Today we will be discussing a must plant for butterfly – and indeed all pollinator – gardens. This plant is the industrious Verbena bonariensis. Bonariensis. What a mouthful. All those vowels and ...

Verbena is a large genus of flowering plants, commonly found in cottage gardens. They're popular for their bright color palette of pinks and purples, and they're magnets for pollinators. Verbena also ...

Gardeners familiar with low-growing, groundcover-type verbenas are likely to gasp when they see a Verbena bonariensis in full bloom. This South American species, which has naturalized in several ...

GINA PARKINSON welcomes a late-summer jewel that shines bright when other plants are going into dull decline. IT HARDLY seems any time at all since I was writing about the small spring jewels adorning ...

I could see activity all around as I approached the bed, and the plant looked like it was a butterfly magnet. I am always impressed when I see multiples of one species hitting on flowers, and such was ...

Every gardener is familiar with the willowy Verbena bonariensis, a tall lilac-purple vision beloved by butterflies. But there is a more dazzling, low-growing verbena which produces a three-branched ...