Veronica spicata ‘Royal Candles’
Size: #1
12 inches high x 12 inches wide
Zone 3
Full Sun
$18$16.20
Available for the Early Order Sale!
Royal Candles Veronica is a bushy, upright, clump-forming perennial, producing dense, slender spikes of star-shaped deep blue-purple flowers, from early to late summer. Attractive to butterflies, the flowers open from the base upward and sway above bushy foliage mounds, of lance-shaped, deep green leaves. Its compact habit makes it ideal for the front of borders or in containers where it will make a dramatic impact.
Has been wintered outside and will be ready for planting in early spring.
Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these.
These plants are adapted to intermittent deep
watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care.
These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that
they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant
death.
About sizes of our plants:
Sizes indicated with a # are roughly the equivalent in gallonage; so a #2 is about a 2 gallon pot size.
