Ipomoea batatas ‘Black Hearts' ~ SolarPower™ Black Hearts Sweet Potato blue-bloom The arching foliage is dark

The arching foliage is dark green with silvery margins keeps its color year round

COMPANION PLANTS:  Astilbe

Flowering stems with branching clusters of waxy red trumpet shaped flowers with yellow faces bloom through summer into fall

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Ipomoea batatas ‘Black Hearts' ~ SolarPower™ Black Hearts Sweet Potato blue-bloom The arching foliage is darkBlack Hearts Sweet Potato is an ornamental cultivar of the herbaceous perennial with a mounding habit and trailing stems that is grown as a groundcover. The large arrow shaped foliage that emerges grey green and deepens to bronze and purple black with maturity. Blooms in spring, but are often removed to encourage foliage health. Best color with full sun and consistently moist well drained soils. Ornamental cultivars do not flower, and while still