Calibrachoa
Calibrachoa
A trailing favourite for hanging baskets, window boxes and pots, covering itself in small flowers from spring into fall without deadheading, since new growth quickly hides the spent blooms. It takes summer heat in stride in full sun.
- Mature size
- 10 in × 1.5 ft
- 0.3 × 0.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 2a–11a
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part sun
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- May–Oct
Calibrachoa at its mature size
A mature Calibrachoa grows 6 to 12 inches tall and 12 to 24 inches wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Proven Winners.
Through the year
What Calibrachoa looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Below ground · Nov–Apr
Not in the ground: planted after the last frost, pulled after the first.
In leaf · May–Oct
Low mound covered in small purple and yellow petunia-like flowers.
Growing Calibrachoa
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, the desert Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and California.
- Native to
- South America and Central America
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Calibrachoa, that’s about 1.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Calibrachoa in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.