Veronica, Hybrid Speedwell 'Tickled Pink'

US PP 16182

Hardy in Z3-8

This has been a great performer for me in western NC, zone 7. It is low growing and blooms throughout the growing season with no deadhead...Read Moreing needed. The initial clumps enlarge slowly and it is easy to divide. I've even hacked out little chunks of the plant edges to transplant, and they've done well. Good in wet and dry conditions. They came through a 6-week stretch with zero rain (in summer) and did just fine with no watering on my part.

I just acquired this plant so I will report back after growing it.

From Northcreek Nurseries.com New from Conard-Pyle, t...Read Morehis sport of Goodness Grows has spikes of clear pink flowers that cover low growing, dense foliage in early summer and continue to appear until frost. Flowers are long-lasting cuts and work well in diminutive arrangements.
Interesting Notes: The genus Veronica includes some of our most beautiful native flowers, the Speedwells, which differ from the other British Scrophularicece in having only two stamens, which project horizontally from the rotate, or wheel-shaped corolla, which has only four unequal spreading lobes, the lower segment being the smallest, the two posterior petals, according to the theory of botanists, being united into one large one. The numerous species found in
England have generally blue petals with dark diverging lines at the base, though in a few cases, pinkish flowers are found.
All the species of Veronica possess a slight degree of astringency, and many of them were formerly used in medicine, some 20 of them have been employed as drugs, those with the chief reputation being Yeronica Chamcedrys, V. officinalis, and V. Beccabunga, all natives of Great Britain; the American species V. leptandra, now known as Leptandra veronica and another species, native to Asia Minor, called V. peduncularis (Bieb.) or V. nigricans (Koch.), the root of which is used there under the name Batitjoe.
The name of this genus of plants is said to have been derived from the Saint; others say it is from the Greek words phero (I bring) and nike (victory), alluding to its supposed efficacy in subduing diseases.