Why simply cover ground when you can roll out the red carpet with Tukana Scarlet? This exciting Verbena is tops for disease resistance, quick coverage, and best of all, color intensity! Dense and very vigorous, it sports a thick mat of 2 1/2- to 3-inch bloom clusters from late spring until frost, transforming any sunny spot into a showplace. Beginning the first year,Tukana Scarlet flowers very freely, obscuring the foliage on the 6- to 10-inch plants with wave after wave of brilliant crimson-red. A single plant will cover 3 to 4 square feet per season, so you can imagine what a large planting looks like in midsummer! And to think it's as easy as a weed to grow!
Verbena thrives in hot, dry climates, soaking up the sun and laughing at drought, excessive heat, and neglect. This is the plant that will still be blooming when you come back from 2 weeks' vacation, even though you forgot to ask the neighbor to water it and it didn't rain once while you were gone! The only thing it really needs --besides sunshine -- is well-drained soil. Given that, it fills up containers, creeps across the bed and border, makes a dramatic underplanting for just about any perennial or shrub that's not too dense to let the light through, and races down bare slopes and other trouble spots effortlessly.
Butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees are attracted to Tukana Scarlet, and you will be too! Get a little extra -- you'll keep thinking of new places to plant it! Zones 6-9.
