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March 31, 2009
Create Curb Appeal with a Dramatic New Verbena
If neighbors drive or walk right on by without giving your front-yard flower beds a second glance, you need help—the help that only bright colors can provide. To add that much-needed zing to your garden, plant casual drifts of Aztec Red Velvet verbena along your walkway.
Even when you start it from tiny plugs, this beautiful annual will reward you with pretty, feathery, green foliage and continuous bright red blossoms, even during the hottest, driest weeks of the summer. You can ignore it, abuse it, and still claim bragging rights to the brightest sidewalk in the neighborhood.
What makes this heat-loving annual so eye-catching? In flower beds and borders, its trailing habit turns it into a viny, tropical-looking ground cover that looks great with both softer colors and other bright hues like orange and yellow. Its striking crimson flowers bring dramatic flair to neutral-colored stone walkways or walls. And in hanging baskets, it's a loud exclamation point that dares people to look away.
If you're looking for some extra spice in your garden, try easy-care Aztec Red Velvet verbena—you'll have your neighbors seeing red.
Even when you start it from tiny plugs, this beautiful annual will reward you with pretty, feathery, green foliage and continuous bright red blossoms, even during the hottest, driest weeks of the summer. You can ignore it, abuse it, and still claim bragging rights to the brightest sidewalk in the neighborhood.
What makes this heat-loving annual so eye-catching? In flower beds and borders, its trailing habit turns it into a viny, tropical-looking ground cover that looks great with both softer colors and other bright hues like orange and yellow. Its striking crimson flowers bring dramatic flair to neutral-colored stone walkways or walls. And in hanging baskets, it's a loud exclamation point that dares people to look away.
If you're looking for some extra spice in your garden, try easy-care Aztec Red Velvet verbena—you'll have your neighbors seeing red.
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