Verbena Hybrid Mix

Verbena Hybrida

Characteristics

Culture

Verbena Hybrid Mix is winter hardy to USDA Zones 9-10. Grown as an annual in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun, it tolerates light shade, but best flowering usually occurs in full sun. Plants have good heat and drought tolerance. Avoid overhead watering to the extent possible. Place plants outdoors in spring after last frost date. Young plants may be pinched to promote bushier growth. Deadhead spent flowers to encourage additional bloom. Verbena Hybrid Mix plants may decline in summer periods of prolonged hot and dry conditions. Cuttings may be taken in late summer and overwintered indoors. Container plantings may also be overwintered indoors.

Noteworthy Characteristics

Verbena x hybrida, commonly called Garden Verbena, is a short-lived perennial that is grown outside Zone 9-10 as an annual. It is noted for its profuse bloom of small five-petaled flowers in rounded clusters (to 3” wide) from late spring to fall on plants ranging in size from mat-forming/trailing (to 10” tall) to bushy/upright (to 20: tall). Verbena Hybrid Mix flower colors include blue, violet, purple, rose, dark red, yellow, white and bicolor. Some varieties are fragrant. Oblong toothed leaves (to 4” long) are gray-green to dark green.

The genus name comes from a Latin name used for some plants in religious ceremonies and also in medicine. The specific epithet means hybrid.

Problems

 No serious insect or disease problems.

Garden Uses

Plant Verbena Hybrid Mix in beds, borders, rock gardens, edging or annual ground cover. Window boxes and containers. Trailing types for hanging baskets.

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Courtesy of Missouri Botanical Society Plant Finder