Pakistan Gardening Forum

The first to start are Pentas, I planted them in half of the 11 feet long bed, now I will completed the bed with these only, excellent bloomers and attract a lot of butterflies:

Beautiful pentas unfortunately mine didnot survive the winter. Is it possible to create new colors of pentas with open pollination??

mine didn't produced seeds last year, despite hand-pollination.. I have two local varieties as well which are propagated through cuttings right now I have eight colors 2 shades of pink, 2 shades of purple, red, white and faint peach color.. the best part is they bloom heavily in a flush, then take rest until new buds are formed.. so during blooming there are countless flowers..

Yes I had them last year in containers they bloom heavily mine were probated through seeds

lovely

it would be lovely if you could share long shots of your garden.......

Lovely flowers..... will they tolerate islamabad climate?

I tried but the seeds did not germinate.

Arif sb Pentas flowers in our summers but can not tolerate the winters.i used to plant Pentas Fresh Look but it do not bloom like it does in Karachi.

Arif sir from past experience it's better to buy small plants then planting seeds I had 50 % germination plus they ask for care in Lahore