Ipomoea batatas 'Margie Compact' ~ Margie Compact Sweet Potato-ServeScape
Ipomoea batatas 'Margie Compact' ~ Margie Compact Sweet Potato-ServeScape
Ipomoea batatas 'Margie Compact' ~ Margie Compact Sweet Potato-ServeScape
Ipomoea batatas 'Margie Compact' ~ Margie Compact Sweet Potato-ServeScape
Ipomoea batatas 'Margie Compact' ~ Margie Compact Sweet Potato-ServeScape
Ipomoea batatas 'Margie Compact' ~ Margie Compact Sweet Potato-ServeScape
Ipomoea batatas 'Margie Compact' ~ Margie Compact Sweet Potato-ServeScape
Ipomoea batatas 'Margie Compact' ~ Margie Compact Sweet Potato-ServeScape

Ipomoea batatas 'Margie Compact'

Margie Compact Sweet Potato

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**Dormancy Note - This plant may be currently dormant for the fall/winter! It is still available for purchase! Your delivered plant may be dormant, or showing very little top growth. However, you can still plant! These plants are putting all their energy into root production, so they will be ready to thrive in the spring! If you have any issues with your plant the following peak season, you can fill out our return request form to request a replacement plant.

Margie Compact Sweet Potato is a small ornamental cultivar of the herbaceous perennial with a mounding habit and trailing stems that is grown as a groundcover. The pointed, deeply lobed lime green foliage becomes lighter with more sun.  Best color with full sun and consistently moist well-drained soils.   Ornamental cultivars do not flower, and while still edible are not as tasty.

Type: 

Annual

Height: 

0.5' - 1'

Spread: 

1' - 2'

Spacing: 

1.5’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 

9 - 11

Culture: 

Full Sun, Part Sun  

Bloom Color: 

N/A

Season of Interest: 

Multi-Season

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:  Low maintenance.  Fungal leaf diseases can be somewhat common. Watch for slugs, thrips, and flea beetles.

LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Wildlife Gardens, Naturalized Areas, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS: Geranium, Verbena, Petunia

IMAGES: Raffi Kojian, Gardenology.org-IMG 2908 rbgs11jan, CC BY-SA 3.0, (2) Michael Rivera, Fountain in park next to Hotel Indigo, Savannah, CC BY-SA 4.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.

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Ipomoea batatas 'Margie Compact' ~ Margie Compact Sweet Potato-ServeScape

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