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When to Plant Four-o-clock flower in Indian Wells, CA

One of the best tools that you have as gardeners to help us estimate your gardening schedule is the USDA zone info. The zone info helps tell us things like average date of last frost and lowest expected temperature for your area.

A common way of making a decision about when it's possible to plant four-o-clock flower is to examine the USDA zone info for Indian Wells.

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Planting Calendar for Four-o-clock flower

Frost tolerance for four-o-clock flower: Not tolerant of frost.
When to plant: After all chance of frost has passed.

It's not a good idea to plant four-o-clock flower until after the last frost has passed because they do not do well in cold weather.

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A good time to plant four-o-clock flower
Possibly ok, but a risky time to plant four-o-clock flower
Probably not a good time to plant four-o-clock flower

The earliest that you can plant four-o-clock flower in Indian Wells is March. However, you really should wait until April if you don't want to take any chances.

The last month that you can plant four-o-clock flower and expect a good harvest is probably September. If you wait any later than that and your four-o-clock flower may not have a chance to fully mature. You can get started a few weeks earlier by starting your four-o-clock flower indoors.

Last Frost Date

On average the last frost has passed is on February 15 in Indian Wells. It might get as low as 25°F during the coldest months of winter.

Just be sure to remember that USDA zone info for Indian Wells may not be accurate from year to year and the actual date of last frost will vary from year to year. Half of the time in Indian Wells last frost occurs after February 15 so be sure to be ready to protect your four-o-clock flower in the event of a surprise late frost.

USDA Zone Info for Indian Wells

Here is the info for USDA Zone 9b.

Average Date of Last Frost (spring)February 15
Average Date of First Frost (fall)December 15
Lowest Expected Low25°F
Highest Expected Low30°F

This means that on a really cold year, the coldest it will get is 25°F. On most years you should be prepared to experience lows near 30°F.

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