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Looking for a plant that glows in the landscape? Duranta Lemon Lime is prized for its brilliant chartreuse and golden-yellow foliage that stays bright even through the hottest days of summer. The vibrant leaves create a striking contrast against darker green plants and instantly brighten garden beds, patios, and container displays.
This fast-growing tropical shrub forms a naturally dense, bushy mound and responds exceptionally well to pruning, making it ideal for colorful hedges, borders, topiary forms, and accent plantings. Left unpruned, it typically reaches 18 inches to 3 feet tall and wide, maintaining a compact, manageable size.
In spring and summer, mature plants may produce small clusters of delicate lavender, blue, or white flowers, followed by attractive golden-yellow berries that add seasonal interest. While grown primarily for its spectacular foliage, these blooms and berries provide an added bonus.
Duranta Lemon Lime performs best in full sun to partial shade, with brighter sunlight producing the most intense golden-yellow leaf color. It prefers regular watering and well-drained soil but becomes moderately drought tolerant once established. In colder climates, it makes an excellent container plant that can be moved indoors before frost.
Whether used as a colorful hedge, patio specimen, container plant, or landscape accent, Duranta Lemon Lime delivers year-round tropical color with minimal effort. Its glowing foliage makes it one of the easiest ways to add brightness and contrast to the garden.

Variegated Sky Flower is grown for its summer flowers and ornamental fruit. This evergreen fast growing shrub spreads and arches to 10 feet tall and wide and is great for live hedges and covering fences and corners. In the summer, cascading clusters of blue tubular flowers appear followed by wonderfully contrasting orange-yellow berries. This variegated form has creamy-yellow margins around the one inch long serrated leaves. In mild climates this plant can be in flower nearly year round with flowers and fruit appearing at the same time. It does best in full sun with frequent deep watering and is hardy to about 20-25F. A good choice for espaliers, as a small tree or large bush; all forms benefit from frequent selective pruning. Flowers are very attractive to butterflies.
Great for providing a color contrast in the landscape, and is especially well-suited as a bright-colored background or screening. Prune back in late-winter to encourage a more compact shape and strong flush of fresh spring foliage. Requires moderate watering in a well-drained soil.