New Gold Lantana Live Plant Set of 2, 4-6″ Tall, Yellow Flowers, Attracts Pollinators

Overview

Introduce brilliant, continuous color to your outdoor spaces with the New Gold Lantana live plant. This offering includes two healthy starter plants, each measuring 4–6 inches tall, ready to bring life and vibrancy to your garden. The ‘New Gold’ variety of Lantana camara is celebrated for its prolific clusters of golden-yellow flowers that bloom tirelessly from spring through fall. Known for its exceptional hardiness, this plant thrives in challenging conditions, making it an ideal choice for gardeners seeking bold, long-lasting beauty with minimal effort. Its cheerful disposition and abundant nectar naturally draw in beneficial pollinators like butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds, transforming any garden, patio, or container into a lively ecological haven. This New Gold Lantana live plant is an excellent choice for those looking for a resilient and attractive flowering shrub.

Key Benefits

The ‘New Gold’ Lantana offers a multitude of advantages for both novice and experienced gardeners, combining aesthetic appeal with practical resilience. Discover why this plant is a must-have for your outdoor sanctuary:

• Vibrant, Continuous Blooms: Enjoy a spectacular display of bright yellow flower clusters that bloom continuously from spring through fall, ensuring your garden remains colorful for most of the year.
• Attracts Pollinators: This pollinator friendly plant is a magnet for butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds, enriching your garden’s biodiversity and natural charm.
• Drought & Heat Tolerant: Exceptionally hardy, the ‘New Gold’ Lantana thrives in hot, dry conditions, making it an excellent choice for water-wise gardening and challenging climates. This makes it a truly drought tolerant Lantana.
• Low Maintenance: Requires minimal care once established, allowing you to enjoy its beauty without constant fuss. It’s a fantastic low maintenance flowering plant option.
• Versatile Landscaping: Perfect for a variety of uses, including containers, patio planters, garden beds, borders, and hanging baskets, adapting seamlessly to different design needs.
• Deer Resistant: Its foliage is generally unappealing to deer, offering an advantage in areas where deer browse can be an issue.
• Long Blooming Season: Provides extended color and interest from the warmer months well into autumn, outperforming many other flowering plants.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your New Gold Lantana live plant is straightforward, especially given its hardy nature. To ensure your plants flourish and provide abundant blooms, follow these simple guidelines. For optimal growth, plant your Lantana in a location that receives full sun, meaning at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight per day. While it is highly adaptable, well-draining soil is crucial to prevent root rot. If planting in containers, use a good quality potting mix designed for flowering plants. For garden beds, amend heavy clay soils with organic matter to improve drainage.

Water moderately, allowing the top inch or two of soil to dry out between waterings. Once established, this drought tolerant Lantana is quite resilient and can tolerate periods of dryness, but consistent watering during prolonged dry spells will encourage more prolific blooming. Fertilize sparingly; a balanced slow-release fertilizer in spring is usually sufficient. Over-fertilization can promote foliage growth at the expense of flowers. Prune lightly throughout the season to remove spent blooms and encourage new growth, and perform a more significant trim in early spring to shape the plant and remove any winter damage. This Lantana care guide will help you achieve the best results.

The ‘New Gold’ Lantana thrives in USDA hardiness zones 8-11, preferring warmer climates. In cooler zones, it can be grown as an annual or brought indoors during winter. Protect from frost. Pests and diseases are rarely an issue for this robust plant, making it a truly low maintenance flowering plant. Watch out for occasional whiteflies or spider mites, which can typically be managed with insecticidal soap if they become problematic.

Size & Details

This offering includes two (2) healthy New Gold Lantana live plant starter plants. Each plant measures approximately 4–6 inches tall at the time of shipment. These are young, vigorous plants that will establish quickly in your garden. They are shipped bare-root with a small amount of soil to protect their roots during transit, meaning they will not arrive in pots. We recommend planting them as soon as they arrive to minimize stress and encourage rapid growth. While these are starter plants, they are well on their way to becoming the vibrant, mature plants depicted in full bloom in our photos.

The ‘New Gold’ Lantana is a fast-growing shrub that can reach a mature size of 1-3 feet tall and 3-6 feet wide, forming a beautiful mounding or spreading habit. Expect continuous blooms from late spring through fall once the plant is established and actively growing. Its vigorous nature means it will quickly fill out containers, borders, or garden beds, providing a stunning visual impact.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big will the New Gold Lantana grow? A: Once mature, the ‘New Gold’ Lantana typically grows to be 1-3 feet tall and spreads 3-6 feet wide, forming an attractive mounding habit. These starter plants are 4-6 inches tall upon arrival.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: The New Gold Lantana live plant is primarily an outdoor plant, thriving in full sun. In USDA zones 8-11, it can be grown as a perennial. In colder zones, it is often grown as an annual or overwintered indoors.
• Q: How much sunlight does this drought tolerant Lantana need? A: For the best blooms and strongest growth, ‘New Gold’ Lantana requires full sun, which means at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight per day.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: Yes, ‘New Gold’ Lantana is known for being a very low maintenance flowering plant. It’s drought-tolerant, heat-resistant, and relatively pest-free, making it an excellent choice for busy gardeners or beginners.
• Q: What condition will the plants arrive in? A: You will receive two healthy 4-6 inch ‘New Gold’ Lantana starter plants. They are shipped bare-root with some soil for protection and should be planted promptly upon arrival.
• Q: How long until it blooms? A: As starter plants, they will need some time to establish. With proper care and sufficient sunlight, you can expect them to begin producing their vibrant yellow blooms during their first growing season, from late spring through fall.
• Q: Will this pollinator friendly plant attract bees and butterflies? A: Absolutely! The ‘New Gold’ Lantana is highly attractive to butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds, making it a wonderful addition if you want to support local pollinator populations.
• Q: What USDA zones does this Lantana care guide apply to? A: This plant thrives in USDA hardiness zones 8-11 as a perennial. In zones colder than 8, it is typically grown as an annual or brought indoors for the winter.
• Q: Can I grow this plant in a container? A: Yes, ‘New Gold’ Lantana is an excellent choice for containers and patio planters. Ensure the container has good drainage and is large enough to accommodate its mature size.
• Q: Is this plant safe for pets? A: For ornamental use only – not for consumption. Keep away from pets and children.