Re: Companion plant suggestions--verbena bonariensis

In a message dated 1/11/02 1:08:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, LONDE@aol.com writes:


Verbena bonariensis is nice interplanted with daylilies.

I think Verbena bonariensis is a wonderful plant with anything that is tall enough to hold it's own with them.  And you only have to plant it once--it's a fairly rampant self-seeder, so you'll have to be ruthless tearing out excess plants.  It's usually an annual here in z6a outside Cincinnati, although the winter was so mild last year that many of the plants lived over.  

I like it in arragements. I also saw a large planting of Rudbeckia 'Indian Summer' (or is this a helianthus or one of the other genuses?) interplanted with V.B. and it was absolutely stunning--this was a bed in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery (an arboretum as well as a cemetery and well worth at least a half day's visit).

V.B. is great as a filler in arrangements too.  
Bill Lee
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