Veronica spicata Snow Candles
Veronica spicata Snow Candles
Veronica spicata Snow Candles
Veronica spicata Snow Candles
Veronica spicata Snow Candles 'Joca 128'
Spiked Speedwell
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Description
Veronica spicata Snow Candles, also known as Spike Speedwell, is a vigorous perennial with a long charming and elegant summer flowering. It produces long architectural, upright spikes covered with small white star-shaped flowers. It forms a compact, creeping clump of dark green foliage. It thrives in sunny flower beds, slopes, and rockeries, in well-drained, dry or occasionally flooded limestone soil.
Spike Speedwell is a perennial plant of the Plantaginaceae family, formerly classified in the Scrophulariaceae family, mainly growing in mountains, up to 2000 m (6562ft) altitude and less commonly in plains. It can be found growing in meadows, on rocky slopes and at the edge of forests, mostly on limestone soil. Snow Candles 'Joca 128' has dense and vigorous vegetation, 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18in) high for the foliage, 60 cm (24in) for the flowers, spreading over 30-40 m (98-131ft) in diameter from its powerful semi-woody crown. Its hairy stems are branched at the upper part and bear deciduous to semi-evergreen, ovate to linear, beautiful dark green leaves, with finely toothed edges. From July to August and sometimes until September, it produces tiny star-shaped flowers, tightly packed on dense upright spikes at the end of the floral stems and attractive to bees and butterflies. The plant self-seeds in light soil.
Veronica spicata Snow Candles can be planted in any well-drained soil, even rocky and limestone, preferably in full sun. It is particularly suitable for a mountain garden with rocky soil. Although it prefers some moisture at its base, it tolerates drought quite well once established. This perennial is useful for planting at the base of shrub roses, in raised flower beds, on a slope or in a rockery, with Echinaceas, Stipas, Red Shrubby Salvias, California Poppies or Lavenders. Its relatively flexible, white spikes provide height and colour to a low flower bed composed of creeping plants like Aubrietas, Wall Bellflowers, or Snow-in-Summer. Spike Speedwell can also be planted en masse. Its flowers are also very beautiful when cut.
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Botanical data
Veronica
spicata
Snow Candles 'Joca 128'
Plantaginaceae
Spiked Speedwell
Cultivar or hybrid
Planting and care
Veronica Snow Candles is a sun-loving plant that thrives in poor soils. Its preferred habitat is limestone, dry and rocky or gravelly, well-drained soil. It is more sensitive to stagnant moisture in winter than to cold temperatures. You can cut back any unattractive, brown faded stems to promote more flowers. You can allow some plants to self-seed, but the resulting plants may not be identical to the parent. In either case, the clumps should be cut back in spring before the start of new growth.
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
The flowering period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, etc.)
It will vary according to where you live:- In zones 9 to 10 (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), flowering will occur about 2 to 4 weeks earlier.
- In zones 6 to 7 (Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and lower mountainous regions), flowering will be delayed by 2 to 3 weeks.
- In zone 5 (Central Europe, Scandinavia), blooming will be delayed by 3 to 5 weeks.
In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands).
It will vary according to where you live:
- In Mediterranean zones (Marseille, Madrid, Milan, etc.), autumn and winter are the best planting periods.
- In continental zones (Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, etc.), delay planting by 2 to 3 weeks in spring and bring it forward by 2 to 4 weeks in autumn.
- In mountainous regions (the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, etc.), it is best to plant in late spring (May-June) or late summer (August-September).
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.
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