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Expert: - 8/21/2002


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I bought a hanging basket this spring with lots of different flowers in it.  The hanging basket was not doing well, so I just put the different flowers into the ground.  One has done beautifully but I do not know what it is.  It is a low spreading green fern like leaf and has a brilliant purple flower that is about and inch or two off of the ground.  It spreads profusely.  What do I have? Is it an annual?  Thanks for any help.

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Sheri,
It sounds like Verbena... is the flower round and made up of several small flowers in a cluster?  Verbena is an annual in all but the warmest of climates.  If it does not get below 45 degrees in the winter where you are, it may live through the winter.
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C.L. Fornari

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Annuals suggested for specific situations (sun, shade, windowboxes etc) New or unusual annuals are a particular interest of mine, and I grow many of these from seed. I am happy to help problem solve, answer questions about maintenance, and guide you to sources of unusual plants.

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I am a garden writer/speaker/consultant and host of a weekly gardening radio program in the Northeast. I have been gardening all my life for my own pleasure, and started as a professional gardener and garden communicator 15 years ago. I work part-time at a garden center, selling and tending shrubs/trees/annuals/perennials...and doing some propagation and design work. I often think that all these professional activities serve to put a somewhat legitimate framework around a serious case of plant-lust.

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