Top Veronicas

Written on March 10, 2010 at 7:37 am , by Justin W. Hancock

Veronica is one of the most versatile plants of the garden. Low-growing selections are wonderful spring-blooming gardeners and mid-sized varieties are great for adding splashes of blue to the summer garden.

There’s a fairly large number of veronicas to choose from, so I was delighted yesterday when I received an e-mail notice that the Chicago Botanic Garden did a 10-year study on veronica cultivars and picked the best.

Among the standouts were ‘Blue Reflection’, a lovely groundcover type; pink-flowering ‘Mrs. Holt’; and charming lavender-purple ‘Baby Doll’.

If you’re interested in the whole report, download it here.