Homestead Purple verbena is considered one of the very best, and it has been selected as a Louisiana Super Plant for fall 2015. Garden verbenas are divided into two basic categories – annual ...

1) Homestead Purple is the first trailing verbena to begin flowering in early spring. 2) It is the most cold-hardy verbena, reliably surviving temperatures in the mid-teens.

Upright varieties like V. bonariensis, or tall verbena, bring dramatic height to beds.They grow as tall as 3 to 6 feet and 1 to 3 feet wide. This light and airy giant provides a soft, flowing ...

1) Homestead Purple is the first trailing verbena to begin flowering in early spring. 2) It is the most cold-hardy verbena, reliably surviving temperatures in the mid-teens.

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 ...

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.

*Scientific name:Verbena X hybrida*Growth habit:A trailing perennial often planted as an annual growing to 12 inches tall and 2 feet wide. The leaves are medium to dark green, ovate in shape with ...

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 ...

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 ...