Some ten years ago, my wife and I visited the Turtle Bay Garden Nursery, adjacent to the Sun Dial Bridge and the Turtle Bay Arboretum. This nursery offers native, drought ...

Direct sow verbena seeds in the fall, as cold exposure helps. Known also as homestead purple and trailing verbena due to its low, spreading habit, it grows 12 inches tall and 2 feet wide.

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 ...