Glandularia Seabrook's Lavender - Florist's Verbena

Glandularia 'Seabrook's Lavender', also marketed as 'Sealav', is a perennial and frost-tender plant, grown as an annual. After planting, it quickly forms a bushy and creeping clump of light green foliage, which is soon covered with umbels of lavender-pink flowers with dark centres, that are also fragrant. It is best planted in full sun in pots and hanging baskets, or in summer borders. Even though it only lasts one year, it is a generous and undemanding plant that tolerates drought, watering neglect, and poor soils.

Glandularia 'Seabrook's Lavender' belongs to the Verbenaceae family and is a horticultural hybrid whose ancestors inhabited the hot 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 upright and gracefully trailing stems, which lengthen as dense clusters of tiny lavender-pink flowers with dark centres bloom, resembling phlox flowers. This perennial plant succumbs to frost, so it is grown as an annual in our climate.

Garden verbenas are plants for somewhat neglectful or absent gardeners rather than meticulous gardeners. They suffer from excessive watering or feeding, but not from occasional watering neglect. They are superb annuals for hanging baskets or for filling in between various perennial plants in containers or borders, thanks to their trailing and upright habit. Their fragrant flowers are very decorative. In pots, combine them with other annuals such as morning glories, pelargoniums, and scaevola, along with carex grasses.

Note: Please be aware that our plug plants are products intended for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant and store them in a sheltered location (veranda, greenhouse, cold frame...) at a temperature above 14°C (57.2°F) for a few weeks before being planted outdoors once all risk of frost has passed.