‘Vanity’ Verbena Seeds

Days to Maturity: 85 direct sow; 30 to 40 transplant

All-America Selections Winner (AAS) 2022

Fleuroselect Gold Medal

Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit (Verbena bonariensis)

A compact verbena, typically grown as an annual, ‘Vanity’ is a tender perennial (winter hardy in Zone 7 and higher) offering summer through fall interest, typically blooming until first frost. Its tight, rounded clusters of dainty purple-blue flowers sit atop slender but strong green stems, which splay in a charming, well-behaved manner, giving the plant an airy, see-through structure and a fantastical, fairylike quality. The subtly fragrant flowers make enchanting and long-lasting additions to cut arrangements. Bees and butterflies flock to the flowers in the garden, and yellow finches visit for the seeds.

A Verbena bonariensis, commonly called purpletop vervain or Brazilian verbena, ‘Vanity’ offers a tr