Verbena ‘Purple Passion’

Common Name:
Purple Passion Verbena

Description:
Verbena ‘Purple Passion’ is a compact and free-flowering perennial prized for its vibrant purple blooms and long-lasting colour. This variety produces masses of rounded flower clusters above a neat mound of dark green foliage, flowering continuously from late spring through to autumn in Melbourne gardens. The rich purple flowers are highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, making it an excellent choice for wildlife-friendly planting schemes. It thrives in full sun with well-drained soil and is drought tolerant once established, requiring minimal care beyond the occasional trim to encourage fresh growth and continued flowering. Ideal for edging, borders, containers, or mass planting, ‘Purple Passion’ adds brilliant colour to cottage gardens, mixed beds, and sunny courtyards. Its low-growing, spreading habit also makes it useful as a colourful groundcover.

Form:
*Ground Cover
*Shrub – Clumping / Mounding

Mature Size:
*Height: 20–30 cm
*Width: 40–60 cm

Aspect:
*Full Sun

Flowering:
*Flowers in Spring
*Flowers in Summer
*Flowers in Autumn

Flower Colour:
*Purple

Key Attributes:
*Suitable for Pots
*Bee Attracting
*Butterfly Attracting
*Perennial
*Herbaceous
*Long Flowering Period
*Low Maintenance
*Drought Tolerant
*Groundcover / Edging Plant

Toxicity:
Not known to be toxic to humans or pets.

Companion Plants:
*Salvia nemorosa
*Gaura lindheimeri
*Coreopsis ‘Moonbeam’
*Nepeta faassenii
*Echinacea purpurea

Plant Growers Australia (PGA) is an innovative wholesale production nursery based in Melbourne, renowned for superior quality garden plants and pioneering breeding programs.
PGA do not sell direct to the public, but their website has detailed information on this species that is available for everyone to access. 
Visit www.pga.com.au for further details and photos of this plant.