New nursery plants

[Arizona bonsai]

We visited a local nursery today & came away with three plants. The first was a lantana with a nice lower trunk IMO. The second was a blue hibiscus. Last was a dwarf crape myrtle.
All I did today is cut down the pot, expose the root flare & do some light trimming. Looks like our first 100 degree days are coming this weekend so I didn’t want to do any root trimming.

 

[Carol 83]

I have a Lantana coming sometime next week, I had actually never heard of them being used as bonsai. Here the plants are sold as annual flowers. I imagine in your climate, they will be able to stay outside all year.

 

[Arizona bonsai]

The lantanas in the ground do need some trimming to remove frost damage but then come back ok.

Normally the only trees that need to come in are desert rose & pumeria.