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I have not seen any butterflies, but it attracts very cute little bees.
Dramatic plant that will attract butterflies to your garden!
This is best planted in the back of other plants where it looks great...Read More
We had a mild winner. Our verbena did not die back to the ground like it usually does. It is mid-April and it's already blooming. It i...Read More
Has anyone else noticed an off-type in their verbena seedlings? Among my self-sown seedlings, I noticed that there were many plants that...Read More
I've had 2 plants in this sandy Florida ground for almost a year and they were great. Suddenly last month they began to fail- looked as i...Read More
I have this plant in my northeastern Minnesota zone 3 yard and it gets pretty cold here. It was -33 below the other day and that's withou...Read More
I wanted to give Verbena bonariensis a neutral or positive rating because I love the plant, the color, form etc, and especially that it's...Read More
This is a beautiful long lasting bloomer in our zone. This is the second season I've had it and no problems with reseeding itself. It ...Read More
got seeds last fall and have still to see any germinate. Sowed some in bare ground, some in pots and left outside over the winter in Loui...Read More
Airy, elegant, and long-blooming.
A pretty and useful self-sowing annual here in Boston Z6a. Self-sows a little too freely...Read More
I have just purchased 2 plants in 10" pots and plan on using them in a newly established butterfly garden. In my region they will not be...Read More
Planted this on the edge of a lawn in Silicon Valley. The sprinkler over-spray seems to be causing powdery mildew on the foliage.
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This is without a doubt one of the very best butterfly attracting plants I have ever planted. Butterflies ignore my buddleia planted rig...Read More
Reseeder, yes, but seedlings easily removed. ATTRACTS BUTTERFLIES like nothing I have ever seen!! Won't be without it.
I bought one of these plants this year, and I hope it self-seeds, as it is not listed as a perennial in my Zone 6b location. Not only is...Read More
I bought one plant several years ago and have never been without them since. They have always come back from the roots and also reseed t...Read More
Like many of the other southerners that have commented here, I like the plant BUT...... yesterday I discovered an entire field of it rig...Read More
I certainly don't remember planting this, but it's slightly over 4 feet tall, looking like a strange candelabra with purple "flames" at t...Read More
Larger and I believe less invasive than Tuber or Stiff Vervain
This does reseed for me, but not invasively so. Surprisingly, even after a cold, long winter, I had some of these come back from the root this year.
Love this, great floater in the gardenn.
I planted a shrub border with one-gallon plants, so there was lots of space between the little shrubs. I planted v. bonariensis in betwe...Read More
I absolutely love this plant! It self sows in my garden but it is always welcome, creating visual interest in unexpected places. Butterfl...Read More
Here in Ottawa the National Capital Commission has been using Verbena bonariensis in concrete boulevard planters downtown for the ...Read More
Love the way it looks, but it is an aggressive reseeder. The seedling have popped up 20 feet from the original plant. Impossible to get...Read More
Although I appreciate it's value to Butterflies, it is an extremely hardy invasive non-native in the US. The US Forst Service lists it a...Read More
Love this plant! It is definitely not invasive in my Olympic Peninsula garden [coastal Washington State] which admittedly tends toward p...Read More
This is actually returning from the roots here in zone 6a after a pretty hard winter. It is not from reseeding, but actually from the ro...Read More
This plant is awesome! I started with (3) 1 quart plants from the local nursery and the next year, I had hundreds of plants! It re-seeded...Read More
This plant not only reseeds like crazy, it is also a perennial in my zone 6 garden. I've got some plants that are 3 years old, the old s...Read More
While I find this perennial very pretty, it can self seed in droves! It loves our Mediterranean climate and though I thought I had eradic...Read More
One of the best plants for attracting Butterflies!!!
I've seen Hummers at it too.
Great plant, ...Read More
While there have been complaints about this being a rampant reseeder, in my garden, the more it reseeds the better. Unlike other reseede...Read More
This is actually surviving the winter here this year; I found a plant when I was cleaning out my beds the other day! I have heard that w...Read More
Brazilian Verbena creates a lacey scrim giving the brightly colored plants behind them an air of mystery. After 3 years in my Zone 8 gar...Read More
Verbena bonariensis easily self seeds here in the Eastern section of the Green Mountains of Vermont (zone 4B). Its quirky, lacy charm is ...Read More
I love this plant, despite it being currently 'trendy' in the media. The first year of growing, it only grew to about three feet, with a ...Read More
Funny, I didn´t know this species until recently, when I found some growing volunteerly on a road side near here. I guess it can become ...Read More
I was told this plant was hardy to Zone 5, but they never come back after the winter (I've tried 3 times).
- Kathleen (N...Read More
I live in Northern Irealnd and I would not be without this plant - it self seeds (a lot) in a gravel bed beside my pond, but it is easy t...Read More
I love this plant too, because of the very bright flowers. It seems to glow.
Verbena bonariensis has become one of the favorite plants in my (full sun, Northern Virginia) perennial bed. This plant starts blooming ...Read More
In this area of Victoria in Australia, Purple-top Verbena has become an invasive weed, covering large areas of open ground and crowding o...Read More
In central to coastal Texas (zones 8-9), Verbena bonariensis behaves like a short-lived perennial. Like other plants adapted to s...Read More
In my zone 6b, this is a self-seeding annual. The foliage is so sparse that I prefer to grow it through a shrub in order for the flowers ...Read More
An erect, clump-forming tender perennial with stiff, widely branched stems, it can reach 3-6' in height with an open, airy spread of 1-3'...Read More