Bandana Cherry Lantana

Lantana camara 'Bandana Cherry' (Lantana camara 'Bandana Cherry') is a vivaciously colorful, heat-defying flowering shrub that brings a bold, celebratory bicolor display of yellow and cherry-red to the warm-season garden with a prolific, non-stop flowering performance that rivals any other summer ornamental for sheer, sustained color energy. The Bandana series is celebrated throughout the horticultural industry for its exceptional compactness, outstanding disease resistance, and remarkable heat and drought tolerance — and 'Bandana Cherry' delivers all of that reliable series performance in a vivid, high-contrast yellow-and-cherry-red palette that radiates cheerful warmth and tropical energy from planting through the first frost. Each rounded flower cluster opens in vivid yellow, maturing to cherry red as the individual florets age — creating a multi-toned, simultaneously bicolor display where fresh yellow and mature cherry-red appear side by side on every cluster at every stage of the season.

This professional-grade 4" plant arrives with a healthy, well-established root system cultivated through professional horticultural practices — ready to establish and grow vigorously into the heat of summer. 'Bandana Cherry' excels in mixed border arrangements, patio containers, hanging baskets, and landscape beds where consistent, high-impact color performance through the hottest months of the growing season is the priority. It is outstanding combined with deep purple verbenas, chartreuse sweet potato vine, and silver-leaved companions for richly layered, tropical-inspired warm-season combinations of genuine energy and seasonal impact.

• Vivid Yellow & Cherry-Red Bicolor Flower Clusters: Rounded flower clusters opening in vivid yellow and maturing to rich cherry-red create a dynamic, simultaneously bicolor display where both colors appear together on every cluster — a warm, high-contrast, continuously evolving color performance that radiates cheerful tropical energy throughout the full warm season.
• Non-Stop Bloom from Planting Through Frost: Flowers continuously and abundantly throughout the warm growing season without deadheading required — one of the most prolific and heat-resilient flowering shrubs available, delivering uninterrupted high-impact color from the moment it goes in the ground to the first fall frost.
• Bandana Series Compact, Well-Branched Form: The notably compact, tidy, freely branching Bandana series habit delivers a full, lush, flowering presence in a space-efficient package — perfectly scaled for containers, patio arrangements, front-of-border placement, and mixed bed use where bold color in a manageable form is essential.
• Exceptional Heat & Drought Tolerance: Thrives in the most demanding summer heat and tolerates dry conditions with admirable resilience once established — performing most brilliantly in the hottest, sunniest, most challenging positions where many other ornamentals fade or struggle through the peak of summer.
• Butterfly & Hummingbird Magnet: The densely produced, nectar-rich flower clusters are powerfully attractive to butterflies, hummingbirds, and beneficial insects throughout the long bloom season — making 'Bandana Cherry' one of the most ecologically valuable and wildlife-rich flowering shrubs available for warm-season garden designs.

These 4" healthy live plants thrive in full sun (6–8 hours daily) with well-drained, average to lean soil and moderate moisture; avoid consistently wet conditions and overly fertile soil that promote excessive foliage at the expense of prolific flowering. Water regularly during establishment, then reduce to moderate supplemental irrigation. Treat as a tender perennial or warm-season annual depending on climate; frost-sensitive. USDA Hardiness Zones 9–11; grown as a warm-season annual in cooler climates. Mature height: 18–24 inches; spread: 18–24 inches. Bloom time: late spring through first frost.