Consumers are hot for container plantings including color bowls, combination planters and topiaries. Its unusual flowers and climbing habit make it a great choice for large planters, trellises and topiary frames.
Plants are easy to train to cover wire frames, hoops and trellises.
The yellow base of the flower tubes are densely covered with red bristles, which make the flowers resemble candy corn. Outdoors, protect plants from high light levels. It can also be mixed with other fall-flowering plants in indoor and outdoor containers as well as in landscape plantings. Plants will be offered to consumers in the 1998 Burpee plant catalog. Plants do not need to be pinched and growth regulators aren't necessary.