Pentas Live Plant — photo: Cody Hough, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pentas Live Plant — photo: Cody Hough, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Annuals

Pentas Live Plant

Zones 9a–11bLive Plant
$5.00
$7.00
$5.00
(-29%)

Pentas is the best hummingbird and butterfly magnet in the annual bed, flowering in star-clustered heads right through Alabama's hottest weeks.
Pentas Live Plant

Pot Size: 4" Pot
Quantity
Pentas Live Plant — photo: Cody Hough, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Annuals

Pentas Live Plant

$7.00 $5.00
Pentas Live Plant — photo: Cody Hough, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Annuals

Pentas Live Plant

$7.00 $5.00
Pot Size: 4" Pot
Description

This tender perennial is grown as an annual here and blooms in red, pink, lavender, and white without pause from planting until frost. It loves heat, so it hits full stride exactly when other bedding plants fade. Deadhead spent clusters to keep new flower heads coming. Shipped in a 4" Pot, well-rooted from our Lineville, Alabama nursery.

Specifications
  • Mature size: 18-24 in tall and 12-18 in wide
  • Grows best: Outdoors - Hardiness USDA 10-11
  • Pet safety: Non-toxic to cats and dogs
  • Sourcing: Nursery-grown by Wade Greens; ships healthy from our Lineville, Alabama nursery to the lower 48 states.
Care Instructions
  • Light: Full sun to light afternoon shade
  • Water: Moderate, consistent moisture
  • Soil: Wants well-drained, moderately fertile soil that does not stay wet.
  • Feeding: Use a slow-release fertilizer at planting and liquid-feed monthly for peak bloom.
Growing Zone

Hardy in zones 9a–11b. It won't take a hard freeze, so north of its range grow it in a pot and bring it in for winter.

Full colour is zones 9a–11b, where this plant is hardy in the ground. Lower 48 shown — that's where we ship. 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, via the PRISM Climate Group.

Questions & Answers

How big does it get?
18-24 in tall and 12-18 in wide

How much light does it need?
Full sun to light afternoon shade

Is it safe for pets?
Non-toxic to cats and dogs

How is it shipped?
Packed to arrive healthy and shipped from our Alabama nursery to the lower 48 states.

Shipping & Returns

Ships to all 48 contiguous states from our farm in Lineville, Alabama.

What it costs

Based on your order total: $12.95 under $35 · $16.95 to $75 · $21.95 to $125 · free over $125.

Ship days

Mondays and Tuesdays only — see below.

Getting it ready

1–3 business days to pot up, water back and pack.

Where we can't go

Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. territories, P.O. boxes, and outside the United States.

Why we only ship Mondays and Tuesdays

A plant in a dark box is on a clock. Shipping early in the week means it reaches you before the weekend instead of sitting in a warehouse from Friday to Monday. It costs us a day or two of lead time and saves a lot of plants.

Practically: an order placed Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or over the weekend goes out the following Monday. We'd rather tell you that now than let you find it in a tracking number.

How long it takes once it leaves

Typical ground transit from Lineville, Alabama after the ship day. Estimates, not guarantees — weather and carrier backlogs happen.

  • 1–2 days Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky
  • 2–3 days The rest of the Southeast and Midwest, Texas, the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast
  • 3–5 days The Plains, the Mountain West and the West Coast

Tracking is emailed the moment your box is scanned.

If something arrives unhappy

A little leaf drop or travel stress is normal and usually sorts itself out within a week or two of settling in. If a plant arrives genuinely damaged, email support@wadegreens.com within 48 hours of delivery with a photo of the plant and the box, and we'll make it right.

Plant Traits

The facts that decide whether it takes root, in the order that matters.

Sunlight

Full Sun (6+ hrs)

Six or more hours of direct sun. With less it stretches toward the light and flowering thins out.

Water

Moderate

Water when the top inch of soil is dry. Evenly damp, never standing wet.

Mature Size

Under 1 ft

Where it settles once established. Plan the spacing for this, not for the size it arrives at.

Foliage

Herbaceous

Soft-stemmed. It dies back to the ground and returns from the roots — the top going brown is the plan, not a failure.

Works As

Border & Bed · Containers & Patio

Traits

  • Long BloomingKeeps setting new buds across the season instead of one flush. Removing spent flowers keeps it making buds rather than seed.
  • Attracts PollinatorsOpen, shallow flowers with nectar a generalist bee can reach. These are the visitors that set fruit on everything else in the garden.
  • Attracts HummingbirdsTubular flowers, usually red or orange, holding nectar past the reach of most insects. Hummingbirds find them by sight, not scent.
  • Attracts ButterfliesFlat or clustered flowers give a landing surface, with nectar deep enough for a proboscis. Adults feed here; their caterpillars still need a host plant nearby.

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