There are both clumping and trailing types. Flowers on both open on bright, sunny days and close when overcast and at night. White and yellow clumping types are often everblooming, but some types tends to take a break in Sacramento when temperatures repeatedly hit the 100s. When it gets hot and dry, spider mites come crawling on ornamentals, vegetables, fruit trees, vines and berries. Insecticidal soap or insecticidal oil can control mites.
Mites also hate baths.
Spray water on leaves, especially the undersides, frequently on summer mornings June through September. Author Sheila Buff says the United States Supreme Court deemed the tomato a vegetable in 1893. Botanically, however, it's a fruit because the tomato develops from an ovary. For the beginner An ornamental is a plant used in the landscape and grown for its flowers, foliage or both. Let us hear from you.