Blue Vervain | Verbena hastata shrub pond margins

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sweeter than grocery kiwi

The berries are large

and deeply flavored with the bright aromatic quality that makes a homegrown raspberry so far superior to anything from a grocery store

while traditional herbalists valued it for supporting digestion and easing colds

Blue Vervain | Verbena hastata shrub pond marginsThe genus name says it all verbena is Latin for "sacred plant," and blue vervain has been used ceremonially and medicinally across Native American traditions and European herbalism for centuries. Tall, slender spikes of blue violet flowers rise 35 feet and bloom from the bottom up through mid summer into fall, long after most perennials have checked out. It's striking in the landscape that vertical accent and that color are genuinely hard to replicate