Fruit Salad Combination

Light Needs

Partial Sun to Full Sun

(At Least 5 Hours of Direct Sunlight)

Mature Height

6 - 12 Inches

Mature Spread

18 - 24 Inches

Fruit Salad shakes a 12-inch basket into life with three calibrachoa “flavors”: Grape Punch drapes deep violet petals around an inky throat, Lemon Slice spins cheerful yellow-and-white pinwheels, and Superbena Royale Iced Cherry tops everything with juicy red verbena clusters. Flowers appear by late spring, cover the plant all summer, and keep pouring until a hard frost. Each component starts as a neat six-inch mound, then trails up to two feet, forming a rounded, fruit-bowl cascade perfect for eye-level baskets or porch rail planters.

Heat tolerance and mildew resistance mean reliable color even during July scorch, while the self-cleaning habit lets blossoms drop away without deadheading. All three parents hail from South American hillsides, so they tolerate brief drought once established yet look freshest with moderate moisture. Their shared mounded-trailing habit keeps the mix balanced—Grape Punch and Lemon Slice spill over the rim as showy ribbons, Iced Cherry weaves through the middle, and together they light up sunny decks, patio tables, or the foreground of raised beds.

Fruit Salad Combination Care

Use a porous potting mix amended for sharp drainage, then alternate Grape Punch and Lemon Slice around the edge of a 12-inch basket, and plant one Iced Cherry in the middle. Water deeply after planting and again when the top inch feels dry; calibrachoa roots resent soggy soil. Incorporate slow-release fertilizer at planting and supplement every two weeks with a water-soluble bloom booster. If stems grow leggy in midsummer, shear the planting back by one-third and feed—the combo rebounds with thicker growth and more flowers in ten days.

Plants bloom nonstop until frost in zones 3–8 and can over-winter indoors as a bright-window accent; trim lightly, reduce watering, and expect lighter bloom until spring. Gardeners in zones 9–11 may leave baskets outside year-round, giving a restorative haircut in late winter and fresh fertilizer for a second season.

Fruit Salad Combination Spacing

A single kit fills one standard 12-inch basket; upgrade to a 14-inch pot for a looser cascade. Choose containers at least ten inches deep with drainage holes to keep these calibrachoas and verbena performing at peak flavor. In raised beds, space transplants ten inches apart so mounds merge without crowding.

SKU:

CON466