The Verbena Adds Brilliant Color To Any Flowerbed Garden

About the Verbena

For a bright splash of color try planting the Verbena. This annual bedding plant creates that 'extra' zip of continued color in any container or flowerbed garden. The brilliant primrose-like flower clusters of the Verbena catch my eye at every garden centre. I cannot walk past them without picking up at least 6 of the trailing variety (peruviana) for my containers.

How To Grow the Verbena

This annual bedding plant like all others requires snipping off the spent blooms heads (deadheading). If not, it just takes that much longer for new stems to grow and bloom, ergo many people have asked why their plants are not blooming.

If you want a bushier upright annual in your flowerbed garden, try pinching out the tips of the new plants prior to planting in the ground.

If the annual is under performing towards mid season, it can be cut back and re-grow.

The trailing variety does best when planted on its own in a hanging basket. If planted in a container, great companion plants are: Geraniums, African Daisy, Alyssum, Calendula or the Salvia Victoria Blue.

Great companion plants for the upright variety: Ageratum Blue Hawaii, Dusty Miller, Alyssum, Ajug groundcover and the Calendula especially if mixed with the Verbena variety Peaches and Cream.

Check out my Site Index Page for a listing of additional annuals and perennials to plant in your flower garden design.

Verbena Features:

• grow 8" to 15" in length
• water when dry
• remember to deadhead if you want the plant to keep blooming
• plant in hot, dry areas if you are planting the garden variety
• prefer sun but will tolerate some shade
• great for garden, containers, window boxes, hanging planters
• blooms well into the fall time
• watch out for powdery mildew on the leaves if they stay wet for too long
• attracts bees and butterflies

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