North Shore Plant Club
Sweet Caroline Red Hawk Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas 'Sweet Caroline Red Hawk')
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| Deciduous Perennial (usually grown as an annual near you) Vine in the Convolvulaceae Family | |||
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Available May 9 |
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Available May 16 |
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Available May 23 |
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Great foliage component plant in combinations; excellent heat tolerance and good vigor. |
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About Sweet Potato VineWhile we wouldn’t recommend eating this particular member of the Sweet Potato fam, Sweet Potato Vine can bring a deliciously tropical feel to your garden and comes in a huge range of colors, shapes and textures. This vigorous annual ornamental vine is most commonly used as a “spiller” trailing accent in a container or planted to trail over a low wall or in a window box. She can be found in colors including deep burgundy, purple, and nearly black to chartreuse, light green, and a pale pink, green and white tricolor. Her leaf shape can vary from heart-shaped to lobed to lacy adding a unique texture to plantings. |
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ProsHigh-impact trailing accent Huge variety of colors, shapes and textures Newer varieties are disease-resistant Drought-tolerant |
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ConsThis plant is probably not winter-hardy outdoors where you live. |
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| Mature Size | 6 - 12 inches tall. 8 - 10 feet wide. | ||
| Sun Exposure | Full Sun - Full Sun | ||
| Moisture Tolerance | Medium | ||
| Zones | 9a - 11b (Usually hardy to 20° F) | ||
| Tags | Annual in Chicago, Attracts Butterflies, Attracts Pollinators, Attracts Wildlife, Deciduous, Edibles, Full Sun, Full Sun, Grown For Attractive Foliage, Medium, Medium, Perennial, Shade Tolerant, Spillers, Tender Perennial, Vine | ||
| Bloom Period | Rarely flowers | ||
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Photos of This with...Sweet Caroline Red Hawk Sweet Potato Vine, Supertunia Latte Petunia, ColorBlaze Chocolate Drop Coleus, Superbells Coral Sun Million Bells, Superbells Double Amber Million Bells, Superbells Double Orange Million Bells, Superbells Honeyberry Million Bells, Ladybird Sunglow Texas Primrose, Heat It Up Scarlet Blanket Flower, Rockapulco Orange Shades Impatiens, Luscious Goldengate Lantana, Graceful Grasses Vertigo, Fireworks Variegated Red Fountain Grass, Supertunia Mini Vista White Petunia, Plum Dandy Alternanthera, Heart to Heart Dawn to Dusk Elephant Ear, Over Easy Calibrachoa, Superbells Pomegranate Punch, Superbells Tangerine Punch Calibrachoa, Toffee Twist Bronze Curly Sedge, Diamond Snow Spurge, Diamond Frost Spurge, Sweet Caroline Medusa Green Sweet Potato, Sweet Caroline Raven Improved Sweet Potato, Fiber Optic Grass, Live Wire Fiber Optic Grass, Jazz Hands Night Moves Chinese Fringe Flower, Boldly Coral Geranium, Purple Fountain Grass, Graceful Grasses Purple Fountain Grass, Sunstar Rose Egyptian Star Flower, Supertunia Black Cherry, Honey Supertunia, ColorBlaze Apple Brandy Coleus, ColorBlaze El Brighto Coleus, ColorBlaze Rediculous Coleus, ColorBlaze Velveteen Coleus, ColorBlaze Wicked Hot Coleus, ColorBlaze Wicked Witch Coleus, Colorblaze Golden Dreams Coleus, Colorblaze Sedona Sunset Coleus, Texas Parking Lot Coleus, |
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We try very hard to source exactly what you’d like, but sometimes growers run out of plants! While this variety is a great deal at the price shown, we know that it has limited availability. If you want the plant even if it might be more expensive, or in a different size or quantity -- after you place your order, just send us a quick note at help@northshoreplantclub.com. Then, we’ll try to get you some version of this from one of our growers. And if we can’t get it from anywhere, of course, we’ll send a refund!
Plants which are well-adapted to our local climate are most often field-grown (outside). Field-grown plants are generally cheaper and have the advantage of already somewhat acclimated to our cold winters, but that means they’re not artificially far along in the spring and tend to bloom at the normal time in our area.
Spring annuals and tender perennials are typically grown in Greenhouses so they can be ready and luxurious exactly when customers want them. Some perennials are also “forced” into early bloom in greenhouses. In May, there can be a very big difference between field-grown and greenhouse-grown plants of the same type. The latter typically look good right away (so they’re a great choice where that’s important), but we typically pay a premium for it.
The cost of this recipe's ingredients will vary depending on the season and the sizes and varieties you select.
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To secure the best prices for club members and make sure we know the current plants available from each nursery, we take orders only a couple of times a month.
Shoot us an email at help@northshoreplantclub.com, and we'll be happy to talk about plants or let you know when it's time to buy them!
We order from a rotating cast of the best nurseries in the Great Lakes region. It looks like we've offered this plant in the past, but the nurseries we're working with this week don't appear to have it in stock at the moment.
Our goal is to bring as many plants together under "one roof" as possible, so we'll try hard to make it available again in the future!