Put the pot in bright shade for 6 to 8 weeks, by which time the pentas cutting should have rooted. Pentas require very little in the way of care and are susceptible to few pests and diseases.

Plant transplants about 12-16 inches apart in a well-prepared, raised landscape bed. Fertilize at planting with a slow-release fertilizer. They do not need constant irrigation.

This pot uses just one big plant -- a pink Dragon Wing begonia. One-Dish Meal. ... Three more good “cools” are evolvulus (blue), dwarf pink pentas, and purple or tricolor sage.

Colorful ground cover and filler plant. From Java and India comes marble leaf, a 12-to-18-inch-tall mounding plant that sports dark-green foliage decorated with a broad yellow center.

Pentas are mostly grown for lovely flowers that attract all kinds of butterflies, bees and birds. Flower colors range from white, to pink, red, lavender and purple.

Pentas are known to be great hummingbird and butterfly plants. What transpired in our trial, however, was most unusual. We were looking at about a dozen varieties, some old, some very new at the time.

Pentas are such agreeable summer bloomers. The rounded clusters of tiny, star-shaped flowers look fresh, no matter the heat. Not only do they brighten the garden, butterflies love them. Nursery ...

If you have gardening questions, you can speak to a master gardener from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Duval extension office at (904) 255-7450.

Sunstar is the name of a new series of pentas debuting this spring and it is an understatement to say they are taking the world by storm. There are four colors in the series coming from Proven ...

When to transplant pentas, holly ferns, maidenhair ferns. ... A Texas Master Gardener, she's the author of The Texas Flower Garden, published by Gibbs-Smith in 1996.