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

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Ipomoea (Sweet potato vine) Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Red
By Proven Winners

	Score	Rank
Overall	4.1	8
Plot uniformity	4.1	3
Flowering	N/A	N/A
Foliage	4.0	15
Landscape value	4.1	8
Score: 5=highest; 1=lowest Rank: Out of 178 Need to figure out where to point this: More about this data

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

June 15 view
June 15: fades a little, unattractive greening of leaves, varying stages adds to interest, liked the color better last evening.

June 30 view
June 30: filled in quickly, Japanese beetles, color contrast between new and old leaves is very nice, great structure/shape, brown color isn't the best, unnatractive green cast on older leaves, color doesn't do it for me, huge foliage.

July 15 view
July 15: Japanese beetles, color variation great, foliage has nice color contrast, very vigorous.

July 30 view
July 30: wonderful hedge, aggressive, little Japanese beetle damage, love different leaf color.

August 15 view
Aug 15: climbing up King Tut = interesting, very aggressive, Japanese beetle damage, like the new green growth, huge.
August 30 view
Aug 30: aggressive, Japanese beetle damage, nice variation in leaf color.

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