Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
Fortnightly
Mature size
1–2 m
First harvest
Flowers from month four
Family
Verbenaceae
Where it grows
balcony, terrace
Good for
beauty, biodiversity
Sow in
monsoon
Care
Highly invasive: plant sterile cultivars in pots, and never in ground near forest.
Invasive across Indian forests — grow the sterile garden cultivars only, never the wild kind.
Growing it
Highly invasive: plant sterile cultivars in pots, and never in ground near forest.
What it is for
Butterfly nectar in a contained pot; deadhead to stop seeding.