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.
For use in borders, bedding, edging, for cut flowers, and in conservatories. The following have square stems, lobed or toothed green leaves, and small tubular flowers in spikes or rounded clusters. V. bipinnatifida, Dakota Verbena, is a prostrate grower to 15 inches tall with light purple to lavender blue flowers. Zone 4; native to the mid-western United States. V. x hybrida, Garden Verbena, grows 6-18 inches tall with blue, red, white, purple, lilac, pink, or yellow, fragrant flowers. It is a hybrid annual of no direct nativity. V. rigida is a spreader growing 12-24 inches tall with fragrant, deep blue to purple flowers. Zones 7-10; native to South America
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
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.
For use in borders, bedding, edging, for cut flowers, and in conservatories. The following have square stems, lobed or toothed green leaves, and small tubular flowers in spikes or rounded clusters. V. bipinnatifida, Dakota Verbena, is a prostrate grower to 15 inches tall with light purple to lavender blue flowers. Zone 4; native to the mid-western United States. V. x hybrida, Garden Verbena, grows 6-18 inches tall with blue, red, white, purple, lilac, pink, or yellow, fragrant flowers. It is a hybrid annual of no direct nativity. V. rigida is a spreader growing 12-24 inches tall with fragrant, deep blue to purple flowers. Zones 7-10; native to South America
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.