Lantana 'New Gold' - 3.5 inch Pots (Minimum Quantity: 25 Plants)

Lantana ‘New Gold’ is a sun-worshiping perennial that brings a blaze of golden-yellow color to the garden all season long. Low-growing and spreading, this cultivar stays compact—about 12 to 18 inches tall—but covers ground like a living carpet of sunshine. Its clusters of deep golden blooms attract butterflies, bees, and the occasional hummingbird, all while laughing off drought, heat, and sandy soils. With clean, dark green foliage and a mounding habit, New Gold is ideal for hanging baskets, borders, and even tough roadside plantings where lesser plants would wither.

For gardeners seeking unrelenting color and ironclad resilience, Lantana ‘New Gold’ is a tried-and-true champion. Plant it in full sun, give it room to roam, and you’ll be rewarded with wave after wave of color well into autumn. Whether you're restoring a tired border or crafting a pollinator haven, don’t overlook this golden gem. Add ‘New Gold’ to your garden today—because tough, beautiful, and bulletproof plants still exist.

Name(s): Lantana x 'New Gold', Lantana.

Flower Color: Golden yellow.

Bloom Time: Spring to fall, year-round in frost-free climates.

Foliage: Herbaceous to evergreen, fuzzy, aromatic.

Height/Spread: 12 inches x 24 inches.

Climate Zones: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

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Sun Exposure: Full sun.

Soil Condition: Well-drained to dry, average to poor, pH 6.1 to 7.8.

Features: 1995 Georgia Gold Medal Award winner, drought tolerant, salt tolerant, deer resistant, fragrant, attracts butterflies.

Uses: Xeriscaping, butterfly gardens, coastal gardens, shrub borders.

Comments: Lantana x 'New Gold' is one of the most popular lantanas ever and was named the 1995 Georgia Gold Medal Award winner. 'New Gold' is covered with golden yellow flowers from late spring until frost. Deciduous to evergreen foliage is aromatic. Mature height is 12 inches x 24 inches spread.

Lantana prefers full sun in USDA climate zones 7 to 11. Average well-drained garden soil is fine. It adapts to a wide variety of soil types, even sandy soils, and tolerates various pH levels. Space 18 inches to 24 inches apart.

Lantana attracts butterflies. Attracted species include Spicebush Swallowtail, Zebra Heliconian, American Lady, Cabbage White, Clouded Skipper, Fiery Skipper, Dun Skipper, Crossline Skipper, Eufala Skipper, Least Skipper, Ocola Skipper, Pecks Skipper, Zabulon Skipper, Tawny-edged Skipper, Silver-Spotted Skipper, Orange Sulphur, Clouded Sulphur, Pipevine Swallowtail, Zebra Swallowtail, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Black Swallowtail, Gray Hairstreak, Red-Banded Hairstreak, Great Southern White, Variegated Fritillary, Great Spangled Fritillary, Hayhurst’s Scallopwing, Horace’s Duskywing, Wild Indigo Duskywing, Little Glassywing, Monarch, Painted Lady, Pearl Crescent, Sachem, Silvery Checkerspot.

Lantana is very deer resistant, drought tolerant and salt tolerant. If cold weather freezes the tops, lantana will re-emerge from the crown. We cut lantana back to the ground every winter.

Lantana is perfect for shrub borders, mixed borders, xeriscaping and coastal gardens. Aromatic foliage makes it a fine companion plant for the vegetable garden.

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