Proven Accents® Sweet Caroline Jet Black™ Sweet Potato Vine | Proven Winners®

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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.

Features

Characteristics

Plant Needs

Great foliage component plant in combinations; excellent heat tolerance and good vigor.

Foliage Interest
Deadheading Not Necessary

Photos courtesy of Proven Winners

Characteristics

Plant Type:

Annual

Height Category:

Short

Garden Height:

10 - 16 Inches

Spacing:

12 - 18 Inches

Spread:

20 - 36 Inches

Trails Up To:

30 Inches

Foliage Colors:

Purple

Foliage Shade:

As close to true Black as you can get

Habit:

Mounding Trailing

Container Role:

Filler

Tolerant to:

Heat

Plant Needs

Light Requirement:

Part Sun to Sun

Maintenance Category:

Easy

Bloom Time:

Grown for Foliage

Hardiness Zones:

11a, 11b

Water Category:

Average

Soil Fertility Requirement:

Average Soil

Uses:

Border Plant, Container, Edging Plant, Groundcover, Landscape, Mass Planting

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).

Uses Notes:

Works great in landscapes as an annual ground cover, as well as in combinations and containers by themselves. The plant is very adaptable, working in both sun and shade conditions, although 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.

Ipomoeas also make great annual groundcovers in the landscape. They love the heat and humidity (growing up to 36" a week in the Deep South), 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 Caroline SweetheartJet Black™Ipomoeabatatas'NCORNSP-021SHJB'USPP 29,378,Can 5,780

Features

Great foliage component plant in combinations; excellent heat tolerance and good vigor.

Foliage Interest
Deadheading Not Necessary

Photos courtesy of Proven Winners

Characteristics

Plant Type:

Annual

Height Category:

Short

Garden Height:

10 - 16 Inches

Spacing:

12 - 18 Inches

Spread:

20 - 36 Inches

Trails Up To:

30 Inches

Foliage Colors:

Purple

Foliage Shade:

As close to true Black as you can get

Habit:

Mounding Trailing

Container Role:

Filler

Tolerant to:

Heat

Plant Needs

Light Requirement:

Part Sun to Sun

Maintenance Category:

Easy

Bloom Time:

Grown for Foliage

Hardiness Zones:

11a, 11b

Water Category:

Average

Soil Fertility Requirement:

Average Soil

Uses:

Border Plant, Container, Edging Plant, Groundcover, Landscape, Mass Planting

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).

Uses Notes:

Works great in landscapes as an annual ground cover, as well as in combinations and containers by themselves. The plant is very adaptable, working in both sun and shade conditions, although 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.

Ipomoeas also make great annual groundcovers in the landscape. They love the heat and humidity (growing up to 36" a week in the Deep South), 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 Caroline SweetheartJet Black™Ipomoeabatatas'NCORNSP-021SHJB'USPP 29,378,Can 5,780

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Proven Accents® Sweet Caroline Jet Black™ Sweet Potato Vine | Proven Winners®

Proven Accents® Sweet Caroline Jet Black™ Sweet Potato Vine | Proven Winners®

Features

Characteristics

Plant Needs

Characteristics

Plant Needs

Light Requirement:

Uses Notes:

Maintenance Notes:

Light Requirement:

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