Foliage

Hardiness Zones:

11a, 11b

Water Category:

Average

Uses:

Container, Groundcover, Landscape, Mass Planting, Specimen or Focal Point

Light Requirement:

The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).

Great foliage component plant in combinations; excellent heat tolerance and good vigor. This variety features a unique climbing habit that is a twist on the usually trailing plant. Even with the climbing habit, the plant also trails nicely from the pot as well. It is unlike any sweet potato vine you've ever seen!

  • Award Winner
  • Foliage Interest
  • Heat Tolerant
  • Deadheading Not Necessary

Plant Type:

Annual

Height Category:

Tall

Garden Height:

36 - 72 Inches

Spread:

18 - 36 Inches

Trails Up To:

36 Inches

Foliage Colors:

Green

Foliage Shade:

Chartreuse

Habit:

Climbing

Container Role:

Thriller

Uses Notes:

Works great in landscapes as an annual vine, as well as in combinations grown as a thriller on a trellis and in containers by themselves.  The plant is very adaptable, working in both sun and shade conditions, atlhough the colors are deeper and brighter in full sun than they are in shadier environments where colors are tinged with more green.

Maintenance Notes:

Ipomoeas are great additions to combination planters, but they can sometimes overwhelm less vigorous plants. If you are like me you can let your combination plants duke it out Darwinian style, however, if you prefer to keep a more balanced look to your combination planters, you can cut back or remove stems at any time.

These Ipomoeas also make great annual vines for a trellis or to make a teepee for fun. They love the heat and humidity, cooler temperatures and low humidity cause them to stay more compact.

While Sweet Potatoes all come from the same parent material out of Southeast Asia, there is a big difference between the Sweet Potato you buy in the store and the tubers produced by the Sweet Caroline and the Illusion plants. Commercial sweet potatoes have been bred for over 100 years selecting for those with the best sugar to starch content (hence the name SWEET Potato), the ornamental have been bred to produce good leaves and no tubers, though they do form, they are composed of almost pure starch and no sugar; making them a poor choice for eating. So yes you can eat the tubers, but don't expect anyone to come back for seconds! Also always be careful when eating any ornamental plant unless you know how it was grown, and if pesticides or fungicides were used on it before you got it; a tuber is a storage root, and yes they store chemical as well as starch.

An application of fertilizer or compost on garden beds and regular fertilization of plants in pots will help ensure the best possible performance.

Sweet CarolineUpside™Key LimeIpomoeabatatas'NCORNSP-028SCKL'USPP 35,702,Can PBRAF

Light Requirement:

Part Sun to Sun

Maintenance Category:

Easy

Bloom Time:

Grown for Foliage

Hardiness Zones:

11a, 11b

Water Category:

Average

Uses:

Container, Groundcover, Landscape, Mass Planting, Specimen or Focal Point

Light Requirement:

The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).

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