Here’s how long you’re able to expect verbena to last in your garden.
The answer depends on which throw in of verbena you’re growing and your local climate.
Here’s how long you could expect your verbena plants to last.
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Is Verbena a Perennial?
Verbena is a diverse group of plantswith both annual and perennial species.
They can bloom for weeks and attract pollinators.
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Plant tags or descriptionsoften list verbenas as half-hardy annuals.
What does that mean?
Verbena perennials are primarily short-lived, lasting only a few years.
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Garden Verbena
Garden verbena (Verbenaxhybrida) is the most commonly grown key in.
Its available in single and bicolor flowers in dozens of colors.
Many have a trailing habit andwork well in hanging baskets, planters, and window boxes.
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Upright varieties of garden verbena areexcellent for flower bedsand large planters.
Newer hybrids tolerate heat and dry conditions well and requireless deadheading.
Blue Vervain
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Blue vervain (Verbena hastata) is anative wildflower that attracts pollinators.
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Its blooms are arrayed in a group of spikes that look like a candelabra.
They open likesnapdragons, with bottom blooms opening first and proceeding up the stalk.
Unlike many verbenas, blue vervain will tolerate wetter soil.
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It is hardy in Zones 3-8.
Purpletop Vervain
Purpletop vervain (Verbena bonariensis) is hardy in Zones 7-11.
Rose Verbena
Rose verbena (Verbena canadensis) is native to much of the mid-South United States.
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It’s more cold tolerant than many verbenas and is hardy in Zones 5-9.
It does best in drier, sandy soils and grows in a mounded shape, spreading along the ground.
Rose verbena is excellent forrock gardensor thefront edge of perennial borders.
This verbena, native to South America but naturalized in the American South, spreads by rhizomes.
It flowers in 2-3 inch clusters of lilac-colored blooms and does well in containers.
It’s actually a woody shrub hardy in Zones 8-11.
Plant them outside about thesame time as your tomatoesand other warm-loving plants.
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Avoidthese common mistakeswhen planting perennials, and you’ll be rewarded with colorful blooms.
Get started withthis garden planand add pink, purple, and yellow blossoms.
However, it will still keep up some amount of flowering even if you forget.
Verbenas are deer-resistant and are often ignored in favor of other, tastier plants by hoofed browsers.
They are also rabbit-resistant, especially as the plants get older and tougher.
Verbena flowers don’t have much of a scent, but many people think verbena foliage smells lemon-like.
Others report the scent as clean and uplifting.
And for some, it doesn’t smell like anything.
