Verbena spp.   (ver-BEAN-ah)
Perennial  Sun        

HABIT: Low, spreading perennial, blooms red, white, salmon, purple all summer.

CULTURE: Easy to grow in well-drained beds, low water and fertilization requirements.

USES: Summer color.

PROBLEMS: Red spider mites occasionally.

NOTES: The natives are prairie verbena (V. bipinnatifida) and moss verbena (V. tenuisecta). Pink Parfait is a beautiful, large-flowered evergreen. The cultivated varieties are good as well.

VERBENA, ALMOND
Sweet Almond Verbena (Aloysia virgata) is a sweetly fragrant perennial or deciduous shrub with spikes of white blooms summer to fall. Prune in early spring and between bloom cycles for denser growth. Plant in full sun to part shade. Grows to 10'. Looks like butterfly bush (Buddleia)

Sweet Almond Verbena (Aloysia virgata) is a sweetly fragrant perennial or deciduous shrub with spikes of white blooms summer to fall. Prune in early spring and between bloom cycles for denser growth. Plant in full sun to part shade. Grows to 10'. Looks like butterfly bush (Buddleia)


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