From spring through fall, it’s covered with light purple blooms. Hardy to 10 degrees Fahrenheit, trailing lantana is more frost-tolerant than upright shrub varieties.

In fact, trailing -- also called weeping -- lantana will produce the most flowers when it gets all-day sun, so it should thrive. Of course, for plants in any pot, success starts with the soil.

Try the tough, purple-flowered, long-blooming trailing lantana. Trailing lantana is an evergreen shrub that grows about two feet high and spreads trailing branches outward three to six feet.

In my never-ending pursuit of landscape beautification, I planted Purple Trailing Lantana on the perimeter of the box and let it spread across it completely, covering the box with its profusion of ...

Another safe lantana is L. montevidensis, trailing lantana. It has soft purple flowers and does well as a ground cover. Weeping, vinelike stems make an attractive ground cover.

Question: I have found some purple trailing lantana on our land. (This land has never been inhabited, as far as I know of.) This is not one of the yellow/pink or yellow/red native varieties. Is ...