+39 080 8769072   info@apuliaplants.it

Apulia Plants-La nuova realtà della floricoltura pugliese di altissima qualità.

Verbena

It is a small perennial plant, cultivated as an annual plant. The Verbena belongs to the family Verbenaceae and it originates from Central and South America and from Europe. It has hanging shape and long branches. The light green leaves are small, oval, sharp, dentate and with marked veins. It produces small and strongly perfumed flowers, variously colored, from white to pink, red, purple and speckled bicolor. The flowers are collected in spikes at the end of the branches. According to the tradition it is a holy plant and it has curative, analgesic and healing properties.

Category: Tag:
Download the sheet
Share:
Botanical name

Botanical name

Verbena Hybrida
Common name

Common name

Verbena

Variety

Variety

Flower's color

Flower's color

Different shades: white, pink, red, purple; some mottled two-tone varieties

Temperature

Temperature

Min.5°C

Exposure

Exposure

Sunny

Watering need

Watering need

Averages

Blooming

Blooming

Flowers from spring, until the end of summer

Availability

Availability

March – May

Disponibilità

February, March, April
Esposizione

Full sun, Half shade
Necessità Idrica

Average
Fioritura

Spring, Summer

Related products

c5507734-ece3-4130-8142-227cc97b91ce
PERENNIAL OUTDOOR PLANTS

Rapiolephis

It is a very beautiful and evergreen shrub originating from China: it is a slow-growing plant, with glossy and coriaceous foliage preferably to be cultivated in open ground; throughout the spring numerous small pink or white star flowers bloom at the apex of the branches. It has to be placed in a well-lit place, in the sun or in partial shade; it prefers rich and fertile soils. It suffers from excessive humidity. It tolerates both drought and frost quite well, and it can resist in the garden even if temperatures fall below -10/-15° C.

Portulaca – Apulia Plants
PERENNIAL OUTDOOR PLANTS

Portulaca

It is known in different regions with different names: in Italian it is called porcellana, procaccia, purselana (Liguria), erba grassa (Lombardia), barzellana (Sardegna). In ancient Egypt it was already known as medical plant. It probably originates from Asia. It has reddish, fleshy, very branched stems and a prostrate shape which makes it an excellent groundcover plant: from June until the first autumn cold numerous rose-shaped flowers bloom on the apex of the branches, with wrinkled looking petals that close in the dark. It needs sun and regular watering.

Duranta-flowers-and-leaves
PERENNIAL OUTDOOR PLANTS

Duranta

Duranta repens is a small, crawling or partially erect shrub which is native to Central America. The thin semi-woody stems are densely branched, the leaves are oval and small; it can be evergreen as long as it grows in temperate areas with mild winters. It prefers sunny places: poor light conditions can lead to an equally scarce blooming. However, it does not fear the cold and it can even withstand short periods of frost.

Penstemon – Apulia Plants
PERENNIAL OUTDOOR PLANTS

Penstemon

Exuberant and unusual, the Penstemons bloom throughout the summer, bringing joy and color even when the other plants, for the oppressive heat, take a break. It originates from North America and it belongs to a particularly small variety that grows in the mountains on stony ground, very close to the ground. The plant forms several spikes, which are covered with many small flowers similar to the bells: blue, purple and red. It needs full sun and it is resistant to cold.

GELSEMIUM
c2d099d8-4725-427d-b5d0-d9619c4b4af6
PERENNIAL OUTDOOR PLANTS

Gelsemium

The national flower of South Carolina, gelsemium is a pant in the family Loganiaceae and in fact it is native to central and northern America. This climbing, evergreen plant is very rustic and resistant. It has thin, elongated, light-green leaves and it produces little funnel-shaped, fragrant, yellow flowers. Since its appearance and its scent vaguely resemble those of jasmines, gelsemum is also commonly known as “yellow jasmine”.

e4b0d7d7-0e57-4e93-a5ce-2411e213b90d
PERENNIAL OUTDOOR PLANTS

Saxifraga

It belongs to the family Saxifragaceae and it originates from the arctic temperate regions. The Saxifraga Arendsii is a groundcover and evergreen herbaceous plant characterized by small elongated leaves of an intense green color. It has thin stems that carry very resistant flowers in the shape of a red flattened star (there is also a white flower variety and with lighter leaflets, “Saxifraga Paniculata”). It is an ideal plant to be cultivated in rocky gardens since it has roots capable of taking root even among stones.