Tuscany® Orchid Frost Verbena Seeds

Brilliant Colors for Hummers and Humans!
A fast-growing annual for the north, a first-year-blooming perennial for south and west!
Genus: Verbena
Species: hybrida
Variety: Tuscany® Lavender Picotee
Item Form: (P) Pkt of 25 seeds
Zone: 7 – 10
Bloom Start to End: Late Spring – Late Fall
Habit: Compact
Seeds Per Pack: 25
Plant Height: 8 in – 10 in
Plant Width: 16 in – 22 in
Additional Characteristics: Easy Care Plants, Flower, Free Bloomer, Hummingbird Lovers, Long Bloomers, Season Extenders, Award Winner, Bloom First Year
Bloom Color: Light Lavender, Multi-Color, Purple
Foliage Color: Medium Green
Light Requirements: Full Sun, Part Shade
Moisture Requirements: Dry, Moist,  well-drained
Resistance: Drought Tolerant, Heat Tolerant, Humidity Tolerant
Soil Tolerance: Normal,  loamy
Uses: Baskets, Beds, Containers, Cut Flowers, Ground Cover, Outdoor

Joining its award-winning sister Lavender Picotee, Orchid Frost is a magnificent Verbena, just the ticket to bring hummingbirds into the sunny garden over its long, lovely season of bloom. These two-tone pink and purple blooms are large and nicely rounded, standing out brilliantly on compact plants. What a treasure for garden beds and patio pots!

The Tuscany® series is renowned for its free-flowering habit. The blooms open from late spring through summer and even into fall, going right up to hard frost in some areas! Such flower power is very hard to find, especially on such a compact plant.

The flowers are held above large, toothy green foliage, opening from buds that may remind you of Pelargoniums. The petals are a bright bubblegum shade of pink with generous darker lilac to purple markings near the base. Stylish and different from most everything else in the garden!

Expect Orchid Frost to get 8 to 10 inches high and to spread nearly 2 feet wide if space permits (it will fill container space and then stop!). Ideal for mass planting on slopes, banks, and other areas needing protection from erosion, it is also billowy and lush in planters, baskets, window boxes, and baskets. And it’s a mainstay of the sunny to partly shaded bed or border, where it serves as a fine foreground planting to larger flowering plants and shrubs. It makes a good spring bulb cover-up too, leafing out and beginning to bud just as the last of the flowering bulbs are passing!

Orchid Frost doesn’t mind drought, heat, or humidity. Hummingbirds sip from its blooms all summer long. Such a great source of nectar that just keeps coming, month after month!

This Verbena is perennial in zones 7-10 and grown as an annual (it is very fast) farther north. Such long-season coverage is hard to find, and Orchid Frost will delight you with its garden performance as well as its beauty. Highly recommended! Packet is 25 seeds.