Verbena hybrida Virgo Candy Cane

This Verbena 'Virgo Candy Cane' is part of a new generation of hybrid verbenas selected for their naturally compact, bushy, and trailing habit, as well as the vivacity of their colours. It offers umbels of brilliantly tricoloured flowers, composed of a crown of pink flowers with a white centre surrounding a centre of carmine red flowers. Vigorous and heat-resistant, low water requirements, beautifully flowering from summer to autumn, this lovely annual plant is one of the best for decorating patios and balconies. It is also adorable in sunny flower beds and rockeries.

Verbena Virgo Candy Cane belongs to the Verbenaceae family, it is a recent horticultural hybrid, whose ancestors inhabited the warm regions of South America. This plant forms in a few months a compact, bushy, slightly trailing, rather stocky, 25 to 30 cm (10 to 12in) tall tuft, spreading about 35 to 45 cm (14 to 18in). It tirelessly produces erect stems, which produce beautiful dense and round clusters composed of tiny flowers resembling those of phlox, from early summer to the first frosts. The faded flowers are self-eliminating, reducing plant maintenance to a minimum. The foliage of this variety is dark green, with leaflets wider than those of classic varieties. This perennial plant succumbs to frost, it is grown as an annual in our climate, which allows for its rapid growth.

Garden verbenas are plants that are really easy to grow, suffering more from excess water and food than from occasional neglect. They overflow from hanging baskets, slip between other upright plants in flower pots or planters, hiding their base without suffering from their presence. They are also very beautiful in rockeries, allowing for quickly filling the spaces left vacant by damage caused by a too harsh winter. Create a beautiful bicolored hanging basket by combining the Vepita Pearl Blue verbena with a blood red pelargonium, a purple-leaved ipomoea, and a heat-resistant lobelia Hot White. To create a more romantic composition, for example, associate this Carmine Kiss variety with 'Virgo White' verbenas, with a virginal white flowering, and 'Pearl Blue', covered with dark blue umbels dotted with white.

Note: Attention, our plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant and store them under shelter (veranda, greenhouse, cold frame...) at a temperature above 14C° for a few weeks before being planted outside once the risk of frost is definitively eliminated.