{"title":"Four O'Clocks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"four-oclocks-full-moon","title":"Four O'Clocks, 'Full Moon'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Mirabilis jalapa) \u003c\/em\u003eAn essential addition to your Moon Garden, Four O'Clocks are the perfect package for night pollinators and midnight garden parties: moonlight-reflecting white flowers and an alluring, sweet scent reminiscent of jasmine. Plant under your bedroom window and outside your breakfast nook to enjoy the nighttime and early morning fragrance all summer long. Plants will brightly stretch and branch to 3' tall with a beautiful vibrant green architecture, and will self sow readily (but not out of control!) in our Northwest climate. Tubers may be dug and stored over winter, then planted out after frost the following spring for a jump on the season.\u003cbr\u003e 75-85 days. UO\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacket: 20 seeds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[split]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrowing Info\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSOWING:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSow indoors 4-6 weeks before your last frost. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTransplant after last frost (soil temp around 65F)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDirect sow after last frost when soil temps are 65F\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNote:\u003c\/em\u003e May self-sow but not aggressively. If you are concerned, deadhead often! If you are having trouble with germination, you may nick the seeds and soak overnight before sowing. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePLANTING DEPTH:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1\/4\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSPACING:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2' \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEMERGENCE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7-14 days @ soil temp 65-75F\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLIGHT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFull sun to mostly full sun \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFERTILITY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAverage. Prefers well-drained, and evenly moist soil but are drought, heat, and poor soil tolerant. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eADDITIONAL NOTES:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile not absolutely necessary, you may provide staking or netting to keep them upright and tidy. They do tend to support each other and have a lovely upright habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou may pinch them, but honestly they need very, very little from you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrought, heat, and poor soil tolerant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRabbit and Deer resistant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttract hummingbirds, butterflies, and nocturnal pollinators! Flowers open late afternoon and remain open until morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTubers may be dug for storage (like dahlias) or left in the ground depending on your zone (zone 8+). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove them in the garden as they are not suitable for cutting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Pkt","offer_id":37757558259886,"sku":"FOC-FM-pkt","price":4.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0504\/6203\/2046\/products\/img_5760small.jpg?v=1606176495"},{"product_id":"four-oclocks-strega","title":"Four O'Clocks, 'Strega'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Mirabilis jalapa) \u003c\/em\u003eThis botanical party originally came to us from our dear friend and collaborator Lane Selman of the Culinary Breeding Network who gathered the seed from wild roadside plants in the village of Castiglione di Sicilia - north of Mount Etna in northeastern Sicily, close to her familial home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe writes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eI love these flowers as they remind me of my Sicilian grandmother who always had them in her yard in Florida where they are perennial plus self seed prolifically.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlthough my grandmother only had the common solid hot pink\/purple variety, a cool thing about them is they can have flowers with different colors growing simultaneously on the same plant. Some flowers have splashes and streaks of multiple colors on individual blooms. And it’s possible to have different combinations of flowers and patterns occurring on different flowers of the same plant.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe name \"four-o'clock” comes from the flowers opening in the late afternoon or early evening (between 4:00-8:00). The blooms produce a strong, sweet-smelling fragrance throughout the night which attracts Sphingidae moths and other nocturnal pollinators which pollinate during the night before the flowers close for good in the morning. New flowers open the next day.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese plants are originally from tropical South America and arrived in Europe in 1525 as an ornamental species. In Italy they are called 'bella di notte', which means 'beautiful during night'.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlants stand about 4' and are covered with blooms, from hot pinks to electric salmons to neon yellows and any streaked combination of the three. The name \"Strega\" is Italian for \"witch\" and is an apt descriptor for the genetic sorcery that is at play in the plants. Much of the unpredictability of pattern and coloration in the blooms is a result of transposons (or \"jumping genes\") which move around chromosomes disrupting what would normally be predictable color expression with wild splashes of patterning and color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first in our new \"Random Italian roadside 4 o'clock biodiversity project\" in partnership with the Culinary Breeding Network. Annual in zones 7- and possible perennial (tubers) in zones 8+.\u003cbr\u003e80 days. UO\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacket: 20 seeds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[split]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrowing Info\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSOWING:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSow indoors 4-6 weeks before your last frost. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTransplant after last frost (soil temp around 65F)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDirect sow after last frost when soil temps are 65F\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNote:\u003c\/em\u003e May self-sow but not aggressively. If you are concerned, deadhead often! If you are having trouble with germination, you may nick the seeds and soak overnight before sowing. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePLANTING DEPTH:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1\/4\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSPACING:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2' \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEMERGENCE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7-14 days @ soil temp 65-75F\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLIGHT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFull sun to mostly full sun \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFERTILITY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAverage. Prefers well-drained, and evenly moist soil but are drought, heat, and poor soil tolerant. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eADDITIONAL NOTES:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile not absolutely necessary, you may provide staking or netting to keep them upright and tidy. They do tend to support each other and have a lovely upright habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou may pinch them, but honestly they need very, very little from you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrought, heat, and poor soil tolerant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRabbit and Deer resistant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttract hummingbirds, butterflies, and nocturnal pollinators! Flowers open late afternoon and remain open until morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTubers may be dug for storage (like dahlias) or left in the ground depending on your zone (zone 8+). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove them in the garden as they are not suitable for cutting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Uprising Seeds","offers":[{"title":"Pkt","offer_id":42288802562281,"sku":"FOC-ST-pkt","price":4.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100 seeds","offer_id":42288802595049,"sku":"FOC-ST-100s","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0504\/6203\/2046\/products\/strega2.jpg?v=1640764291"},{"product_id":"four-oclock-fairy-trumpets","title":"Four O'Clocks, 'Fairy Trumpets'","description":"\u003cp\u003e(\u003cem\u003eMirabilis longiflora\u003c\/em\u003e) Our love for Four O'clocks is well-documented at this point. So named because their flowers open in the afternoon and grace the evening garden with their intoxicating scent before closing the following morning, they are also known as \u003cem\u003eBella di Notte\u003c\/em\u003e (\"beautiful in the night\") in Itay where they grow wild on roadsides and in disturbed areas. I find them to be a good litmus test to find the kind of people I can get along with in life as they offer nothing of monetary value to the grower, being neither edible nor suitable for cutting. They are not for the \"utilitarian grower\" but for the lover of beauty and those are my people. \u003cbr\u003e'Fairy Trumpets' is a different species than the other four o'clocks we offer, notable for the impossibly long necks to its tube flowers, 6\" to 8\" or longer (\"more like Fairy Trombones if you ask me\" - Meira, age 7). The sprawly, \u003cem\u003esticky\u003c\/em\u003e plants are covered in the blooms and in the evening, the jasmine green tea scent emanating from them is nothing short of ambrosial. White flowers with magenta throats and contrasting orange protruded anthers remind us of miniature hibiscus blossoms. Plant some in a hanging basket outside your bedroom window or alongside a garden path frequented in the evening. Plants are heat and drought-tolerant and moth pollinated. Grow to 3' tall and wide. \u003cbr\u003eUO. 85 days\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacket: 20 seeds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[split]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrowing Info\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSOWING:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSow indoors 4-6 weeks before your last frost. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTransplant after last frost (soil temp around 65F)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDirect sow after last frost when soil temps are 65F\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNote:\u003c\/em\u003e May self-sow but not aggressively. If you are concerned, deadhead often! If you are having trouble with germination, you may nick the seeds and soak overnight before sowing. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePLANTING DEPTH:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1\/4\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSPACING:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e18-24\" \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEMERGENCE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7-20 days @ soil temp 65-75F\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLIGHT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFull sun to mostly full sun \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFERTILITY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAverage. Prefers well-drained, and evenly moist soil but are drought, heat, and poor soil tolerant. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eADDITIONAL NOTES:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile not absolutely necessary, you may provide staking or netting to keep them upright and tidy. Fairy trumpets sprawl a little more than other species. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou may pinch them, but honestly they need very, very little from you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrought, heat, and poor soil tolerant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRabbit and Deer resistant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttract hummingbirds, butterflies, and nocturnal pollinators! Flowers open late afternoon and remain open until morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTubers may be dug for storage (like dahlias) or left in the ground depending on your zone (zone 8+). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove them in the garden as they are not suitable for cutting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Uprising Seeds","offers":[{"title":"Pkt","offer_id":44164434755817,"sku":"FOC-FT-pkt","price":4.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0504\/6203\/2046\/products\/FairyTrumpetsweb.jpg?v=1672778700"},{"product_id":"four-oclock-beddu","title":"Four O'Clock, 'Beddu'","description":"\u003cp\u003e(Mirabilis\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e jalapa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e) Lane Selman of the Culinary Breeding Network has a strangely obsessive habbit of pinching seeds from roadside four o'clocks on her travels through Italy, and she has found in us an equally strange collaborator to obsessively multiply and spread their joy through the world. If you have weird hobbies go out and find your people I guess?\u003cbr\u003eWe are dubbing our project the \"Random Italian Roadside 4 O'clock Biodiversity Project®\" and now at 2 varieties, represents the largest commercially available collection of its kind.\u003cbr\u003eThis hot fuchsia variety was gathered from wild plants among the Greek ruins of an archeological park just west of Siracusa on the east coast of Sicily: an amazing area with ruins of an enormous Greek theater and fantastic carved limestone grottos. (That is, unless removing plant vegetation from the site is illegal in which case they were, er, gathered someplace else).\u003cbr\u003eLane is Sicilian and \"beddu\" is the regional-dialect equivalent of \"bella\" or \"beautiful\". Four O'clocks are known as \u003cem\u003ebella di notte\u003c\/em\u003e (night beauty) in Italian because the blossoms open in the late afternoon, filling their evening surroundings with sweet perfume, attracting moths, night pollinators, and lovers of beauty, before closing the following morning. The electric color brings the evening rays of the sultry Mediterranean sun to shine from our northern-latitude gardens.\u003cbr\u003eFour o'clock are about as unfussy as a plant can be, growing into big busy plants covered in blooms, and thriving in the hands of even the most negligent of gardeners. Each bloom lasts a single night and only produces a single seed. They happily reseed, but at least in our the northern reaches of the US haven't shown too much tendency towards irrepressible world domination.\u003cbr\u003e80 days. 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