For years we sold 'Trailing Lavender' as an "annual" because we thought it wasn't cold hardy north of USDA Zone 9a. That was until 2006, when we planted a patch of it as an annual flower bed in our USDA Zone 8a gardens here in north central Georgia. Instead of removing the plants at the end of the growing season we left in the flowerbed. After what was a typical cold winter, which usually kills off the tender annual lantana varieties, we were very surprised to see than all the Trailing Lavender Lantanas survived. That was in 2014 and the plants have come back year after year since.

Trailing Lavender is one of if not the most profuse bloomers of all the Lantana varieties we grow in our gardens, rivaling New Gold. All summer long and well into fall, the trailing mounds are literally smothered in very pretty and soothing bright lavender flower clusters the butterflies and hummingbirds will flock to!