‘New Gold’ Lantana

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Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 8a-11 Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Perennial

Height at Maturity: 12-18″ in ground, 10-12″ in containers

Width at Maturity: 36-48″
Spacing: 18-24″ for mass planting, 60″ or more for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Dense, Mounding, Trailing

Growth Rate: Fast to Very Fast

Flower Color: Bright Golden-Yellow

Flower Size: 1.5 to 2″ round clusters

Flowering Period: May/June to Frost!

Flower Type: Rounded Cluster

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Bright Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: Yes

Berry Color: Green

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun

Water Needs: Average, very low when established

Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well-drained moist to dry

Soil pH: 5.5 – 6.5 (Acid to SLightly Acid)

Maintenance / Care: Low, prune in Spring (Not Fall!)

Attracts: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

Description

Way back in the 1995 ‘New Gold’ Lantana won the Georgia Gold Medal Award for its outstanding hardiness, attributes, characteristics and overall performance in the garden. It has stood the test of time for good reason and is still considered to be one of if not the best of the low-growing hardy lantanas. New Gold is one of if not the most profuse bloomers of all the Lantana varieties we grow in our gardens. All summer long and well into fall the trailing mounds are literally smothered in bright golden-yellow flower clusters that butterflies and hummingbirds are sure to find and flock to!

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing in a trailing mound 12 to 18 inches tall and spreading 3 to 4 feet wide over time, New Gold Lantana is ideal for use as an accent, as a low border, in groupings or mass plantings, or to cascade over a wall in sunny landscape borders. It also does very well as a solo or combined with other plants in pots and hanging baskets. For those who live and garden above USDA Zone 8a, where this lantana is not reliably winter hardy, pots can be brought indoors during the winter. A fine addition to butterfly and hummingbird gardens, yellow theme gardens, sunny perennial gardens, cottage gardens and the Xerscape (low water needs).

Suggested Spacing: 18 to 24 inches solid mass plantings; 5 feet or more apart for space between plants

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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 8a, where this Lantana variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

CAUTION! Avoid pruning hardy Lantana in the fall as doing so almost always ensures death of the plant! Wait until new growth begins to emerge in spring to remove dead stems. A mid-summer shearing is okay.

Hardy Lantana are very easy to grow in most any moist to somewhat dry well-drained soil of average to even poor fertility and full to mostly sun. Constantly soggy soil or standing water is problematic. Some light shade is tolerated but plant will grow more dense and produce the most flowers throughout the long flowering season (June to Frost) in full to mostly sun. We suggest at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day for best performance.

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I am very pleased with wilson bros. I have purchased several plants and have been very satisfied with the quality of the packaging and the health of the plants. I was nervous as I had never purchased from them before but am glad I did. will be back next yr. thanks to all———————————Thanks for the kind words and awesome review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

Arrived ready to plant and already thriving!!!!! Buy from Wilson Brothers you won’t be disappointed, EVER!!!!!!!!!————————————-Wow!! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

The lantana I received was in excellent condition. I order from you for all my plants due to your past history of providing me quality plants that others don’t.—————————————Awesome! Thanks for the kind words and wonderful review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

I bought some lantana for the flower bed I wanted filled with something that comes back. I apparently picked the right thing.
When they got here some were slapped so hard by the postal carriers that it’s was literally sticks.
I emailed these guys with pics and they said please give a chance. the heat about killed them and the carrier finished them off.
Anyways. I agreed because being into gardening you know this kind of stuff. And a lot of stuff will come back stronger then ever. Only thing I did was not repot them until they came out of shock. And boy did they.
They already have flowers on them and I have only had them for a month or so.
Love the customer service here!!——————————————————–So sorry for the shipping problem! But thanks so much for the photos! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

This lantana bloomed shortly after planting and is a lovely bright yellow. It will hang over a low wall surrounding a patio. I am in zone 7B and this is hardy to 8 but I am leaving it in ground over the winter in hopes that it will survive. We seem to be edging into Zone 8 so I am hopeful. It is the color and size I wanted for that spot and am curious to see if it makes it over winter. For now it is just right.—————————————————Keep us posted, they are pretty tough! Don’t prune until you see new growth in the Spring….We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

After a confused delivery and return of the first plant the replacement was delivered efficiently and was in excellent condition. I’m quite happy with the purchase.——————————————–Sorry about the first plant, but so pleased the second one is doing well. We hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG