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Veronica spicata 'Gilles van Hees' - SPIKE SPEEDWELL 'GILLES VAN HEES'
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Small perennial for the front of sunny bed, with pink spikes in June/July. 'Gilles van Hees' got 4.5 stars out of 5 stars in Chicago Botanic Garden trials.
Grows into small, dense clumps, usually 6-8" (up to 10" tall in rich soil) x 10-12" wide. Can start flower at the end of May, deadheading will encourage more blooms.
Full sun or half sun is the best, average or drained soils, with medium (average) moisture to medium-dry. It prefers soils with some sand or fine gravel. On the right place it is longer-lived plant, but we recommend to divide it after 4-5 years to renew the clumps.
Hardy in zones 4 to 8.
It is said that it attracts butterflies, pollinators and even hummingbirds, but we haven't observed it. But deer and rabbits avoid it. Black walnut and drought tolerant perennial.
For it's size it is suitable for smaller beds, or edge of the bed, bigger container or trough, crevice gardens or rock gardens. don't combine with too big or spreading plants that could smother it.
Combine with shorter perennials or cultivars of Achillea, Agastache, Calamintha, Coreopsis, Dracocephalum, shorter cultivars of Echinacea, Geranium (G. sanquineum, G. dalmaticum, G. x cantabrigiense, G. renardii, G. cinereum), Helianthus 'Low Down' , Iris x barbata 'Nana' or Iris tectorum, Liatris microcephalla or 'Kobold', Paeonia, Penstemon, shorter cultivars of Nepeta, Perovskia, Phlox subulata, Phlox nivea, Ruellia humilis, Scabiosa columbaria, Sedum, Sisyrinchium or Stokesia and grasses like Sporobolus heterolepis 'Tara', Bouteloua gracilis, Koleria cristata or Muhlenbergia 'Undaunted' .
Pot size : square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Picture copyright : US Perennials nursery
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Veronica spicata 'Gilles van Hees' - SPIKE SPEEDWELL 'GILLES VAN HEES'
$8.49
Small perennial for the front of sunny bed, with pink spikes in June/July. 'Gilles van Hees' got 4.5 stars out of 5 stars in Chicago Botanic Garden trials.
Grows into small, dense clumps, usually 6-8" (up to 10" tall in rich soil) x 10-12" wide. Can start flower at the end of May, deadheading will encourage more blooms.
Full sun or half sun is the best, average or drained soils, with medium (average) moisture to medium-dry. It prefers soils with some sand or fine gravel. On the right place it is longer-lived plant, but we recommend to divide it after 4-5 years to renew the clumps.
Hardy in zones 4 to 8.
It is said that it attracts butterflies, pollinators and even hummingbirds, but we haven't observed it. But deer and rabbits avoid it. Black walnut and drought tolerant perennial.
For it's size it is suitable for smaller beds, or edge of the bed, bigger container or trough, crevice gardens or rock gardens. don't combine with too big or spreading plants that could smother it.
Combine with shorter perennials or cultivars of Achillea, Agastache, Calamintha, Coreopsis, Dracocephalum, shorter cultivars of Echinacea, Geranium (G. sanquineum, G. dalmaticum, G. x cantabrigiense, G. renardii, G. cinereum), Helianthus 'Low Down' , Iris x barbata 'Nana' or Iris tectorum, Liatris microcephalla or 'Kobold', Paeonia, Penstemon, shorter cultivars of Nepeta, Perovskia, Phlox subulata, Phlox nivea, Ruellia humilis, Scabiosa columbaria, Sedum, Sisyrinchium or Stokesia and grasses like Sporobolus heterolepis 'Tara', Bouteloua gracilis, Koleria cristata or Muhlenbergia 'Undaunted' .
Pot size : square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Picture copyright : US Perennials nursery
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Giles van hees
Very nice plants and packaged very well will definitely order from here again