Verbena Bonariensis May 18, 2014

This is one of my favorite plants.  They grow 6 feet tall and sway in the wind.  The color is unusual and vivid, sort of electric.  Each of the purple pom poms is a seed head of a billion seeds the size of dust.  They spring up everywhere.  They are very tender perennials.  I have had some live through the winter, but it doesn't really matter if they survive the winter since you get so many volunteers the following spring.