🌿 Product Details
- Latin Name: Vernonia noveboracensis
- 📏 Current Size: Approx 1ft
- 🌱 Mature Size: Height: 4-6 feet | Width: 2-3 feet
- ☀️ Light: Full Sun
- 🧊 Hardiness Zone: 09-Apr
- 🍃 Foliage Colour: Green
- 🌸 Bloom Colour: Purple
- 🗓️ Bloom Period: Late summer to fall
- 🪴 Planting Instructions: Dig a hole slightly wider than the pot, keeping the top of the root ball level with the surrounding soil. Loosen circling roots before planting, backfill with native soil amended with compost, then water thoroughly to settle. Space plants about 2-3 feet apart and keep well watered through the first full season while roots establish. Plant in full sun.
- 💧 Care & Watering: Water moderate: about 2.5 cm of water per week in the growing season. Mulch to conserve moisture and moderate soil temperature, and feed with a balanced slow-release fertilizer in early spring. Cut back to the ground in late fall or early spring; deadhead spent blooms through the season to encourage rebloom.