How do I take care of verbena flowers?

Answer 1

Deadheading is picking off the faded blooms. If you don’t deadhead your verbena, it will quit blooming. This doesn’t have to be a tedious task. Just clip off the top 1/4 of the stems that hold the faded flowers once the blooms are spent. If you forget, clipping out the tops of the stems will encourage your plant to rebloom in 15-20 days.

2. Fertilizing
This is easy! Verbena needs to be fertilized only once a year – in spring when the plants are about 4” tall. Use a complete fertilizer, and don’t fertilize verbena plants when you first set them out in the garden. Wait until they are established and growing.

3. Watering
When you first plant verbena, you should water regularly until the plants are happy and well established. Thereafter, water them only when very dry.

Starting from seeds
Verbena is easy to start from seeds, but the seeds might take as long as a month to germinate, so don’t give up on them too soon. Start the seeds indoors in late winter or early spring in individual peat or fiber pots. Place two seeds in each pot, and barely cover them with potting soil. Once they have 3-4 leaves per plant, clip out the weakest plant from each pot.

Harden off your plants by moving them outdoors

Answer 2

Description
Verbena is mostly grown as a summer bedding plant, but there are many fine perennial varieties for the flower border. Unfortunately, they are not completely hardy, and it is advised to take cuttings to over winter in a frost-free environment. All produce masses of small flowers in small clumps, and come in a wide variety of rich colours.

Some varieties are prostrate, spreading up to a metre along the ground during the summer, but at the other extreme, there is V. bonariensis which can reach more than 1.5 metres high. This variety has become fashionable of late, and produces its blue flowers at the tops of thin wiry stems. Often recommended for planting near the front of the border due to its 'see through' nature of the foliage, but it is best planted in bolder groups in a position more fitting to its height nearer the back of the border.



Care
Summer care is simply a matter of removing the dead flower heads on a regular basis. This is a well behaved plant and rarely gets out of control. In late summer, take cuttings if you have the space to over winter them, in case severe weather kills the main plants during the winter.

Once flowering is over, cut tall types down to the basal leaves. Spreading types can be reduced in diameter to keep the plant within its designated display area.

Answer 3

I had some gorgeous homestead purple verbena. (Good thing a friend had a piece, b/c I got a cutting from her that I am rooting now since mine died.) I never used to dead head it and it did fine, but different varieties may be different. And it used to go dormant during the winter. Would disappear entirely, then pop back up every year.

Answer 4

Water and sunshine. Pinch the dead blumes. Very hearty and beautiful flowers. Look great in hanging baskets. They vine well.

Answer 5

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

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