How to Use lantana in a Sentence

lantana

noun
  • Some of her favorites are lantana, purslane and rose moss.
    Roxie Hammill, kansascity.com, 2 June 2017
  • The lavender is a different species than New Gold lantana and is more cold tolerant.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Other fall bloomers: Pink and purple asters, salvia, lantana, Dark Knight bluebeard.
    Uyeta Landscape and Maintenance, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
  • Unfortunately, lace bugs attack lantana this time of the year, and the sucking insects will cause the foliage to turn dusty-gray and the blooming to end.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 29 June 2018
  • Cold weather will eliminate the blooms of zinnias, porter weed, milkweed and lantana.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Trained into a tall tree shape, lantana can live a long, pleasant life in a deep pot, with full to partial sun and weekly watering.
    Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Lantana horrida is the native Texas lantana that produces orange and yellow blooms on coarse plants that grow to at least 3 feet around and 3 feet tall.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • In the couple’s shopping cart were two different yuccas, a sotol and some lantana.
    Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Among the plants that are blooming now are duranta, cape honeysuckle, Turk’s cap, shrimp plant and lantana.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Shortest of all of them are trailing lavender lantana and its white counterpart called White Lightning.
    Neil Sperry, star-telegram.com, 5 July 2017
  • The expectation is that Turks cap, roses, lantana and shrimp plant will mostly recover from the freeze damage.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The wall surrounding the city today is overrun with an invasive weed from the West Indies known as lantana camara.
    Fox News, 1 Aug. 2019
  • This year the list is longer and includes more cold-hardy plants such as oleander, rosemary, blue plumbago, viburnum, lantana, roses, shrimp plant, roses and Turks cap.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • There is also an attractive white blooming version of the lavender lantana.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The landscape was bright green and pale yellow with pops of fuchsia bougainvillea and flame-hued lantana — a planter box ornamental at my home in California that here grows to the size of an apple tree.
    Freda Moon, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Who Came to Tea to local schoolchildren while sitting among life-size lantana elephant statues, per People.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 July 2021
  • Check your state’s invasive plant lists before deciding to use lantana.
    Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • Australia’s recent slate of brushfires has mostly left the county’s rainforests unscathed, but that could change as the loss of Myrtaceae allows lantana to continue its spread.
    John R. Platt, Scientific American, 5 July 2020
  • The 5,200-square-foot plaza offers tables and chairs, including clusters of low, pod-style seats, along with shrubs such as rosemary and lantana and box trees including magnolia and jacaranda.
    Bryce Alderton, Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Much of the funding will go toward keeping out an unwanted intruder from the West Indies known as the lantana camara weed that’s threatening the structure.
    Antony Sguazzin, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Among their favorites: Asters, lantana, lavender, goldenrod, sedum and anything in the mint family.
    Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Phlox, hollyhock, foxglove, lantana, and butterfly bush are all good choices.
    Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2020
  • Perennials: Salvia, lantana, iris, four o’clock, paperwhites, mint marigold.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2018
  • Some plants are just plain miserable, especially sun-lovers like lantana and geraniums, which may actually be drowned and starved for sunlight.
    Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2019
  • Narrow walkways wound through gardens planted in Christmas palms, lantana and hibiscus.
    Freda Moon, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Plant milkweed, porter weed, mist flower, zinnias, salvia, duranta and lantana for late summer butterfly nectar sources.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 12 July 2019
  • Keep an eye on the forecast before taking the clippers to that dead wood on lantana, hibiscus, es-peranza, duranta, plumbago, oleander and firebush.
    Kathy Huber, Houston Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Brighten up your outdoor spaces this summer by planting coneflowers, calamint, rudbeckia, coleus and lantana, or opt to plan a container garden.
    Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 14 July 2021
  • Other guides include azalea, redbud, Lenten rose, peony, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, coneflower and savory calamint.
    Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 7 June 2021
  • Other guides include peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, coleus, lantana and coneflower.
    Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 3 June 2021

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