Louisiana gardeners have long been familiar with verbenas. These generally low-growing plants produce clusters of showy flowers in a wide variety of colors. Homestead Purple verbena is considered ...

In fact, the LSU AgCenter has selected Homestead Purple verbena as one of the very best, naming it a "Louisiana Super Plant" for fall 2015. Garden verbenas are divided into two basic categories ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. A nice annual garden mixer is Meteor Shower verbena (Verbena bonariensis ‘Meteor Shower’), named after its lovely show of violet-purple flower clusters.

A purple verbena plant growing out of a plastic terracotta-look planter on a concrete patio© mtahirh114/Shutterstock A bunch of rattlesnake master plants growing in planter with a large garden in ...

Annual verbena happily basks in 8 to 10 hours of sunlight each day. These plants thrive in well-drained locations where the soil doesn’t stay overly moist.

There are a handful of plants that have "verbena" in their name, and not many are tall, slim specimens. Purple top (Verbena bonariensis) and blue (Verbena hastata) verbenas provide prime verticality.

View full sizeWhite hybrid verbena shines in a stone container.Verbena, a member of the Verbenaceae family, with about 250 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants, is native to both ...

Although our webpage on the verbena says it needs part shade, which we define as 2-6 hours of sun a day, other websites say that verbena needs full sun, up to 8 to 10 hours a day of sun.

Living That bluish-purple flowering plant is called Vitex Published: Jul. 13, 2012, 6:00 p.m. By Harvey Cotten, Huntsville Botanical Garden ...

There are a handful of plants that have "verbena" in their name, and not many are tall, slim specimens. Purple top (Verbena bonariensis) and blue (Verbena hastata) verbenas provide prime verticality.