My favourite foil

You can never have too much verbena bonariensis.

These are lovely I like them too Wagger but only learnt this year that they need the crowns protected in winter.

Really???? I have never protected them at all! They self seed all over the garden and come up between the paving slabs and where the concrete is cracked. I just love the spontaneity of them and the way they complement other flowers. I do live near the south coast. Maybe the climate is mild enough for them to survive without protection.

Mine dont do so well and then i found this out so will put compost on the crown this winter.

I don't think they are very long-lived plants, but mine seed themselves all over the place, too!

They are a short-lived perennial as you say Spritz...I find seedlings everwhere, even in areas where there aren't any VB planted, i love them and they transplant very readily Penny....good luck...:>)

I love the way there heads sway above other plants but dont take over the borders.. Verbena's Rock lol..

It's difficult to overwinter them here too - I pot up a few spares each year for the cold greenhouse or I'd only ever have first year seedlings - tall and spindly.

You do surprise me, Wagger! Maybe we need to carry out a survey on how they do in different locations - It would be interesting., wouldn't it!

I can just see me standing in the middle of town with a clipboard accosting the shoppers, lol.

Weeellllll - what I really meant was in different places in the UK - so you've got a lot of travelling to do with your clipboard, Wagger! I hope you've got a rail card. LOL.

I'll have to swap in my bus pass for one of those, Spritz!

That would do, but it might take a bit longer. Bye! See you next October! LOL.

Bye-bye.

(Waving) LOL.

. (That's a little dot in the distance)

LOL.....No - come back! What's GOY all about? We could ask a question!!!!!!!! I am a genius!

Only just heard you - I was so far away. That's a good idea, will you do that then? You're more used to posing questions from your previous career (that's called 'passing the buck').

Oy! I've just posted one! OK, OK. Later!

Been, seen.