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Veronica spicata Snow Candles

Veronica spicata Snow Candles 'Joca 128'
Spiked Speedwell

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This flowering Speedwell has charming and elegant white flowers for a long period in summer. It produces long flower clusters in upright, sculptural spikes. It is compact, with dark green foliage and forms a creeping clump that spreads through a strong crown. It thrives in sunny borders, slopes, and rockeries, in well-drained, dry or occasionally flooded soil.
Flower size
1 cm
Height at maturity
60 cm
Spread at maturity
40 cm
Exposure
Sun, Partial shade
Hardiness
Hardy down to -29°C
Soil moisture
Dry soil, Moist soil
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Best planting time March, October
Recommended planting time February to April, August to October
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Description

Veronica spicata Snow Candles, also known as Spike Speedwell, is a vigorous perennial with a long charming and elegant summer flowering. It produces long architectural, upright spikes covered with small white star-shaped flowers. It forms a compact, creeping clump of dark green foliage. It thrives in sunny flower beds, slopes, and rockeries, in well-drained, dry or occasionally flooded limestone soil.

Spike Speedwell is a perennial plant of the Plantaginaceae family, formerly classified in the Scrophulariaceae family, mainly growing in mountains, up to 2000 m (6562ft) altitude and less commonly in plains. It can be found growing in meadows, on rocky slopes and at the edge of forests, mostly on limestone soil. Snow Candles 'Joca 128' has dense and vigorous vegetation, 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18in) high for the foliage, 60 cm (24in) for the flowers, spreading over 30-40 m (98-131ft) in diameter from its powerful semi-woody crown. Its hairy stems are branched at the upper part and bear deciduous to semi-evergreen, ovate to linear, beautiful dark green leaves, with finely toothed edges. From July to August and sometimes until September, it produces tiny star-shaped flowers, tightly packed on dense upright spikes at the end of the floral stems and attractive to bees and butterflies. The plant self-seeds in light soil.

Veronica spicata Snow Candles can be planted in any well-drained soil, even rocky and limestone, preferably in full sun. It is particularly suitable for a mountain garden with rocky soil. Although it prefers some moisture at its base, it tolerates drought quite well once established. This perennial is useful for planting at the base of shrub roses, in raised flower beds, on a slope or in a rockery, with Echinaceas, Stipas, Red Shrubby Salvias, California Poppies or Lavenders. Its relatively flexible, white spikes provide height and colour to a low flower bed composed of creeping plants like Aubrietas, Wall Bellflowers, or Snow-in-Summer. Spike Speedwell can also be planted en masse. Its flowers are also very beautiful when cut.

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Veronica spicata Snow Candles (Plant habit) Plant habit

Flowering

Flower colour white
Flowering time June to August
Inflorescence Spike
Flower size 1 cm
Bee-friendly Attracts pollinators

Foliage

Foliage persistence Semi-evergreen
Foliage colour dark green

Plant habit

Height at maturity 60 cm
Spread at maturity 40 cm
Growth rate normal

Botanical data

Genus

Veronica

Species

spicata

Cultivar

Snow Candles 'Joca 128'

Family

Plantaginaceae

Other common names

Spiked Speedwell

Origin

Cultivar or hybrid

Product reference182631

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Planting and care

Veronica Snow Candles is a sun-loving plant that thrives in poor soils. Its preferred habitat is limestone, dry and rocky or gravelly, well-drained soil. It is more sensitive to stagnant moisture in winter than to cold temperatures. You can cut back any unattractive, brown faded stems to promote more flowers. You can allow some plants to self-seed, but the resulting plants may not be identical to the parent. In either case, the clumps should be cut back in spring before the start of new growth.

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Planting period

Best planting time March, October
Recommended planting time February to April, August to October

Intended location

Suitable for Meadow, Rockery
Type of use Border, Edge of border
Hardiness Hardy down to -29°C (USDA zone 5) Show map
Ease of cultivation Amateur
Planting density 5 per m2
Exposure Sun, Partial shade
Soil pH Neutral, Calcareous
Soil type Chalky (poor, alkaline and well-drained), Silty-loamy (rich and light), Stony (poor and well-drained)
Soil moisture Dry soil, Moist soil, well-drained, limestone

Care

Pruning instructions Remove the faded stems to encourage more flowers. Cut back the clumps in spring before the start of new growth.
Pruning Pruning recommended once a year
Pruning time March to April, July to August
Disease resistance Very good
Overwinter Can be left in the ground

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