Peters Crotons & Cordylines
772.240.2811

Peters Crotons & Cordylines 772.240.2811Peters Crotons & Cordylines 772.240.2811Peters Crotons & Cordylines 772.240.2811Peters Crotons & Cordylines 772.240.2811
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Crotons and cordylines plant nursery open Saturdays 10am-1pm; Weekdays call/text-ahead for appt 772.240.2811.

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Sun Crotons

An artistic design of a sun

  

While this list is by no means complete, nor is it a guarantee of success, if you need sun crotons that will do well in a West or Southern exposure, with some part of the day shaded, we have found that these varieties, which can be found without too much difficulty, are more likely to succeed than some other selections:

Plants of different types in the nursery

Andreanum

Batik

Congo

Curly Boy

Dreadlocks

Eleanor Roosevelt

Fantasia

Freckles

General Padget

Gold Dust

Mammie & Yellow Mammie




A croton known as Dreadlocks

Mango

Nestor

Picasso's Paintbrush

Pie Crust

Red Tortilla

Rex

Rooster Tail

Stewartii

Stop Llight

Sunny Star

Yellow Banana

Blazing Florida Sun & Heat Tolerance

A painting of the sun with a face

Despite rampant advice to the contrary, very few Crotons have a preference for all-day-long, full-on exposure.  This is especially true during nonstop, relentlessly blazing hot Florida summers. Not counting cloudy and rainy periods, the majority of Crotons prefer some small daily relief from incessant sun, especially during dry spells and drought, if only for a few hours.


Ironically, once the root system is established in the ground many varieties can and will survive adverse conditions including drought, a complete lack of fertilizer or the touch of a gardener’s caring hand.   But their growth is often slow or stunted.


What we have also found to be true is that few Croton varieties—apart from Mammie, Stoplight, Gold Dust, Yellow Banana & Yellow Mammie—can be counted on to look gorgeous after withstanding the harshness of being planted with little or no relief from summer sun beating down on their heads from sunup to sundown.  

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