Garden verbenas are divided into two basic categories – annual verbenas and perennial verbenas. Early to midfall and late winter into early spring are the best times to plant trailing verbenas.

Verbena is a popular perennial among Louisiana gardeners. (Mai Sukhothai) Louisiana gardeners and butterflies love verbena. We celebrate this low-growing perennial for its showy flower clusters and ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Fields of purple verbena have filled my garden since early summer - intertwining with perennials, mingling in with the annuals. These hardy volunteers of the verbena plants I ...

The Homestead Purple verbena has stood the test of time partnering beauty and a rugged durability. It likes a well-drained site in full sun. It’s just hard to improve on the best. Such is the case ...

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If you've been working through your fall to-do list for the garden of your dreams, you may be busy removing damaged or diseased foliage, raking up leaves to use as mulch, and composting any spent ...

One of the must-have garden plants of recent years, the purple-top verbena gets it common name from the small cushions of purple flowers carried at the top of its tall, rigid stems. These stems can ...

Q: I have an acre of native grasses that I normally mow one time per year, usually in January. This year I wasn’t able to do that, and now I have numerous purple verbena plants growing across it. I’d ...

Sometimes it’s just hard to improve on the best. Such is the case with the Homestead Purple verbena. For more than 20 years it has stood the test of time as the verbena to which all others are ...

Pentas, lantana, verbena, zinnia, salvias (many different species and cultivars), Mexican butterfly weed (Asclepias curassavica) and buddleia are excellent flowering plants to attract butterflies to ...

Question: I have a trailing purple verbena that won't bloom. It is in a container, not in the ground, and gets lots of sun. What is the problem? This web page from GardenGuides.com can give you some ...