Verbena canadensis ‘Homestead Purple’ 26/3 Restock continuing a long tradition of

continuing a long tradition of introducing uncommon and botanically significant plants into cultivation

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

The leaves have a strong pungent odor when bruised

hardy through USDA zones 7 to 10

Verbena canadensis ‘Homestead Purple’ 26/3 Restock continuing a long tradition of'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