Q&A for How to Grow Lantana Plants

First, you need all the essential equipment. If you are not someone who takes this as a full-time job, you will only need a pair of clippers, a sharp knife, and a pair of gloves. Those are the fundamental tools. However, it depends on the propagation methods you’re about to use. There are four common ways to do propagation: leaf cuttings, stem cuttings, rhizome propagation, tuber propagation and water propagation.

You can harvest the seeds when the fruits are black. Be careful when doing this, as the fruits are toxic.

Wait until the plant starts growing again (assuming it isn't dead entirely), and then cut away all the dead material. Check the base of the stem for new growth, since the roots are the part most likely to have survived.

Lantana need to be pruned in March and well watered in the summer to bloom.

Lantana is sensitive to a wide range of pests: aphids, white flies, red spiders, mites... In all cases, you have to use insecticide to get rid of them.

Established bushed have the highest chance to survive if they are transplanted during the spring.

In this precise case, the best period to do that is from August to the end of October.

Yes! We're on Lake Sinclair. Our lantana, planted in full sun, thrives to the point we must prune a lot each spring. If not pruned, it simply goes wild. Requires minimal maintenance, looks beautiful, spreads wildly.