SINCE 1828
verbena
noun
ver·be·na
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Definition of verbena
: vervain
especially
: any of numerous garden vervains of hybrid origin widely grown for their showy spikes of white, pink, red, or blue flowers which are borne in profusion over a long season — compare lemon verbena
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Their signature cocktail is the Lemonnana: Jim Beam, muddled mint, fresh lemon, and verbena. — Elise Taylor, Vogue, "This Is the Best Restaurant in America," 10 May 2019 Good fillers include salvias, verbenas, ornamental peppers, and wax begonias, as well as foliage plants like parsley or licorice plants. — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, "Everything You Need to Know About Container Gardening," 13 Aug. 2018 Good fillers include salvias, verbenas, ornamental peppers, and wax begonias, as well as foliage plants like parsley or licorice plants. — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, "Everything You Need to Know About Container Gardening," 13 Aug. 2018 Good fillers include salvias, verbenas, ornamental peppers, and wax begonias, as well as foliage plants like parsley or licorice plants. — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, "Everything You Need to Know About Container Gardening," 13 Aug. 2018 Transplant petunias, marigolds and perennial flowers such as astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia and verbena. — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, "Want summer veggies? Get to work | The Sacramento Bee," 5 May 2018 Create a pastel combination with lamb's ears (Stachys byzantina), verbenas, pink bee balms (Monarda), calamints (Calamintha), and cranesbills (Geranium) backed with ornamental grasses. — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, "How to Grow Gorgeous Echinacea in Your Garden," 29 May 2018 Other perennials to set out include verbena, coreopsis, coneflower and astilbe. — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, "Want summer veggies? Get to work | The Sacramento Bee," 5 May 2018 Petunias, verbena, and calibrachoa all have bloomed their little hearts out and are now full of dead flowers or seed heads. — Sally Mccabe, Philly.com, "June 29-July 5: In the garden, it's time to…," 29 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'verbena.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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