🌸🌿 Beautiful Marvel of Peru (Mirabilis jalapa) – 30 Seeds

Description:

Add a splash of vibrant color and delightful fragrance to your garden with Beautiful Marvel of Peru (Mirabilis jalapa), also known as the Four O’Clock flower. This charming annual produces trumpet-shaped blooms that open in the late afternoon, with flowers in a dazzling mix of colors. Easy to grow and highly ornamental, Marvel of Peru is perfect for borders, containers, and cottage gardens.

🌿 Botanical Name: Mirabilis jalapa

✨ Key Features:

• Vibrant, multicolored trumpet-shaped flowers

• Flowers open in the late afternoon and evening, releasing a sweet fragrance

• Long blooming season from summer to fall

• Attracts pollinators like moths and butterflies

• Heat and drought tolerant once established

🌱 Growing Information:

☀️ Light Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
🌱 Sowing Time:

• Sow indoors 6–8 weeks before last frost

• Transplant outdoors after danger of frost has passed

• Can also be sown directly outdoors in late spring

🕰 Bloom Time: Summer to fall
📏 Plant Height: 60–90 cm (24–36 inches)
📏 Spacing: 30–45 cm (12–18 inches)

🌱 Germination Time: 7–14 days
🌡 Germination Temperature: 20–25°C (68–77°F)

🌾 Soil & Watering:

• Soil Type: Well-drained, moderately fertile soil

• Soil pH: Neutral to slightly acidic (6.0–7.0)

• Watering: Moderate; water regularly but avoid waterlogging

🧑🌾 Usage & Care:

• Deadhead spent flowers to encourage continuous blooming

• Drought tolerant once established but benefits from occasional watering

• Suitable for garden beds, borders, and containers

• Attracts evening pollinators such as moths

• Can self-seed freely in suitable climates

Package contains 2 grams or around 30 seeds

Mirabilis jalapa