The Mosquito Plant is an attractive, all-natural solution that's completely safe!

Are swarming mosquitoes preventing you from enjoying your patio or deck? Do you prefer not to use dangerous chemicals in your environment or on your body? Here's an attractive solution that's all natural and completely safe. It looks pretty, it smells lovely, and it won't harm you or the environment!

The Mosquito Plant is a genetically engineered hybrid geranium with a unique characteristic: it repels mosquitoes! It is easily grown as a potted patio plant, and easily enjoyed for its attractive foliage and sweet lemony scent, as well as for its mosquito repelling powers. It produces a leafy, attractive, foot-tall plant during its first season.

Created by a Dutch botanist, the Mosquito Plant has genetically incorporated traits of the Chinese citronella grass into a scented African geranium. The resulting cultivar has the growth and habit of the geranium, and the sweet lemony citronella scent of citronella grass. Citronella is the substance in citronella candles which have long been used to deter mosquitoes. It doesn't harm them, but they don't like citronella and avoid it. It is most effective as a repellent if you crush a few leaves and rub them on your skin. This releases the citronella and a sweet perfume.

Like most geraniums, the Mosquito Plant is normally potted and grown outdoors during the warm season (after last and before first frosts). During the colder seasons the plants can be wintered-over indoors. In warmer southern zones Mosquito Plants can be grown outdoors year-round where the plants can reach a mature size of 3 to 4 feet high and wide.

Planting and Care:

New plants can be potted in a 4-inch or larger pot. Or they can be grouped in a patio planter spaced a foot apart. Use any potting soil recommended for geraniums. Keep watered and occasionally feed with a soluble plant food, as you would any potted plant. Mosquito Plants like full sun, but do well in partial shade. In the fall, you can move the plants indoors to enjoy as houseplants, or winter them over with your other geraniums in a heated garage, near a window or under grow lights.

During the summer, put potted plants on patio tables and near lounges to keep mosquitoes at bay. For even more protection, crush and rub the leaves on your skin for a sweet, natural perfume that 'bugs' mosquitoes.

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