Verbena is a popular perennial among Louisiana gardeners. (Mai Sukhothai) Louisiana gardeners and butterflies love verbena. We celebrate this low-growing perennial for its showy flower clusters and ...

Garden verbenas are divided into two basic categories – annual verbenas and perennial verbenas. Early to midfall and late winter into early spring are the best times to plant trailing verbenas.

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 ...

The Homestead Purple verbena has stood the test of time partnering beauty and a rugged durability. It likes a well-drained site in full sun. It’s just hard to improve on the best. Such is the case ...

Homestead Purple is the best of the perennial verbenas for Louisiana. Dark purple flowers are attractive on the dark green foliage. Verbenas need full sun. Soil pH is not critical. Verbenas are fairly ...

Verbena, a member of the Verbenaceae family, with about 250 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants, is native to both North and South America. Sometimes referred to as vervain, verbenas ...

“Homestead Purple” verbena (Verbena canadensis) stands out among other perennial verbenas, says LSU AgCenter horticulturist Allen Owings at the Hammond Research Station. “Many times, perennial ...

Pentas, lantana, verbena, zinnia, salvias (many different species and cultivars), Mexican butterfly weed (Asclepias curassavica) and buddleia are excellent flowering plants to attract butterflies to ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - It's back! A perennial favorite in my garden is a purple powerhouse that's been blooming for weeks already - Verbena. You often see annual Verbena used in hanging baskets since it ...

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 tolerant plants that thrive ...

Q. Every year my annual verbena becomes covered with a white powdery substance that I assume is powdery mildew disease. What can I do to avoid the disease? Can it be treated? A.Powdery mildew is a ...

Today we will be discussing a must plant for butterfly – and indeed all pollinator – gardens. This plant is the industrious Verbena bonariensis. Bonariensis. What a mouthful. All those vowels and ...