Verbena canadensis ‘Homestead Purple’ 26/3 Restock blue-green shrub and saves the

blue-green shrub and saves the show for the dead of winter

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

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threadleaf coreopsis has become one of the most popular of all garden perennials

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Verbena canadensis ‘Homestead Purple’ 26/3 Restock blue-green shrub and saves 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