Verbena hybrida Virgo up Purple

This Verbena Virgo Up Purple is an excellent variety of garden verbena, both floriferous, resistant, colourful, and with a cushion-like habit that maintains a neat appearance throughout the season. This small plant is adorned from summer to autumn with numerous spherical umbels of deep violet colour, highlighted by its delicate, slightly hairy and medium green foliage. Grown as an annual, this less hardy verbena is ideal for filling pots and hanging baskets, or creating vibrant borders in summer flower beds.

Verbena Virgo Up Purple belongs to the Verbenaceae family, it is a horticultural hybrid whose ancestors inhabited the warm regions of South America. This plant forms a rounded and compact clump, not trailing, measuring about 25-30 cm (10-12in) in all directions. It tirelessly produces short, erect stems from June until the first frost, which bear beautiful dense and round clusters composed of tiny violet flowers reminiscent of phlox. This perennial plant succumbs to frost, it 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 occasional neglect. They overflow from hanging baskets, slip between other upright plants in flower pots or planters, concealing their base without being affected by their presence. They are also very beautiful in rockeries, allowing you to quickly fill in the spaces left by damage caused by a harsh winter. Create a beautiful hanging display by combining Virgo Up Purple verbena with white geraniums, purple-leaved morning glory, and lobelias with intense blue flowers.

Note: Please be aware that our plug plants are professional products intended 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 being planted outdoors once the risk of frost has definitively passed.