Orient Express eggplant
Solanum melongena 'Orient Express'
USDA zones9 to 12
SunNeeds full sun (6+ hours)
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
Size8 to 10 inches tall
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Habit
- Erect
- Bloom season
- Summer, autumn
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
'Orient Express' eggplant (Solanum melongena 'Orient Express') is a vegetable for food gardens, containers, and borders. It is typically grown as an annual. It is tender to cold, and the first hard frost will kill it. This plant likes full sun and average to moist soil of most types. It grows as an erect plant and blooms from early to late summer. Bees visit the flowers, and gardeners call it the most dependable Asian eggplant.
Pairs well with Hungarian Wax Hot Pepper, Kent Beauty oregano, and Ellagance Purple lavender.