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 showstopper in any garden. Its long-lasting flowers put on a show from late spring through to the first frosts, attracting lots of birds and pollinators over the course of a season. It is ...

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 ...

V. bonariensis Lollipop is a dwarf version of V. bonariensis. A popular plant, it's a perennial with erect, branching stems, and branched clusters of small, purple flowers sometimes from late spring ...

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 ...