Annual Flower Trials at Bluegrass Lane, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University

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Ipomoea batatas Sidekick Black Palmate
By Syngenta Flowers

	Score	Rank
Overall	3.3	93
Plot uniformity	3.7	28
Flowering	NA	NA
Foliage	2.9	152
Landscape value	3.2	99
Score: 5=highest; 1=lowest Rank: Out of 236 More about this data

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30 June	15 July	30 July
15 Aug	30 Aug	15 Sept

Comments: July 1: love the texture, nice and compact, no insect damage, great leaf shape, very uniform; July 15: great plant, color of leaves uneven, fading a little, mounds; Aug 1: Japanese Beetles - sink plant, damage very bad; Aug 15: Japanese beetle damage, less new growth than Black Heart; Sept 1: nice, recovering from Japanese beetles, not as vigorous as Black Heart; Sept 15: nice flush of new foliage after Japanese beetle damage.

June 30 view
30 June

July 15 view
15 July

July 30 view
30 July

August 15 view
15 Aug

August 30 view
30 Aug
September 15 view
15 Sept

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