Verbena canadensis ‘Homestead Purple’ 26/3 Restock In every other way the

In every other way the selection keeps the virtues of the species: a rounded

The leaves have a strong pungent odor when bruised

This is a cold-hardy citrus hybrid bred to carry oranges into gardens too cold for ordinary citrus

ranges through the south-central states and shares the family's best trait: restraint

hardy through USDA zones 7 to 10

Verbena canadensis ‘Homestead Purple’ 26/3 Restock In every other way the'Homestead Purple' is one of the great garden discoveries of the modern South, a trailing perennial verbena found not in a breeding plot but by the side of a Georgia road. In the early 1990s the University of Georgia horticulturists Michael Dirr and Allan Armitage drove past a sheet of royal purple bloom at an old homestead, turned around, and gathered cuttings from a plant the owner said had simply grown there for years. That roadside find became one