Description
Growing cleomes is a simple and rewarding garden adventure.
Although cleome is an annual, it often reseeds itself, making it grow year after year in the same location.Cleome or spider flower is often overlooked as a seedling in garden centers because of its nondescript, almost weedy, appearance.
However, once established in the flower garden, cleome puts on a dazzling summer flower show until frost. Its a tall, thorny-stalked annual with spider-like flower heads. When planted in groups it gives the impression of a flowering shrub.Plant Specifications
*above specification are indicative only. actual dimensions may vary by +-10%
| Common Name | Spider Flower, Rocky Mountain Beeplant, Stinking Clover |
| Maximum Reachable Height | 3 to 6 feet. |
| Flower Colour | Pink, purple, white, lavender. |
| Bloom Time | Early summer until first frost. |
| Difficulty Level | Easy. |
Planting and care
Cleome care
Plant in full sun, thinning or spacing individual plants to 1 foot apart. Plant where you wont have to brush against the stems often since many varieties have thorns.
| Sunlight | Full sun,part sun. |
| Watering | You will only need to water cleome if you are undergoing a drought. |
| Soil | Cleome flowers thrive in average garden soil. |
| Temperature | Warm and the night time temperature is well above freezing before moving outside. |
| Fertilizer | Spider flowers are light feeders, and giving them too much nitrogen results in leggy plants. Cleome dont usually require extra feeding so if you have fertile soil, no additional fertilizing will be needed. |
Cleome uses
Ornamental Use:
- Cleome flowers are excellent candidates for the back of the flower border, where their lanky stems can hide behind other plants, but their festive flower clusters can sway in the breeze above other flowering annuals
- Cleomes are also a good choice for growing in containers
- choose a large container