Verbena hybrida Lavender White

This Lavender White Verbena is a trailing perennial plant with creeping stems that is adorned from summer to autumn with numerous umbels of small light lavender flowers with a white centre on broad, slightly villous and light green foliage. Cultivated as an annual, it is ideal for pots and hanging baskets, and lovely in summer borders. It is a generous, floriferous and undemanding plant that tolerates drought, neglect and poor soils, but requires full sun. This vigorous selection is resistant to powdery mildew.

Verbena 'Lilac Eye' belongs to the Verbenaceae family, it is a horticultural hybrid whose ancestors inhabited the warm regions of South America. This plant forms a compact and trailing clump, reaching a height of 40 cm (16in) and spreading about 50 cm (20in). It tirelessly produces erect, gracefully trailing stems from early summer to the first frosts, which elongate at the same time as the dense clusters of tiny lavender flowers with a white centre, reminiscent of phlox. This perennial plant is susceptible to frost, but is grown as an annual in our climates, thanks to its rapid growth.

Garden verbenas are truly easy plants to grow, suffering more from excess water and nutrients than from temporary neglect. They overflow from hanging baskets, slip between other upright plants in flower pots or containers, concealing their base without suffering from their presence. They are also very beautiful in rock gardens, allowing you to quickly fill in spaces left empty by damage caused by a harsh winter. Create a beautiful hanging display by combining 'Lilac Eye' verbena with a bright pink pelargonium, a purple-leaved ipomoea, and intense blue lobelias.

Note: Please be aware that our plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant and store them under cover (veranda, greenhouse, cold frame...) at a temperature above 14°C (57.2°F) for a few weeks before placing them outdoors once the risk of frost has been definitively removed.