First Lady Veronica

Tall crystalline blooms, the First Lady Veronica (Veronica longifolia 'Alllady') is a gorgeous bridal white fuzzy spire of tiny flowers that create tapering bottlebrushes all summer long! Providing brilliant vertical texture and creamy hues to your landscape! Light up the garden and add motion and texture to containers and garden beds and borders in the sun. The nectar-rich blooms call pollinators and hummingbirds in droves!

Flowering from the bottom up First Lady Veronica are regal-looking blooms! You'll truly appreciate the dark green foliage clumps before and after these blooms arrive on the scene. Then when the dreamy white ""candles"" arrive, they wave in fluffy spires above glossy green leaves with lovely toothy edges. The flower spikes appear all summer and provide you with lovely cut flowers for your bouquets.

Also known as Speedwell, this long-lasting perennial is super easy to grow and will come back year after year! Cold-hardy and heat-tolerant in USDA growing zones 4-9, and growing to a 2-foot-tall upright herbaceous perennial that spreads to a tidy mound also 24 inches wide. Usually passed over by rabbits or deer, they do attract butterflies and Hummingbirds in droves for them to sip the ample nectar.

Planting and Application:

There are many uses for this Veronica in the border garden, sunny garden bed, in containers, or as edging. Fantastic vertical blooms for container gardens so you can keep the radiant white blooms closer. Veronica perennials are wonderfully upright plants that work well in mixed planters as thrillers, in borders as tall edging, or to provide vertical texture among any other kind of formal and informal landscape applications.

It will be showy all summer while being visited by pollinators! Classic border garden, cottage garden, and cut flower garden plants in an unusual white hue that glows in the landscape! You'll love how these dreamy white blooms accentuate a tall vase or bridal-quality bouquet! Don't forget to include these white flowers in your Moon Garden too!

Use First Lady as a mid-level or front-of-the-border vertical height that waves and catches the eye as you scan your garden. Though the fluttering wings butterflies will attract your attention first. Enjoy seeing the blur of wings from Hummingbirds as they stop by for a visit as well! The bright white hue shines in the sun, brightens pink and red hues, or melds with blues and purple. First Lady looks gorgeous mixed with moody blue First Glory, or the luscious pink First Kiss!

• Tall Crystalline White Spires
• Long-Lasting Flowering From The Bottom Up
• Attracts Hummingbirds & Butterflies
• Glossy Deep Green Foliage Mounds
• Vertical Border Gardens, Containers, Cut Flower & Pollinator Gardens

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Perennial Veronica are easy-to-grow and flower best in full sun in well-drained soil locations. Veronica has the most vigor when it gets plenty of water during the growing season to stay perfectly happy in the heat. Top off with 3-4 inches of arborist mulch for moisture retention and insulation. Deadhead the blooms as soon as they fade to encourage new blooms to form. In late autumn, once the foliage dies back after frost, you can prune the mound to remove excess debris.

• Blooms Best in Full Sun
• Well-Drained Enriched Soil
• Regular Moisture Needs
• Deadhead For Rebloom & Prune Mounds Late Autumn
• Seldom Damaged By Deer or Rabbits

The First Lady Veronica brings bright white color & vertical form to the landscape - plus loads of pollinators too! Reserve your hardy perennial flowering plants today at NatureHills.com!