Description
Abutilon are a huge group of plants which comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors. Blushing Belle has soft maple shaped leaves with numerous large, pink, bell shape flowers. It is extremely generous with its blooms, and will flower non-stop, even in the dreary winter months making it a perfect houseplant.
While many Abutilon are large lanky plants, upright plants, this particular selection is not. It is a beautiful semi-trailing dwarf variety that maintains its compact shape. It also responds well to pruning allowing you to easily maintain it to a desired size.
Abutilon is an evergreen perennial in warm climates, and can be easily grown as an outdoor annual or a houseplant in colder climates. It isn’t picky about its environment as long as it receives plenty of water and filtered light. It is suited for both container culture or planting in the ground.
Because of its leaf and flower shape, Abutilon is known by many different names, they include flowering maple, parlor maple, Indian mallow, Chinese bellflower, and Chinese Lantern.
You will receive 1 Abutilon starter plant in 2.5″ pot for each item added to the cart. An example of starter plants is included in the photos. The plants are well rooted and are ready to be potted into a larger container.
Hardiness zone: 9
What does hardiness zone 9 mean?
It means that Abutilon are not cold tolerant and require protection from freezing temperatures. If you are growing them outdoors, bring them inside before it starts frosting. While they will tolerate a light frost continual cold temperatures will kill them.
Not sure what your hardiness zone is?
Check out the USDA Interactive Zone Map to find out!
Looking for a trailing variety or variegated foliage?
Check out Abutilon ‘Variegated Chinese Lantern’ which is a fantastic ‘spiller’ plant with variegated foliage.
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