Verbena hybrida Estrella Pink Ballet

Verbena Pink Ballet from the excellent 'Estrella' series is a disease-resistant plant with a beautifully trailing habit that remains compact and adorable pastel flowers that will last until the first frost. It produces numerous round umbels filled with small pink flowers that turn white, transforming the plant into an adorable pastel and romantic display.  Grown as an annual, it is ideal for pots and hanging baskets, and lovely in summer flower beds. It is a generous, blooming and undemanding plant that tolerates drought, forgetful watering, and poor soil, but requires full sun.

Verbena 'Estrella Pink Ballet' belongs to the verbena family and is a recent horticultural hybrid, whose ancestors inhabited the warm regions of South America. This plant forms a compact yet trailing clump, reaching 30 cm (12in) in height and spreading about 50 cm (20in). Its stems are adorned with delicate, slightly villous, medium green foliage. Relentlessly from June until October, it produces gently trailing upright stems that lengthen as round and dense bouquets of tiny flowers appear, ranging in colour from pale pink to candy pink, gradually fading to white, resembling those of phlox. This perennial plant succumbs to frost and is grown as an annual in our climate, thanks to its rapid growth.

The Pink Ballet verbenas are truly easy to grow, suffering more from excess water and food than from occasional neglect. They overflow from hanging baskets and weave between other upright plants in flower pots or containers, hiding their feet without suffering from their presence. They are also beautiful in rock gardens, allowing you to quickly fill in the empty spaces caused by damage from a harsh winter. Create a beautiful hanging display by combining Pink Ballet verbena with a red or white geranium or a lavender blue Bacopa, a purple-leaved sweet potato vine, and intense blue lobelias.

Note: Attention, our plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant and store them in a sheltered area (veranda, greenhouse, cold frame...) at a temperature above 14C° for a few weeks before planting them outdoors once the risk of frost has definitively passed.