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 ...

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 ...

These hardy volunteers of the verbena plants I bought about 10 years ago -a variety known as 'Homestead Purple'- reseed so easily I end up with thousands of them each year and I pinch them out ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This year I wasn’t able to do that, and now I have numerous purple verbena plants growing across it. I’d like to let them reseed themselves.