Overview

Transform your outdoor space into a vibrant haven with this exquisite set of purple verbena live plants. Verbena is a beloved perennial known for its continuous, colorful blooms that last from late spring through fall, adding a touch of elegance to any garden. This offering includes two healthy live plants, ready for transplanting, ensuring a lush and immediate impact on your landscape. Verbena, often called ‘vervain,’ is celebrated for its vigorous growth and ability to attract pollinators, making it an excellent choice for butterfly and bee gardens. These particular verbena plants boast a stunning purple hue, creating a striking contrast against green foliage and other garden colors. Whether you’re an experienced gardener or just starting, these hardy plants promise a rewarding and beautiful display with minimal effort.

Our purple verbena live plants are carefully cultivated to ensure robust health and vitality upon arrival. They are ideal for various planting scenarios, from garden beds and borders to patio containers and hanging baskets. The compact yet spreading nature of verbena allows it to fill spaces beautifully, providing continuous color throughout the growing season. With proper care, these plants will return year after year, offering a reliable source of beauty and charm. Enjoy the enduring appeal of these magnificent flowers, designed to thrive and flourish in your outdoor environment.

Key Benefits

The benefits of incorporating purple verbena live plants into your garden are numerous, offering both aesthetic appeal and ease of care. These plants are a fantastic choice for gardeners seeking continuous color and low maintenance.

• Long-Lasting Blooms: Enjoy a prolonged flowering season from late spring all the way through fall, providing consistent color and beauty when many other plants have faded. The vibrant purple flowers create a spectacular visual display.
• Attracts Pollinators: These perennial verbena flowers are a magnet for butterflies, bees, and other beneficial pollinators, helping to support local ecosystems and enhance the biodiversity of your garden.
• Low Maintenance & Drought Tolerant: Once established, these plants require minimal care and are highly tolerant of drought conditions, making them perfect for busy gardeners or those in drier climates. This makes them a truly low maintenance verbena option.
• Versatile Planting Options: Ideal for a variety of garden applications, including garden beds, borders, rock gardens, containers, and hanging baskets, allowing for creative landscaping designs.
• Hardy Perennial: As a hardy verbena plant, it will return year after year in USDA Zones 7-10, providing consistent beauty without the need for annual replanting.
• Full Sun Performer: Thrives in full sun exposure, ensuring abundant blooms and healthy growth in bright, sunny locations. They are truly excellent verbena for full sun.
• Vibrant Purple Color: The rich purple blooms add a striking and elegant touch to any garden palette, complementing a wide range of other flowering plants.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your purple verbena live plants is straightforward, making them an excellent choice for gardeners of all experience levels. These resilient plants thrive with basic attention, ensuring a beautiful display season after season. For optimal growth and flowering, ensure your verbena receives ample sunlight. They require at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight per day, making them perfect for sunny garden spots or south-facing containers. Well-draining soil is crucial for verbena; avoid heavy, waterlogged soils. A good quality potting mix or garden soil amended with compost will provide the ideal growing medium.

When it comes to watering, verbena prefers moderate moisture. Water regularly after planting to help establish the root system. Once established, these plants become quite drought-tolerant, requiring less frequent watering. Allow the soil to dry out slightly between waterings to prevent root rot. Fertilization is generally not heavily needed for verbena, especially if planted in rich soil. However, a balanced, slow-release granular fertilizer applied in early spring can encourage more vigorous growth and abundant blooms. Deadheading spent flowers regularly will also promote continuous flowering throughout the season and maintain a neat appearance for your perennial verbena flowers.

These purple verbena live plants are hardy in USDA Zones 7-10. If you are in a colder zone, they can be grown as annuals or overwintered indoors in a bright, cool location. Protect them from harsh winter winds and extreme cold. Pests and diseases are rarely a major issue for verbena, but good air circulation can help prevent fungal problems. With these simple care tips, your hardy verbena plant will flourish, providing a spectacular show of color throughout the long growing season.

Size & Details

This offering includes a set of two purple verbena live plants, each cultivated to ensure robust health and readiness for transplanting. Each plant is shipped in a nursery pot, measuring approximately 5 x 5 x 5 inches at the time of dispatch, providing a strong root ball for successful establishment in your garden. Verbena plants typically grow to a mature height of 6-12 inches and can spread up to 18-24 inches, forming a beautiful mounding or spreading habit. They are ideal for filling in garden beds, cascading from containers, or serving as attractive ground cover.

These perennial verbena flowers will begin to bloom from late spring, continuing their vibrant display through the heat of summer and into the fall, offering months of continuous color. They are shipped as actively growing plants, ready to be placed directly into your desired outdoor location. Their moderate growth rate means they will quickly establish and begin to produce their beautiful purple blossoms. Expect them to settle into their new environment within a few weeks, after which they will rapidly expand their presence and floral output.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this plant get? A: These purple verbena live plants typically grow to a height of 6-12 inches and can spread between 18-24 inches, creating a lovely mounding or spreading habit.
• Q: What size pot does it come in? A: Each plant is shipped in a standard nursery pot, approximately 5 x 5 x 5 inches, ensuring a healthy root system for successful transplanting.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: These verbena plants are primarily outdoor plants, thriving in full sun conditions. They are excellent for garden beds, containers, and borders.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: To ensure abundant blooms, verbena requires at least 6-8 hours of full sun exposure daily. It is truly a verbena for full sun.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: Yes, verbena is considered a low-maintenance plant. It’s a low maintenance verbena that tolerates drought once established and requires minimal attention, making it suitable for beginners.
• Q: What condition will it arrive in? A: Your hardy verbena plant will arrive as a healthy, actively growing specimen, carefully packaged to ensure its safety during transit.
• Q: When is the best time to plant? A: The best time to plant these verbena is after the last frost in spring. They will then establish and bloom throughout the summer and fall.
• Q: Will it survive winter in my zone? A: These perennial verbena flowers are hardy in USDA Zones 7-10. In colder zones, they can be grown as annuals or brought indoors for overwintering.
• Q: What type of soil does it prefer? A: Verbena thrives in well-draining soil. Amending garden soil with compost or using a quality potting mix for containers is recommended to ensure good drainage.
• Q: How often should I water these plants? A: Water regularly after planting until established. Once established, they are drought-tolerant and prefer the soil to dry out slightly between waterings, requiring moderate watering.