Vivid royal purple flower wands are borne prolifically atop the compact, full mound of bright green foliage. Often reblooms in late summer. Plant near the front of the border.
Vigorous in growth and bloom, ‘Twilight’ is one of those near perfect garden plants that provides great color by the bucket load while asking for little in the way of input from you. Its deep green, glossy foliage forms a tight mound in the spring that will look great in the middle of any sunny perennial garden. A multitude of long flower spikes rise from the foliage as May ends with the hundreds of flower buds on each stalk opening in early June to produce a towering display of rich, medium violet blue color that lasts well into August. It is an impressive display of bloom and will be the centerpeice of your early summer garden especially if your group and few plants together to create a drift of spiky blue magic! Like all Veronica, ‘Twilight’ thrives in full sun and in well drained soils, is drought tolerant and attracts butterflies making its show of color even more impressive.
Baby Doll’ is a very sweet new Speedwell developed in the Netherlands. Smaller than most with a longer bloom time, this mounded, compact variety is easy to grow and displays deep pink spikes from late spring until late summer. Baby Doll’ is deer and rabbit resistant, and provides mounds of pink flowers all summer. Perfect for container plantings or for low borders. Butterflies and Hummingbirds will love it!
Plants cover themselves with medium to deep blue-violet flowers from late April into mid-May. The rest of the growing season, they settle into attractive groundcovers that seem to handle cold, heat, humidity, rain, and drought equally well
This sweet and petite selection offers a soft color palette. Pure baby pink flower spikes stand atop a very short, compact mound of healthy green foliage. The ideal size perennial for containers and edging.
This dense, compact plant takes up very little garden space but makes up for it with enough flower power to make it seem three times its size. Deep green foliage densely fills out short, upright stems forming a rounded, spreading clump in the garden that tops itself with flower spikes in June. These flower spikes extend 3 to 4″ above the foliage and reveal profuse numbers of small, deep blue flowers that continue to bloom into August. ‘Royal Candles’ is a cinch to grow requiring full sun and well-drained soil and a little deadheading of past blooms to prolong the flowering period. It’s a great plant to group in numbers toward the front of a planting to put on a huge, deep blue summer show.
The most intense purple color of any Veronica, you’ll find this flower color is just the most outstanding characteristic of a plant loaded with outstanding attributes. The deepest of deep green, lustrous foliage forms a tight basal mound with each stem topped by a flower bud that begins to expand upward in late May. When fully extended, these spikes may be up to 6″ long and, as they begin to color and bloom in June, you’ll be transfixed by the riveting show and landscape impact these tiny flowers on spikes will bring to your home. Blooming into July, ‘Purpleicious’ will bring life to a sunny or partially shaded summer garden with so little care needed from you that you’ll wish everything in the garden was so easy!
This new compact Veronica is covered in dark blue spikes of blooms all season long. It will flower from late spring right through to a frost!
‘Mona Lisa Smile’ has long rosy purple spikes that attract butterflies and hummingbirds to the garden. A dense, rounded habit and thick green foliage looks great in the garden even without the beautiful blooms. Easy to grow and works well in any sunny garden or container. Deer resistant!
Spikes of fully double, royal purple flowers bloom throughout summer on a denser, shorter plant. Winner of the 2004 All American Selection award. Magnificent for cutting, as a hedge, single specimen or massed. Butterflies love it!