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Plants => Nice Plants => Topic started by: nikoroma on May 15, 2016, 07:27:31 PM

Title: Verbena venosa
Post by: nikoroma on May 15, 2016, 07:27:31 PM

http://www.ideasforgardens.net/nicola/verbena-venosa/index.html

Title: Re: verbena venosa
Post by: ideasguy on May 16, 2016, 08:20:37 AM

I love all Verbenas, Nicola. You have an amazing collection of plants there!
Better still, you can do wonders with the plants you have in pots  8). That one looks real good.

Heres an article about Verbenas:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3394800/Sarah-Raven-on-Verbenas-Autumn-lights.html

You'll see that Verbena venosa is a synonym of Verbena rigida (which is in the Ideas Genie Pro 6 (http://www.ideasgenie.co.uk) Master Database - now in the background of your program providing predictive text):

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Also on display is a magnificent late-season combination of Verbena rigida (syn. V. venosa)

I bought one of these a few years ago. Ive been struggliong to keep it alive!
I have to dig it up frequently, pot it up and give it TLC to get it to recover.

Note also (same article):

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We may have rather overdone our enthusiasm for the tall, thin Verbena bonariensis

This one now self seeds around my garden! It is now in the strawberry patch. I'm not complaining :D. Its not a vigorous self seeder here at any rate. If they did they would make nice cut flowers as seen in the photo in the above article.