How to Keep Verbena Looking Great All Summer 

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Hi Scott. My introduction to verbena came last year when I dropped and cracked my 10 " hanging basket 😒 I grabbed some old pots and quickly repotted the plants to save their lives, til I replaced the bigger pot. (two petunias, one verbena). What a surprise I got with the verbena! I'd never really considered the individual plants in combo pots before that day. This one was purple and just floored me with it's beauty. I ended up getting a white one to add to it and pow! what a showy mix that was. Part of my early morning routine was coffee and deadheading 😀So worth it!

Thank you! I’ve never been successful with verbena..it’s always the first thing to NOT have any flowers left…just long green stems with no flowers. I guess I will be more attentive with the dead heading. Very good video.

Over the past few years I've learned verbenna do amazing in pots ,but not as good in flower beds here in zone 9b.

I've been gardening for years. This is the first time I tried Verbena. We've had an overabundance of rain here lately and even though I have the Verbena in a raised bed, it simply looks sad. The soil drains well and everything I plant in that bed blooms like crazy. I read where , like Caladiums, you should never water overhead, but from the ground, to avoid saturating the blooms. That's fine, but obviously I can't reroute rain water...lol. They're not dead, but it seems once the blooms get rainwater on them, they fizzle out. Maybe I'm just spoiled with Supertunia's , I don't know. I'm going to deadhead the rain saturated blooms and see what I can do to retrieve it, however, more rain is on the way later this week.

Thank you so much!!

I found my people!

I relandscaped using Verbena Tapien plants. They were beautiful last year growing to 3 feet in diameter and had blooms all summer and a wonderful spring bloom this year. Then they all seemed to be dying from the center out. I now realize the flowers only grow on new growth so all the flowers are on the periphery of the plants. I have tried cutting back to the main root stalk but I think I was too late. How far back should I have cut these in the fall so that the new growth would come back this year?

My Scavola is real leggy. Can I cut it back?

Trying verbena and bidens for the first time. They have similar habit. Do I deadhead bidens the same way?

I deadheaded mine and no new ones grew back 😭

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