The Ice Ballet tropical milkweed enriches every garden with its impressive, flowering tufts. This large plant, 90 to 120 centimetres of height, produce magnificent clusters of white flowers. They grow in leaf axils and form large clusters. After the flowering period, the plant is adorned with pods filled with fluffy seeds. They rise gently in the wind, spreading across the land. Subtle, vanilla-like scent that accompanies the long flowering period that spreads from July to August makes this plant an agreeable garden companion. Tropical milkweed belongs to plants recommended for natural plantings, spacious flower beds in humid areas, or growing right by a pond or water reservoir. Tropical milkweed Ice Ballet is of great use for bees and other pollinating insects. You can plant it in previously barren plot parts that it would quickly naturalize. Stems crowned with scented white blooms make great cut flower.

Tropical milkweed is a plant for a sunny and warm situation, though it also tolerates partial shade. It requires a humous, fertile, moist soil, even though the latter is not a must, as this species survives water shortages quite well. Clay, mediocre, or even slightly waterlogging soil by a pond should not do the plant any harm. An easy to grow, hardy tropical milkweed is a splendid perennial that many gardeners would enjoy.

Each package contains one seedling of the tropical milkweed Ice Ballet. Basic plant facts and growing tips can be found on package label.

• Variety: Ice Ballet
• Use: ornamental - garden, cut flower
• Growth form: erect
• Flower colour: white
• Vegetation form: perennial
• Site: sunny or partial shade, warm; humous, fertile, moist soil
• Bulbs: 1
• Height: 90 to 120 centimetres
• Flowering period: July to August
• Wintering in the ground?: yes