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Plant description
Scaevola 'Fan Tastic' is a good colourful ground cover plant with masses of mauve flowers in the warm months. It is vigorous, fast growing and soft-wooded with toothed mid-green foliage. Extremely floriferous and showy for many months of the year. A great feature, border, pot or hanging basket plant. Likes a sunny spot and well drained soils. Feed with low phosphorus native fertiliser in spring.
Further reading: Top ten native plants and
Best natives for pots and small gardens (articles written by native plant expert and horticulturalist Angus Stewart).
Additional plant information
Flowers
Flower colour: mauve
Flowering season: spring summer autumn
Plant size
Maximum height: 0.4 metres
Minimum height: 0.2 metres
Maximum width: 2 metres
Minimum width: 1 metres
Sunlight, frost & salt tolerance
This plant will tolerate full sunlight.
Light frost tolerance.
Plant is not salt tolerant.
Fauna attracting?
Yes. Attracts: insects.
Climate
This plant species will grow in the following climates: cool, temperate.
Soil types & conditions
Loam: moist, well-drained.
Clay: well-drained.
Sand: moist, well-drained.
Miscellaneous information
Native to: Australia.
Planting season: not specified.
Types of fertiliser: not specified.
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