Propagation: Sprouts and Seedlings 2008! Any pics to share?!, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
Oh, dear-- I wonder why yours never bloomed, tcs...? kqcrna, sounds like you are on the VB warpath!

Verbena bonarienses does reseed a lot, but our garden is of a more 'crammed in' style than yours, I think, so it's a nice filler. And I just give the ones we don't want the yank. I prune off some of them at about a foot for a bushier plant, too. Although I think the butterflies (monarchs and swallowtails) like the tall plants better. And so do the hummingbirds in our garden.

These are my liatris spicata alba (WSed from bulbs) out doors but so easy (and cheap, compared to buying plants at the garden center!) My other liatris varieties (squarrosa, pycno..., and another one which I can't remember) were wintersowed with seeds rather than bulbs but I have only a few sprouts if any in each container. It may take them years to come into bloom, too. The butterflies love them, though.