{"title":"Vernonia","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"vernonia-angustifolia-missurica","title":"Vernonia angustifolia × missurica","description":"\u003cp\u003eNative to the central USA, this tall perennial provides not only intense late season colour, but lots of pollen and nectar for visiting bees and butterflies. It is also deer and rabbit resistant due to its bitter taste.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stems are stout and upright, and the leaves are lance shaped and deep green with white hairy undersides. The flowers are born in large clusters of up to 60 on each well branched head and range from rich magenta to deep purple. These disc florets that will keep flowering away until late autumn if dead-headed regularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seed heads are fluffy and will be caught and distributed by the wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproducing by rhizome and seed it will make a good-sized patch, but is not invasive. Seeds will require a period of cold stratification to break their dormancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plant likes rich soils that range from moist but well drained to moisture retentive, and will even tolerate periodic flooding, so is ideal for heavy clay soils that do not dry out and crack in summer. They have no preference for any particular pH so will do well in almost any sunny, clay or clay loam patch. They are perfect for the back of the border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVernonia work well in prairie, cottage, informal, wildlife, bog and waterside gardens and will ensure you have lots of bumblebees and late season butterflies coming to visit. Cut back very tall plants in Spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeight x Spread:  150cm x 120cm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardys Cottage Garden Plants","offers":[{"title":"1 Litre","offer_id":53027225108822,"sku":null,"price":9.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"3 Litre","offer_id":53601029030230,"sku":null,"price":14.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/4928\/0598\/files\/Vernoniaangustifoliaxmissurica-2.jpg?v=1775239230"},{"product_id":"vernonia-noveboracensis-white-lightning","title":"Vernonia noveboracensis 'White Lightning'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis rarely seen in cultivation, herbaceous perennial, deserves to be grown more widely as it produces unusual pollen and nectar rich flowers at the end of the season, when they are really needed. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHailing from the eastern USA, this plant thrives in sun to part shade. Happy to grow in clay soils, as well as any other loamy conditions that are moist but well drained.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe globular flower heads are made up of many creamy white, small tubular flowers that open at the tip into a five-pointed white star. The flowers are produced on tall, branched stems with dark green lanceolate leaves from August to November.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf particular interest to butterflies and moths, this plant will attract all kinds of pollinators. Dead head to produce more flowering stems but leave the last stems in position as they will provide attractive seed heads for the winter. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFully hardy in the UK. this plant will be a welcome addition to cottage and informal gardens as well as wildlife and woodland edge sites. They make excellent cut flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeight x Spread: 180cm x 100cm \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardys Cottage Garden Plants","offers":[{"title":"1 Litre","offer_id":53033275261270,"sku":null,"price":9.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"3 Litre","offer_id":53606219120982,"sku":null,"price":14.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/4928\/0598\/files\/Vernonianoveboracensis_WhiteLightning.jpg?v=1775317865"},{"product_id":"vernonia-lettermannii","title":"Vernonia lettermannii","description":"\u003cp\u003eDistinguished from other forms of \u003cem\u003eVernonia \u003c\/em\u003eby its narrow, fine foliage, \u003cem\u003eV. lettermannii\u003c\/em\u003e is also smaller in scale and more rounded due to the number of stems produced in each clump.  The flowers, however, conform with others in the Genus with tight thistle-like deep violet-purple nectar-rich flowers held in thick clusters at the ends of the willowy stems. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppearing in August, they deliver a rich injection of colour to the autumn garden, the blooms often lasting into early October before forming fuzzing soft brown seedheads, a source of food for birds in the winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHailing from North America, where it is found on rocky plains it is tough, robust and very useful.  Perfect for a naturalistic prairie style garden mixed with ornamental grasses, it has also become a stalwart of contemporary planting schemes.  Thriving in sun and a reasonable soil, once established it can tolerate short periods of drought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeight x Spread: 75cm x 50cm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardys Cottage Garden Plants","offers":[{"title":"1 Litre","offer_id":53046067626326,"sku":null,"price":9.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"3 Litre","offer_id":53600972996950,"sku":null,"price":14.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/4928\/0598\/files\/Vernonialettermannii_1of1.jpg?v=1775465614"}],"url":"https:\/\/hardysplants.co.uk\/collections\/vernonia.oembed","provider":"Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants","version":"1.0","type":"link"}