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SolarPower™ Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine

Ipomoea batatas 'Balsolalimart'

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SolarPower Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas 'Balsolalimart') at Wallitsch Garden Center

SolarPower™ Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine foliage

SolarPower™ Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine foliage

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SolarPower Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas 'Balsolalimart') at Wallitsch Garden Center

SolarPower™ Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine

SolarPower™ Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine

(Photo courtesy of NetPS Plant Finder)

Height:  12 inches

Spacing:  30 inches

Sunlight:  full sun  partial shade 

Hardiness Zone:  (annual)

Group/Class:  Solar Power Series

Brand:  Ball

Description:

A densely branched variety that holds its shape and color in landscapes and mixed containers

Ornamental Features

SolarPower™ Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine is primarily valued in the garden for its spreading and trailing habit of growth. Its attractive lobed leaves remain lime green in color with distinctive red veins and tinges of chartreuse throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

SolarPower™ Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine is a dense herbaceous annual with a trailing habit of growth, eventually spilling over the edges of hanging baskets and containers. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant. The flowers of this plant may actually detract from its ornamental features, so they can be removed as they appear. It has no significant negative characteristics.

SolarPower™ Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine is recommended for the following landscape applications;

  • General Garden Use
  • Groundcover
  • Container Planting
  • Hanging Baskets

Planting & Growing

SolarPower™ Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 30 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. This fast-growing annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year.

This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. You may want to keep it away from hot, dry locations that receive direct afternoon sun or which get reflected sunlight, such as against the south side of a white wall. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It can be propagated by cuttings; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

SolarPower™ Lime Heart Sweet Potato Vine is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor containers and hanging baskets. Because of its trailing habit of growth, it is ideally suited for use as a 'spiller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.

 
 
Hardiness Zone Plant Height Minimum Sunlight
Characteristics
Garden  Groundcover  Container  Basket 
Applications
Foliage Color  Texture  Plant Form 
Ornamental Features

Disclaimer - This Plant Finder tool is an online resource representing many of the varieties that we carry over the course of the season, and is intended for informational purposes only. Inventory varies seasonally, so we cannot guarantee that every plant will be in stock at all times - please contact the store directly for availability. Additionally, the Plant Finder tool does not include our entire inventory of plants, so be sure to visit our store to see varieties that may not be represented on this list.

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