I bought these for containers flanking my driveway. Afternoon sun exposure. I gave them a trim and they are starting to fill in. They ARE thirsty -- so I cannot forget their AM watering. The lemon yellow/white pinwheel color is so striking and beautiful. I do NOT understand why they cost 2x as much on the PW website as they do in a local garden center.....
Superbells® Lemon Slice® Calibrachoa
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Exposure
- Part Sun to Sun
Flower Season
- Spring
- Summer
- Fall
Mature Size
Height: 6" - 12"
Spread: 12" - 2'
Height: 15cm - 30cm
Spread: 30cm - 61cm
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6 - 12 Inches8 - 12 Inches12 - 24 Inches15cm - 30cm20cm - 30cm30cm - 61cm
Features
The pinwheel pattern of alternating slices of yellow and white is really striking and quite unique. Tons of blooms cover this mounding trailing calibrachoa plant. Superbells are best grown in containers where soil moisture can be more easily controlled, since they don't tolerate constantly wet soils well.
Best SellerAward WinnerContinuous Bloom or RebloomerLong BloomingFall InterestHeat TolerantDeadheading Not NecessaryAttracts:HummingbirdsCharacteristics
Plant Type:AnnualHeight Category:ShortGarden Height:6 - 12 Inches 15cm - 30cmTrails Up To:24 Inches 61cmSpacing:8 - 12 Inches 20cm - 30cmSpread:12 - 24 Inches 30cm - 61cmFlower Colors:WhiteFlower Colors:YellowFlower Shade:Yellow and white pinwheel patternFoliage Colors:GreenFoliage Shade:GreenHabit:Mounding TrailingContainer Role:SpillerPlant Needs
Light Requirement:Part Sun to SunThe optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).
Maintenance Category:EasyBloom Time:Planting To Hard FrostHardiness Zones:9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11bWater Category:AverageNeeds Good DrainageUses:ContainerUses Notes:Calibrachoa do not like to have constantly damp soil. They will do well in the ground only with good drainage. For most gardeners containers are the best use for Calibrachoa.
Maintenance Notes:Superbells® calibrachoa plants are easy to grow and will flower non-stop from planting to hard frost if simple maintenance tasks are performed. Growing Superbells in full sun to part sun is important for their strong growth and bloom performance. They do not require deadheading, meaning the removal of spent flowers, to stay in bloom all season.
Calibrachoa’s roots are sensitive to wet soil and extreme soil pH levels. For these reasons, they grow best in containers with a well-drained potting mix such as Proven Winners Premium Potting Soil. If your garden soil is well-drained and slightly acidic, you may be able to grow calibrachoa in the ground.
Superbells calibrachoa thrive with average moisture and prefer the soil to dry out a little bit before they are watered again. They do not grow well and may develop root rot in soggy soil. However, do not let the plants wilt severely before watering again.
Superbells perform best when fed regularly with Proven Winners plant foods. At planting time, in containers and landscapes, mix Proven Winners Premium Continuous Release Plant Food into the soil, following the rates specified on the packaging. Reapply halfway through the growing season.
Additionally, Superbells should be fed with Proven Winners Premium Water Soluble Plant Food every third time you water or at least once per week according to the rates specified on the packaging.
By midsummer, it will be time to trim up your Superbells. Trim the longest stems, bringing them in line with the others, taking care not to remove more than 20% of the plant. Follow up by feeding them with water soluble plant food to promote fresh new growth and blooms.
Woo-hoo! There is nothing more super than Superbells. If there was a word that meant extra, extra super it still wouldn't be as super as we are. Calibrachoas are a new type of plants that sort of look like little Petunias, which makes sense seeing as we're related.
Superbells® Lemon Slice® Calibrachoa 'USCAL5302M' USPP 24,353, Can 4,917 -
52944312113Browse reviews from people who have grown this plant.
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Trespence, North Carolina, United States, 3 years ago
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I expected these to perform better than they did. After a couple of months they looked lackluster.
Elizaflowers, California, United States, 3 years ago -
Very pretty yellow plant. I found two of these on the clearance rack at Walmart for $1.30. I put them in a planter with Picasso in Purple. They are not as full as the Picasso plant, but a very nice contrast color. I havent had them long and right now they are blooming upwards; no trailing. I would purchase again.
Sue B, Ohio, United States, 4 years ago -
These were one of the best performers among the Superbells I planted in my balcony railing planters. They flowered prolifically from the time I planted the young small plants just after the last frost, until I had to yank out the enormous trailing 3 foot long masses they had grown into at the end of November so I could prepare for winter/spring. A good companion variety would be Over Easy, which grew at about the same rate and size. I also planted them with Blue Moon Punch and Tangerine Punch, which were slightly less vigorous but still kept up pretty well.
Jersey Ray, New Jersey, United States, 4 years ago -
Oh my goodness! We just potted some of the Lemonslices on our front porch and they are just eyepopping! I’m so very happy with them! They look just like they did the day we planted except with more blooms! No wilting at all! Wish I could say the same for my petunias!
Bonnie Hoke, Texas, United States, 6 years ago -
Lemon Slice has been a winner in my flower box! (I wouldn't try to grow calibrachoas in the ground. Clay soil does not work for them.) It's been the most vigorous calibrachoa I've grown!
Sharon Sivertsen, Illinois, United States, 7 years ago -
Since a long visit to Germany and the Alp area, I have fallen in love with cascading flowers out of windowboxes. Usually use cascading petunias, trailing geraniums, and vinca vine. Saw these lemon yellow plants last year, and planted a few as accent in my boxes. I was very pleased with the constant color, and hummingbirds & butterflies loved them too. They kept blooming until a hard freeze, and I live in Kansas so it does get cold. Plan to find some more this year. Definitely a winner!
M. Mulryan, Kansas, United States, 9 years ago -
Stumbled across Lemon Slice couple of years ago at Home Depot and tried some outside a B&B room (w yellow/white décor). LOVED them. Every factor associated w the write-ups of Million Bells was true for us - mounding. not fussy, last all season, love sun, etc, etc, etc. But then ... couldn't find them anymore (or the original label to even see what they were) !!! Was at a friends house and admiring a gorgeous potted mound of colour. He told me they were Million Bells and my research brought me here. I'm now planning out my colours for planting Calibrachoa all across the back of my property (where the sun shines (bakes/kills) all day. I've liked the Wave Petunia's from the last couple of years but they don't hold a candle to Million Bells - prolific and colour choices and tough enough for my mishandling. Now the challenge will be to find or order the colours I want for my place - just a retail customer so zero buying power. Can hardly wait till spring. Yippee.
Steve Collier, Ontario, Canada, 9 years ago -
This is my first experience with Superbells and it's a fantastic plant. Beautiful bright yellow and white flowers with perfectly crisp stripes covered the vine in abundance from purchase to present -- and it's mid-November in New England! The buoyant vines branch to a width of about 12 inches and are 18 inches long. I went away the first week of August and forgot to ask someone to water my Superbells. I returned to a brown, fried plant with just a few yellow flowers remaining. I thought it was gone. But I trimmed off the crispiest branches and watered well, and the plant cheerfully rebounded. Now, three months later, it is crowded with perfect flowers, spilling over my plantar. It's one of the prettiest flowers in my garden and utterly care free.
FCR, Rhode Island, United States, 11 years ago -
thegardenerd, 11 years ago
Award Year Award Plant Trial 2013 Leader of the Pack - Early Season Containers North Carolina State, JC Raulston Arboretum 2012 Top Performer Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield 2012 Plant of Distinction University of Georgia 2012 Top Performer University of Georgia 2012 Top Performer University of Tennessee - Knoxville 2012 Top Perfomer University of Wisconsin 2012 Top 10 as Voted by the Industry University of Georgia 2012 Best in Show University of Georgia 2012 Top Perfomer Colorado State University 2012 Best New Calibrachoa Colorado State University 26 More Recipes -
