Sprout Home Plant Of The Week: Euphorbia Breathless White

A Maintenance-Free Plant That Can Survive In 32 Degrees
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Are you looking for a maintenance free plant that can take the heat of the summer months? Euphorbia Breathless White is a go-to staple for containers, baskets or corners of your yard where you're looking for something pretty. These full and mounded plants bloom the entire season and don't require any dead heading.

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Photo by Ball Horticultural Company.

Euphorbia Breathless White is tolerant of all zones down to 32 degrees Fahrenheit and each plant is thickly packed with white blooms that give the plant color for the entire summer. These plants don't require much in the way of watering and are drought tolerant while still feeling lush. The plants can spread up to two feet and will reach heights of up to 15 inches if kept happy and that makes them the perfect filler for all your annual needs as they fill in fast!

Keep your Euphorbia Breathless happy by giving it full sun (though it can handle partial shade) and you'll be rewarded from spring through fall with dense flowers that keep on coming. But this sweet white flower does have a dark side: It's poisonous if ingested and does have a milky white sap that can be a skin irritant to some. Beautiful and deadly, what a funny sense of humor Mother Nature has sometimes.

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