Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

[Izhar]

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:

[AhmadIrfan]

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

[Izhar]

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..

[AhmadIrfan]

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

[Farhan Ahmed]

lovely

[Farhan Ahmed]

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

[zeeshanuddin]

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

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

I tried but the seeds did not germinate.

[UMARKHANMARDAN]

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.

[AhmadIrfan]

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